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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1906 Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game 
1906 Countess of Longford, biographer/historian.
1907 Fred MacMurray, Kankakee Ill, actor (Caine Mutiny, My 3 Sons).
1908 Fred MacMurray, American actor is born.
1908 Leonor Fini, painter.
1909 Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1909 Barry Appleby, cartoonist.
1910 Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11
1910 Donald Bisset, Dutch children book writer/actor (Battle of the Sexes).
1910 Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Napoleon), dies at 57
1912 St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1.
1912 Edward M Purcell, US physicist (Nobel 1952).
1913 US Navy tests Sperry gyroscopic stabilizer (automatic pilot).
1913 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled.
1913 Allan David, actor/director/producer (Cry of the Children)
1914 Battle of Tannenberg, one of history's great military disasters, ends after the Russian Second Army under Samsonov is enveloped and crushed by the Germans, losing 30000 men; Samsonov committed suicide.
1914 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
1914 Julie Bishop, Denver CO, actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat).
1914 Adrian H Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26
1915 Liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor.
1916 Paul Von Hindenburg is recorded as becoming chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
1916 Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
1916 John Thoday, geneticist
1917 Denis Healey, English politician.
1917 Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies
1918 Czechoslovakia forms independence republic.
1918 Ted Williams, American baseball player, last player in MLB to bat over .400 in a single season (Red Sox, AL MVP '46, '49; Trip Crown '42, '47).
1919 Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin
1919 Kitty Wells, Nashville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1919 Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies.
1920 Ben Cami, Flemish writer/poet (Rose from Mud)
1922 Tiger Rag, still a familiar ragtime tune, is recorded by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
1922 Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922.
1922 Regina Resnik, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Sieglinde-Bayreuth).
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