473 Historic Events for February 20
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| 1854 |
Birth |
Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director (Youth)
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| 1855 |
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Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies
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| 1856 |
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John Rutledge, Liverpool-NY steamer, hits iceberg; many die
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| 1860 |
Death |
Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69
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| 1861 |
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Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm
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| 1861 |
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Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms
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| 1861 |
Birth |
Nicolaas van Meeteren, Cura‡ao, folklorist
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| 1864 |
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Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
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| 1865 |
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M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school
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| 1869 |
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Tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
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| 1870 |
Birth |
Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)
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| 1872 |
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Silas Noble and JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
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| 1872 |
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Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
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| 1872 |
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Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
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| 1872 |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art opens (NYC)
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| 1873 |
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U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)
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| 1874 |
Birth |
Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star
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| 1876 |
Birth |
Fyodor Akimenko, composer
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| 1877 |
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1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
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| 1877 |
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International Association (minor baseball league) organizes
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| 1881 |
Birth |
Pedro Mu¤oz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)
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| 1883 |
Birth |
Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)
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| 1886 |
Birth |
Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)
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| 1887 |
Birth |
David McKinley Williams, composer
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| 1887 |
Birth |
Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel)
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