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 this day in history.   

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

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 February - 20.   

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

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

1903  On this day in history nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge   

1903  Ella Maillart, explorer on this day in history.   

1904  The birth of Alexei Kosygin, Former Prime Minister of the USSR on this day in history.   

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

1904  Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83 on February - 20.   

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

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

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

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  Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro on February - 20.   

1910  On this day in history julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker   

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

1911  Margot Grahame on this day in history.   

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 February - 20.   

1913  King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra on this day in history.   

1913  Jozef Kresanek, composer on this day in history.   

1914  John Daly, S Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line) on this day in history.   

1915  Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco on this day in history.   

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 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 February - 20.   

1917  On this day in history frederick Page, CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group)   

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1494  On this day in history birth of johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)   

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

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 this day in history.   

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 February - 20.   

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

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  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 February - 20 martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies   

1524  Death of Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya on this day in history.