Page 3: Historical Events In July - 21
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1861 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South claims 

1861 Francis Stebbins Bartow, Confederate colonel, dies in battle at 44. 

1863 C[harles] Aubrey Smith, London England, actor (Prisoner of Zenda) 

1864 Frances Folsom Cleveland, 1st lady (1885-89, 93-97). 

1865 In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and results in the deaths of Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the inaugural true western showdown 

1865 Robert Kahn, composer 

1866 Cholera epidemic results in the deaths of hundreds in London 

1867 City Gardens on Folsom opens. 

1870 Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42. 

1873 Jesse James and James Younger gang's 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa). 

1877 -27] US army breaks railroad strike 

1880 Compressed air accident results in the deaths of 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY League merge to form National Association of Colored Woman 

1880 Compressed air accident results in the deaths of 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY 

1884 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord's 

1885 Frances Parkinson Keyes, novelist (Dinner at Antoine) 

1888 Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade), dies at 53. 

1891 Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor, dies at 51. 

1892 Anton Schnack, German writer/poet. 

1893 Hans Fallada, writer. 

1895 H G "Nummy" Deane, South African cricket Test captain (1927-31) 

1896 National Federation of Afro-American Women and Colored Women's 

1897 Tate Gallery opens in England. 

1898 Spain cedes Guam to US. 

1898 Ernest Willem Mulder, composer 

1899 Ernest Hemmingway, US novelist and Nobel prize winner is born 

1899 Ernest Hemmingway, Oak Park, for whom the bell tolled... (Nobel 1954) 

1900 Pope Leo XIII encyclical to Greek-Melkite rite. 

1901 Allyn Joslyn, Milford Pa, actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society) 

1903 Theodore Karyotakis, composer. 

1904 Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH 

1904 After 13 years, the 4607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed 

1905 Diana Trilling, writer 

1906 Daniel Ayala Perez, composer. 

1907 Ross Alexander, Brooklyn NY, actor (Boulder Dam, Capt Blood) 

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