Page 3: Historical Events In December - 24
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1867 Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian historian/diplomat. 

1868 Emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion (1894-21) 

1869 Henriette GA Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet (Women in Forest) 

1869 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55. 

1870 Rosario Scalero, composer. 

1871 Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening 

1871 Verdi's 'Aida' performed for the inaugural time, in Cairo. 

1871 Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (A Chique Little Boy) 

1874 Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875 

1879 Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych, composer. 

1881 Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer 

1884 Austria-Hungary admits King Leopold II's Congo Free State 

1885 Arthur Dolphin, cricketer (Yorkshire and England keeper, later Test ump). 

1885 Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85 

1887 Louis Jouvet, Crozon France, actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise). 

1888 Michael Curtiz, American director is born 

1889 Bicycle with a back-pedal brake patented. 

1889 Daniel Stover and William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake 

1889 Vladimir Sokoloff, Moscow Russia, actor (Road to Morocco) 

1893 Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor 

1893 Carl Brisson, Copenhagen Denmark, actor (Murder at the Vanities) 

1894 Scheveningse fishing boats destroyed by storm 

1894 Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot 

1898 Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto," premieres in Amsterdam. 

1898 Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer, dies at 41 

1900 Herman Heijermans' "Hope of Blessing" premieres in Amsterdam 

1904 German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children 

1904 Daniel K Womack, singer/guitarist 

1904 Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor, dies at 55. 

1905 Howard Hughes born 

1905 Howard Hughes, American tycoon is born 

1905 Anna "Ans" van Dike ("the Young"), Jewish nazi collaborator. 

1906 Reginald A Fessenden became inaugural to broadcast music over radio (Mass) 

1906 Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass). 

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