Page 4: Historical Events In February - 27
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1888 Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello). 

1890 D Needham and P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), San Francisco; match is draw. 

1890 D Needham and P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m), SF; match is draw. 

1891 David Sarnoff, US, radio/TV pioneer/CEO (RCA). 

1892 William Demarest, St Paul Minn, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons). 

1893 Joseph Messner, composer 

1894 Robert-Lucien Siohan, composer. 

1895 Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys). 

1897 Bernard F Lyot, French astronomer (Lyot filter) 

1898 Allison Danzig, sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History) 

1899 Charles H Best, Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer (Insulin). 

1900 England's Labour Party is founded. 

1900 Battle at Pietershoogte 

1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes. 

1901 Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter. 

1902 John Steinbeck, American writer is born 

1902 Ethelda Bleibtrey, 100m/300m US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1920) 

1903 Reginald Gardiner, Wimbledon England, actor (Great Dictator) 

1904 James Thomas Farrell, US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy) 

1905 In this year, Montana formally adopts its state flag. 

1905 Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye). 

1906 France and Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides. 

1906 Alexander Matheson, NZ cricket pace bowler (2 Tests 1930-31). 

1907 Gerhard Alexander, [Veldheer], Dutch actor (Prince Willem of Orange) 

1908 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954) 

1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma 

1909 Elisabeth Welch, singer (Song of Freedom, Over the Moon) 

1910 Joan Bennett, Palasades NJ, actress (Little Women, Disraeli). 

1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway 

1913 Frank Allaun, British MP (L). 

1913 Adam Sedgwick, English zoologist (Peripatus), dies at 58. 

1915 Arthur Gilson, Belgian attorney/minister of Defense (1958-..) 

1917 Women in Ontario win right to vote in provincial elections 

1917 John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), shot in Kennedy motorcade. 

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