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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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02/20/1888
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Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1888
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Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher
Type: Birth
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02/20/1889
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Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer
Type: Birth
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02/20/1890
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Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
Type: Event
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02/20/1892
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Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74
Type: Death
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02/20/1893
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Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1895
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Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
Type: Event
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02/20/1895
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Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1895
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Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77
Type: Death
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02/20/1896
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Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist
Type: Birth
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02/20/1897
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Ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1898
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Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1899
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Ill Tel and Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
Type: Event
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02/20/1899
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1899
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Leon Woizikowski, Polish dancer/ballet master (Ballets Russes)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1900
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Antonio Veretti, composer
Type: Birth
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02/20/1900
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Graham Spry, St Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer
Type: Birth
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02/20/1900
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Jean Negulesco
Type: Birth
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02/20/1901
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1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
Type: Event
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02/20/1901
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Ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1901
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Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher (Daily Mirror)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1901
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Henry Eyring, Mexican/US chemist
Type: Birth
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02/20/1901
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Louis I Kahn, Estonia, architect (Bryn Mawr dormitory) [or Dec 20]
Type: Birth
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02/20/1901
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Ren‚ Jules Dubos, France, US microbiologist/author (Health and Disease)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1902
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Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths, SF
Type: Event
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02/20/1902
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Ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1903
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Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge
Type: Event
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02/20/1903
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Ella Maillart, explorer
Type: Birth
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02/20/1903
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Karel Janacek, composer
Type: Birth
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02/20/1903
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Pierre Charles, Belgian heavyweight boxer
Type: Birth
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02/20/1904
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Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1904
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Armin Loos, composer
Type: Birth
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02/20/1904
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Bramwell Fletcher, Yorkshire England, actor (White Cargo, Mummy)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1904
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Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83
Type: Death
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02/20/1905
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Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1907
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Malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1907
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Nadine Conner, Calif, soprano (Carmen, Pamina-Magic Flute)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1907
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Owain Jenkins, company director
Type: Birth
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02/20/1907
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[Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54
Type: Death
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02/20/1908
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Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1908
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Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix
Type: Birth
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02/20/1910
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Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker
Type: Birth
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02/20/1910
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Millicent Fenwick, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1910
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Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered
Type: Death
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02/20/1911
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Margot Grahame
Type: Birth
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02/20/1911
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Robert Guyn McBride, Tucson Arizona, composer (Mexican Rhapsody)
Type: Birth
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02/20/1911
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Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56
Type: Death
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02/20/1911
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Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer, dies at 76
Type: Death
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