Page 4: 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  On this day in history tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis   

1870  Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen) on February - 20.   

1872  On this day in history hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin   

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 February - 20.   

1872  Silas Noble &JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine on February - 20.   

1873  U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF) on this day in history.   

1874  On this day in history mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star   

1876  On this day in history fyodor Akimenko, composer   

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

1883  Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night) on February - 20.   

1886  On February - 20 bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)   

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

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

1887  On February - 20 david McKinley Williams, composer   

1888  On this day in history georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)   

1889  Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer on February - 20.   

1890  Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire on February - 20.   

1892  Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1893  On this day in history russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)   

1895  Abolitionist Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, D.C on February - 20.   

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 February - 20.   

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  On February - 20 ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)   

1898  The birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer on February - 20.   

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

1899  On February - 20 ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system   

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

1507  Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II) was born on this day in history.   

1523  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher   

1656  On February - 20 birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised   

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

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

1194  Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies on February - 20.   

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 this day in history.   

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.