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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1879 Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on indians citizen rights begins. 
1879 Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies
1880 An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100
1881 Natural History Museum of South Kensington England opens.
1881 Hermann KJ Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart)
1882 Leopold Stokowski, British composer is born.
1882 Leopold Stokowski, London England, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony).
1883 Agnes Tyrrell, composer, dies at 36
1884 Magda Janssens, Flemish/Neth actress/acting teacher (Maria Stuart).
1888 Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, skier
1889 In Germany inaugural distant earthquake recorded. Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz made the inaugural known recordings of a distant earthquake
1889 In Japan a 7+ quake occured near east coast of Honshu, Japan. Teleseism inaugural identified on a seismogram. The instruments were horizontal pendulums, designed by Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz to measure slight changes in the direction of the vertical. Two of these pendulums, located in Potsdam and Wilhelmshaven, recorded a large earthquake on April 17, 1889. The earthquake had been felt in Japan about an hour before it was recorded in Germany.
1889 Jessie Street, Austrialian pro womans/aborigine rights fighter.
1890 NY Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton
1890 James Rennie, Toronto Ontario, actor (Lash, Little Damozel)
1895 New York State passed an act that established free public baths! They were to be open 14 hours a day and provide hot and cold water
1895 Anton F Pieck, Dutch illustrator (Efteling, Kaatsheuvel) [or April 19]
1896 C Eugene Wegmann, Swiss geologist (Le Jura plisse).
1897 Pedro Regas, actor (Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour) [or Apr 12]
1898 Lord Leatherland, British journalist/Labour peer.
1898 Gustave Moureau, painter, dies.
1899 John McGraw, at 36, managerial debut as Oriole manager.
1900 Louise Tazewell, [Louise Skiller Tazewell], entertainer
1902 Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
1903 Leonid Kinskey, St Petersburg Russia, actor (Casablanca)
1904 L'Humanité, under Jean Jaurès begins publishing
1906 An earthquake, followed by fire, destroys most of San Francisco, killing 3000 people.
1906 SF earthquake and fire results in the deaths of nearly 4000 and destroys 75% of the city
1906 The Great San Francisco Earthquake occurred at 5 13 a.m
1906 8.25 earthquake shakes SF Calif
1906 Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poetess (Life with JC Bloem)
1906 The Great San Francisco Earthquake occurred at 5:13 a.m
1907 Fairmont Hotel opens.
1907 Augustus Thomas' "Witching Hour," premieres in NYC.
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