Historical Events In February - 20

1865  On this day in history m I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school   

1869  On February - 20 tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis   

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

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  U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF) on this day in history.   

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

1876  Fyodor Akimenko, composer on this day in history.   

1877  On February - 20 first cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY   

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

1881  On February - 20 pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)   

1883  On this day in history shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)   

1886  On this day in history bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)   

1887  On February - 20 germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance   

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

1887  On February - 20 david McKinley Williams, composer   

1888  Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest) on this day in history.   

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  Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father) on February - 20.   

1895  On this day in history abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C.   

1895  Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO on February - 20.   

1895  Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo on February - 20.   

1895  Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping) on February - 20.   

1895  Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1896  On February - 20 henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist   

1897  Ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history 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  Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories) was born on February - 20.   

1633  Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher was born on February - 20.   

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

1734  On February - 20 birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer   

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

1054  On February - 20 yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies   

1154  Death of Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett on this day in history.   

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  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 February - 20.   

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

1524  On February - 20 death of tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya