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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1898 Alexander Calder, sculptor (mobiles, stabiles). 
1901 Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
1901 Charles Weidman, Nebraska, modern dancer/choreographer (Candide)
1902 Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer
1905 Body of John Paul Jones moved to Annapolis, MD for reburial
1905 Phila Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0.
1905 Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble).
1906 The Grand Trunk Railway changes from left to right hand running on double track sections. The change involved considerable alteration in crossovers, switches and semaphore signals
1908 W Lorenz discovers asteroid #665 Sabine
1908 Amy Vanderbilt, authority on etiquette (Complete Book of Etiquette)
1909 D v Liliencron, writer, dies at 65
1910 Edith Abbo, daughter of Mien Wenneker/Dutch Prince Henry
1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes
1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden closes
1913 Licia Albanese, Bari Italy, operatic soprano (NY Met Opera)
1914 Cecil Effinger, composer.
1916 A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in SF killing 10
1916 Ten people are killed when a bomb explodes during the Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco.
1916 Hipolito M Ocalia, Curacao, landscape painter
1917 Alexander Kerensky is recorded as becoming Russian PM.
1917 Four members of the Australian Army Nursing Service - Sisters Cawood, Deacon and Ross-King and Staff Nurse Derrer - win Military Medals for rescuing patients trapped in a burning Casualty Clearing Station at Trois Arbes, France These were the inaugural bravery awards won by Australian nurses in action.
1917 M Wolf discovers asteroids #879 Ricarda, #880 Herba and #881 Athene.
1918 Lightning results in the deaths of 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park
1918 Pim [Albrecht W] Lyre, Dutch lawyer/son of prince Henry
1919 De Falla and Massine's "Three-cornered Hat," premieres in London
1920 Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman
1921 25th US Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia CC in MD
1921 William V Roth Jr, (Sen-R-Delaware, 1971- )
1922 Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St Louis teams are on top.
1923 Walter Johnson is recorded as becoming the inaugural to strikeout 3000
1923 Walter Johnson is recorded as becoming 1st to strikeout 3000 (en route to 3508)
1923 Robert J Dole, (Sen-R Kansas, 1969-95)/presidential candidate (R-1996).
1924 Margaret Whiting, Detroit, singer (Kreisler Bandstand, Strauss Family)
1925 Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher.
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