Page 4: Historical Events In February - 20

1865  On February - 20 m I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school   

1869  Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis on this day in history.   

1869  On this day in history tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis   

1870  Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen) on February - 20.   

1872  Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin on this day in history.   

1872  Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags on this day in history.   

1872  Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City on this day in history.   

1872  Silas Noble &JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine on this day in history.   

1873  On February - 20 u of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)   

1874  Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star on this day in history.   

1876  On February - 20 fyodor Akimenko, composer   

1877  On this day in history first cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY   

1877  1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky on this day in history.   

1881  Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo) on this day in history.   

1883  Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night) on this day in history.   

1886  Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) on February - 20.   

1887  On this day in history germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance   

1887  On February - 20 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)   

1887  David McKinley Williams, composer on February - 20.   

1888  Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest) on February - 20.   

1889  On this day in history levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer   

1890  On February - 20 amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire   

1892  Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1893  On this day in history russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)   

1895  On February - 20 abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C.   

1895  Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO on this day in history.   

1895  On February - 20 congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo   

1895  Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping) on this day in history.   

1895  On this day in history frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77   

1896  On this day in history henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist   

1897  On February - 20 ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)   

1898  The birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer on this day in history.   

1899  Illinois Tel &Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system on February - 20.   

1899  Ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system on this day in history.   

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1494  On February - 20 birth of johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)   

1507  On this day in history birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)   

1523  On February - 20 birth of jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)   

1632  On February - 20 birth of thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)   

1633  On February - 20 birth of jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher   

1656  On February - 20 birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised   

1734  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer was born on this day in history.   

1745  Johann Peter Salomon, composer was born on February - 20.   

1054  Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies on this day in history.   

1154  Death of Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett on February - 20.   

1171  On February - 20 death of conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)   

1194  On February - 20 tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies   

1258  Death of Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad on this day in history.   

1408  Death of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342) on February - 20.   

1431  On this day in history martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies   

1524  Death of Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya on this day in history.