Page 5: Historical Events In February - 20

1899  On February - 20 cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways)   

1900  Antonio Veretti, composer on February - 20.   

1901  First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes on this day in history.   

1901  On this day in history 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes   

1901  Ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54) on this day in history.   

1902  Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks &damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco on February - 20.   

1902  On February - 20 heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF   

1902  On February - 20 ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award)   

1903  On February - 20 nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge   

1903  On February - 20 ella Maillart, explorer   

1904  On February - 20 the birth of Alexei Kosygin, Former Prime Minister of the USSR   

1904  On this day in history aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80)   

1904  On this day in history gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83   

1905  On February - 20 jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat)   

1905  On this day in history jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain   

1907  Malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way) on February - 20.   

1907  [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54 on February - 20.   

1908  Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1) on February - 20.   

1909  On February - 20 publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.   

1910  Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker on February - 20.   

1910  On this day in history boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered   

1911  Margot Grahame on February - 20.   

1911  On February - 20 alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56   

1912  Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture on February - 20.   

1913  On February - 20 king O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.   

1913  On this day in history jozef Kresanek, composer   

1914  John Daly, S Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line) on February - 20.   

1915  Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco on February - 20.   

1915  Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF on February - 20.   

1915  On February - 20 philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar)   

1916  On this day in history jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners)   

1916  Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1917  Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die on this day in history.   

1917  Frederick Page, CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group) on this day in history.   

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1494  Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on this day in history.   

1507  Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II) was born on February - 20.   

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

1632  Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories) was born on this day in history.   

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  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer was born on this day in history.   

1745  On this day in history birth of johann Peter Salomon, composer   

1054  Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies on this day in history.   

1154  On February - 20 death of saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett   

1171  Death of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138) on February - 20.   

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  On this day in history 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 this day in history.