Historical Events In February - 20
Saturday, 07 September 2024
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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