Historical Events In February - 20

1865  M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school on this day in history.   

1869  On this day in history 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  On this day in history metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.   

1872  On this day in history silas Noble &JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine   

1873  On this day in history u of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)   

1874  Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star on February - 20.   

1876  On this day in history 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  On this day in history pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)   

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

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

1887  Germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance on February - 20.   

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

1887  David McKinley Williams, composer on this day in history.   

1888  On February - 20 georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)   

1889  On February - 20 levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer   

1890  On February - 20 amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire   

1892  On this day in history hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74   

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

1895  On February - 20 freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping)   

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

1896  Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist on February - 20.   

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 February - 20.   

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1494  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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 this day in history birth of jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher   

1656  On this day in history birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised   

1734  On this day in history birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer   

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

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

1154  On this day in history death of saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett   

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

1194  Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies on this day in history.   

1258  On February - 20 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  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.