Page 5: Historical Events In February - 20

1899  Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways) on this day in history.   

1900  Antonio Veretti, composer on February - 20.   

1901  First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes on February - 20.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1902  On this day in history heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF   

1902  On this day in history ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award)   

1903  Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge on this day in history.   

1903  Ella Maillart, explorer on February - 20.   

1904  On this day in history the birth of Alexei Kosygin, Former Prime Minister of the USSR   

1904  Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80) on this day in history.   

1904  Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1905  On this day in history jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat)   

1905  On February - 20 jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain   

1907  On this day in history malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way)   

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

1908  On February - 20 grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1)   

1909  On this day in history publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.   

1910  Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker on this day in history.   

1910  On February - 20 boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered   

1911  On February - 20 margot Grahame   

1911  On this day in history alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56   

1912  Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1915  On this day in history panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco   

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

1915  Philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar) on February - 20.   

1916  On February - 20 jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners)   

1916  Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71 on February - 20.   

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  On February - 20 birth of johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)   

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

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

1632  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1734  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

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  Death of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342) on this day in history.   

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 February - 20.