473 Historic Events for February 20
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| 1887 |
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Germany, Austria-Hungary and France end Triple Alliance
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| 1887 |
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1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)
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| 1888 |
Birth |
Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher
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| 1888 |
Birth |
Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)
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| 1889 |
Birth |
Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer
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| 1890 |
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Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
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| 1892 |
Death |
Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74
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| 1893 |
Birth |
Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)
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| 1895 |
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Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
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| 1895 |
Death |
Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77
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| 1895 |
Birth |
Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping)
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| 1896 |
Birth |
Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist
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| 1897 |
Birth |
Ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)
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| 1898 |
Birth |
Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari)
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| 1899 |
Birth |
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways)
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| 1899 |
Birth |
Leon Woizikowski, Polish dancer/ballet master (Ballets Russes)
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| 1899 |
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Ill Tel and Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
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| 1900 |
Birth |
Antonio Veretti, composer
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| 1900 |
Birth |
Graham Spry, St Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer
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| 1900 |
Birth |
Jean Negulesco
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| 1901 |
Birth |
Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher (Daily Mirror)
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| 1901 |
Birth |
Henry Eyring, Mexican/US chemist
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| 1901 |
Birth |
Ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54)
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| 1901 |
Birth |
Louis I Kahn, Estonia, architect (Bryn Mawr dormitory) [or Dec 20]
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| 1901 |
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1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
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