Page 3: Historical Events In July - 26
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1848 1st Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY) 

1856 George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright is born. 

1856 George Bernard Shaw, Dublin Ire, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925). 

1858 Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament. 

1858 Tommy Garrett, cricketer (original Australian Test player) 

1860 Philippe J Bunau-Varilla, French engineer (Colombia-Panama) 

1863 At Salineville, OH John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender 

1863 Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender 

1863 Jazeps Witols, composer 

1863 Samuel Houston, 1st Pres of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), dies at 70. 

1864 -31] Riot at McCook's to Lovejoy Station GA, US600 CS---. 

1865 Patrick Francis Healy is inaugural black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium) 

1865 Patrick Francis Healy is 1st black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium). 

1865 Philipp Scheidemann, German Parliament (SPD)/mayor of Kassel 

1866 Canoe Club opens in England. 

1866 Francesco Cilea, composer. 

1872 George Louis Beer, historian (authority on British colonies) 

1872 Michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84. 

1874 Serge Koussevitzky, Vishny-Volotchok, Russia conductor (Boston Symp). 

1875 Carl Gustav Jung, Switzerland, doctor (founded analytic psychology). 

1876 Ernest Schelling, Belvidere NJ, composer/conductor (Victory Ball). 

1877 Hubert Ahaus, missionary (Harvest Fields). 

1878 In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be are discovered later with a taunting poem inside. 

1881 French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax 

1881 Alexander J Kropholler, architect. 

1881 George Borrow, writer, dies 

1882 Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal," premieres in Beirut 

1885 Andre Maurois, Elbeuf, France, novelist/biographer 

1887 The inaugural Esperanto book published 

1887 1st Esperanto book published 

1888 M Jouhandeau, writer. 

1891 Henry James' "American," premieres in London. 

1891 Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian. 

1892 Philipp Jarnach, composer. 

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