Page 3: Historical Events In August - 24
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1821 New Mexico gains its independence from Spain 

1821 Emmanuele Muzio, composer 

1826 Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens. 

1827 Walter Husted Stevens, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1867. 

1828 Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea 

1828 George Hume "Maryland" Steuart, Brig General (Confederate Army) 

1831 John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle. 

1833 HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina. 

1833 Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist, dies at 65 

1837 Theodore Dubois, composer 

1839 Eduard Napravnik, composer. 

1840 Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer, dies at 89. 

1841 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer, dies at 36. 

1842 Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market). 

1847 Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre" 

1853 The inaugural potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY) 

1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs NY) 

1854 National emigration convention meets in Cleveland. 

1854 Nikolay Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer. 

1856 Felix Mottl, composer. 

1857 Thirty-one people die when ship Lady Bird collides with another vessel off the State of Victoria in Australia 

1857 The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. 

1858 Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning. 

1865 Ferdinand I VAM, king of Romania 

1869 Waffle iron invented. 

1869 Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron 

1870 The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion. 

1872 Sir Max Beerbohm, British writer and caricaturist is born 

1872 Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review) 

1876 Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed 

1879 Rentaro Taki, composer 

1880 Miles W L Killearn of Killearn, Scotish baron/diplomat 

1886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty ships. 

1888 Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies 

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