Page 4: 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  On this day in history pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)   

1872  Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin on February - 20.   

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  U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF) on February - 20.   

1874  On February - 20 mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star   

1876  Fyodor Akimenko, composer on February - 20.   

1877  On this day in history first cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY   

1877  On February - 20 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky   

1881  Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo) on this day in history.   

1883  Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night) on this day in history.   

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

1887  Germany, Austria-Hungary &France end Triple Alliance on this day in history.   

1887  On this day in history 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)   

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 this day in history amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire   

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

1893  Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father) on this day in history.   

1895  On February - 20 abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C.   

1895  On February - 20 congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO   

1895  Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo on this day in history.   

1895  Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping) on this day in history.   

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 February - 20.   

1899  On this day in history illinois Tel &Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system   

1899  Ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system on this day in history.   

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1494  Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on February - 20.   

1507  On this day in history birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)   

1523  Jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers) was born on February - 20.   

1632  On February - 20 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 February - 20.   

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

1745  On February - 20 birth of johann Peter Salomon, composer   

1054  On this day in history yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies   

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

1171  On this day in history death of conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)   

1194  On this day in history tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies   

1258  Death of Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad on February - 20.   

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 this day in history.   

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