Page 5: 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  First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes on February - 20.   

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

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

1902  Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks &damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco on February - 20.   

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

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

1903  Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge on this day in history.   

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  Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80) on February - 20.   

1904  On this day in history gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83   

1905  Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat) on this day in history.   

1905  On this day in history jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain   

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  Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1) on this day in history.   

1909  Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro on February - 20.   

1910  Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker on February - 20.   

1910  Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered on February - 20.   

1911  On this day in history margot Grahame   

1911  On February - 20 alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56   

1912  Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture on this day in history.   

1913  King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra on February - 20.   

1913  On February - 20 jozef Kresanek, composer   

1914  On this day in history john Daly, S Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line)   

1915  On this day in history panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco   

1915  On this day in history panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF   

1915  On this day in history philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar)   

1916  On this day in history jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners)   

1916  Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

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

1917  On February - 20 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 this day in history 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 this day in history birth of jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher   

1656  Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on February - 20.   

1734  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer was born on February - 20.   

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

1054  Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies on February - 20.   

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  Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies on February - 20.   

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

1408  On February - 20 death of henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)   

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

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