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02/20/1809
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Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
Type: Birth
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02/20/1809
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Henry Walton Wessells, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
Type: Birth
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02/20/1809
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Supreme Court rules federal govt power greater than any state
Type: Event
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02/20/1810
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Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer, dies at 57
Type: Death
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02/20/1810
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Andreas Hofer, milt leader (fought Napoleon's France), executed at 42
Type: Death
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02/20/1811
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Austria declares bankruptcy
Type: Event
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02/20/1816
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Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer
Type: Birth
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02/20/1816
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Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
Type: Event
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02/20/1817
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Martin de Ron, composer, dies at 27
Type: Death
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02/20/1820
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Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
Type: Birth
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02/20/1823
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English Capt James Weddell reaches 74ø 15' S, 1520 km from S pole
Type: Event
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02/20/1827
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Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
Type: Birth
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02/20/1831
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Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
Type: Event
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02/20/1832
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Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean
Type: Event
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02/20/1835
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Concepci¢n, Chile destroyed by earthquake; 5,000 die
Type: Event
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02/20/1835
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Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist
Type: Birth
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02/20/1838
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James Barbour Terrill, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Type: Birth
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02/20/1839
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Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
Type: Event
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02/20/1844
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Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1844
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Mih ly von Munk csy, [Michael von Lieb], Hungarian painter
Type: Birth
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02/20/1845
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Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer, dies at 57
Type: Death
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02/20/1846
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British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
Type: Event
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02/20/1848
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[Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of Neth/gen-maj, dies at 29
Type: Death
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02/20/1851
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Josef Alois Ladurner, composer, dies at 81
Type: Death
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02/20/1852
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Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russian author (Tjoma Kartashov)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1854
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Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director (Youth)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1855
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Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies
Type: Death
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02/20/1856
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John Rutledge, Liverpool-NY steamer, hits iceberg; many die
Type: Event
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02/20/1860
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Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69
Type: Death
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02/20/1861
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Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm
Type: Event
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02/20/1861
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Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms
Type: Event
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02/20/1861
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Nicolaas van Meeteren, Cura‡ao, folklorist
Type: Birth
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02/20/1864
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Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
Type: Event
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02/20/1865
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M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school
Type: Event
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02/20/1869
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Tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
Type: Event
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02/20/1870
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Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1872
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Silas Noble and JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
Type: Event
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02/20/1872
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Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
Type: Event
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02/20/1872
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Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
Type: Event
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02/20/1872
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Metropolitan Museum of Art opens (NYC)
Type: Event
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02/20/1873
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U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)
Type: Event
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02/20/1874
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Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star
Type: Birth
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02/20/1876
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Fyodor Akimenko, composer
Type: Birth
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02/20/1877
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1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
Type: Event
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02/20/1877
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International Association (minor baseball league) organizes
Type: Event
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02/20/1881
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Pedro Mu¤oz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1883
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Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1886
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Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1887
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David McKinley Williams, composer
Type: Birth
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02/20/1887
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Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel)
Type: Birth
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