Historical Events In February - 20

1899  On this day in history cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways)   

1900  On this day in history antonio Veretti, composer   

1901  On February - 20 first territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes   

1901  On February - 20 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes   

1901  On February - 20 ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54)   

1902  On this day in history heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks &damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco   

1902  Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF on this day in history.   

1902  On February - 20 ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award)   

1903  On this day in history nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge   

1903  Ella Maillart, explorer on this day in history.   

1904  The birth of Alexei Kosygin, Former Prime Minister of the USSR on this day in history.   

1904  On February - 20 aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80)   

1904  Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83 on February - 20.   

1905  On February - 20 jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat)   

1905  Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain on February - 20.   

1907  Malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way) on February - 20.   

1907  On February - 20 [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54   

1908  On this day in history grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1)   

1909  On February - 20 publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.   

1910  On February - 20 julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker   

1910  On this day in history boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered   

1911  On February - 20 margot Grahame   

1911  Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1912  On February - 20 argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture   

1913  On this day in history king O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.   

1913  Jozef Kresanek, composer on this day in history.   

1914  On February - 20 john Daly, S Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line)   

1915  Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco on this day in history.   

1915  On February - 20 panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF   

1915  Philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar) on this day in history.   

1916  On February - 20 jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners)   

1916  Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71 on February - 20.   

1917  Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die on this day in history.   

1917  On this day in history frederick Page, CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group)   

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

1507  Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II) was born on February - 20.   

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

1632  On this day in history 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  Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on this day in history.   

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

1745  Johann Peter Salomon, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1154  On February - 20 death of saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett   

1171  Death of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138) on this day in history.   

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

1258  On this day in history death of al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad   

1408  Death of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342) on this day in history.   

1431  Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies on February - 20.   

1524  Death of Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya on February - 20.