Page 5: Historical Events In February - 26

1915  Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poetess (That Woman and Other Verses)   

1916  Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930   

1916  Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract.   

1916  Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia   

1916  Mordecai Seter, composer.   

1917  inaugural Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)   

1917  1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands).   

1917  Robert Taft Jr, (Sen-R-Oh)   

1918  Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse and burn, killing 604.   

1918  Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe, baseball pitcher (Bkln Dodgers).   

1919  Acadia National Park established (as Lafayette National Park), Maine   

1919  Grand Canyon National Park is established.   

1919  Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine   

1919  Beppie Nooij, actress/director (Bluejackets-Rooie Sien).   

1920  Ludwig Rubiner, writer, dies at 38.   

1921  Carl Menger, Austrian economist, dies at 81   

1923  Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts and black-shirts)   

1924  Trial against Hitler in Munich begins   

1925  Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government   

1925  In this year, Oregon formally adopts its state flag.   

1925  Jihad-Saint war against Turkish govt.   

1926  Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street   

1926  Frederik Pijper, Dut vicar/church historian (Monasteries), dies at 67   

1928  Fats Domino, American singer is born   

1929  Grand Teton National Park is established.   

1929  Pres Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park   

1930  The inaugural red and green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)   

1930  West Indies make inaugural Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England   

1930  "Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater   

1930  Raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish Cardinal, dies at 64.   

1931  Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83.   

1933  Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field   

1933  Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell   

1933  Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor, dies at 74.   

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1361  On this day in history birth of wenceslas of Bohemia, Holy Roman Catholic German emperor (1378-1400)   

1587  Stefano Landi, Italian composer (d. 1639) was born on this day in history.   

1588  On this day in history birth of nicolaus Erich, composer   

1671  On February - 26 birth of anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713)   

1672  Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757) was born on February - 26.   

1675  On this day in history birth of johann Philipp Treiber, composer   

1677  Nicola Fago, composer was born on this day in history.   

1686  Godefroi L Count d'Estrades, French diplomat was born on this day in history.   

1076  Death of Godfried III, with the Hump, duke of Neth-Lutherian, murdered on February - 26.   

1154  Rogier II Guiscard, King of Sicily (1101-54), dies at 60 on February - 26.   

1200  Death of Symeon, former Serbian ruler and saint on this day in history.   

1266  Manfred, bastard son of Emperor Frederik II/king of Sicily, dies on this day in history.   

1324  Dino Compagni, Italian silk seller/poet/chronicler, dies on this day in history.   

1360  Death of Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328) on this day in history.   

1538  Worp van Thabor, Frisian abbott of Thabor (Chronicon Frisiae), dies on February - 26.   

1552  Death of Heinrich Faber, German composer on February - 26.