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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1914 Leo van Gheluwe, composer, dies at 76 
1916 Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds.
1917 WW I draft lottery held; #258 is inaugural drawn.
1917 Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes form Yugoslavia
1918 World War I: German troops cross the Marne
1919 Edmund Hillary, NZ, one of 1st 2 men to scale Mt Everest
1920 Heerenveen soccer team forms
1920 Elliot L Richardson, Attorney General (1973)/Sec of Defense (1973)
1921 Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the inaugural woman to preside over the US House of Representatives
1921 Frederick Schroeder Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1942).
1922 Togo made a mandate of the League of Nations
1922 Togo made a mandate of League of Nations.
1922 Miroslav "Standa" Bares, Czech/Dutch actor/director (Billy Budd).
1923 Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2
1923 Pancho Villa, [Doroteo Arango], Mexican rebel, murdered at 55.
1924 Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) forms in Paris.
1924 Hans Lodeizen, [Johannes A Frederik], Dutch poet (Inner Self)
1925 Jaques Delors, French politician is born
1925 Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France.
1926 A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
1927 Lindbergh begins NY flight (Spirit of St Louis).
1927 Ferdinand I VAM, King of Romania, dies at 61
1928 The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians.
1930 106°F (41°C), Washington, DC (district record).
1932 In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House.
1933 Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler
1934 118°F (48°C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record)
1935 1st broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio.
1936 Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer, dies at 75.
1937 Guglielmo Marconi dies Mr. Marconi played a major role in the development of early radio. Born in Italy, he studied engineering. Marconi began experimenting with crude radio devices at the age of 20, and he later moved to England, where he won government support for his work
1937 Guglielmo Marconi, Ital engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies.
1938 Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws
1938 Dianna Rigg, English actress is born
1939 Joseph Mendes da Costa, sculptor, dies
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