Page 4: Historical Events In July - 31
Monday, 23 February 2026
1902 G O "Gubby" Allen, cricketer (in Sydney England non-bodyline quickie). 

1904 Arthur Daley, sportswriter (NY Times-Pulitzer 1956). 

1905 Matumbi rebellion at Samanga German East Africa 

1905 Trenchard Cox, museum director. 

1909 Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th 

1910 Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game 

1911 Hungarian education is only taught in German 

1911 George Liberace, Menasha Wisc, violinist (Liberace Show) 

1911 Jack Edwards, cricketer (1888 Ashes tourist), dies 

1912 inaugural attempt to launch an airplane by catapult made at Annapolis 

1912 US government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights (censorship) 

1912 RBC soccer team forms in Roosendaal. 

1912 Bill Brown, cricketer (Australian opener of the 30's and 40's) 

1913 Bryan Hextall, NHL hall of famer (NY Rangers) 

1914 Labor leader Andrew Fisher declares at Colac that Australians will defend Britain "to our last man and our last shilling". 

1914 German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize. 

1914 Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker. 

1914 A J Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité/Les Preuves), murdered=. 

1915 Robert Steel, academic 

1916 Sydney Tafler, London England, actor (Too Many Crooks). 

1917 Crpl.Leslie Wilton ANDREW, 2nd Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment won the Victoria Cross at La Bassee-Ville, France, 

1917 Third battle of Ypres begins. 

1917 3rd battle of Ypres begins 

1917 Charlie Finlason, cricketer (S Africa's 1st Test), dies. 

1918 Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate 

1919 Germany accepts Weimar Constitution. 

1919 Curt Gowdy, Green River Wyo, sportscaster (ABC) 

1919 R G Barlow, cricketer (591 runs/34 wickets/17 Tests for England), dies. 

1920 Rudolf Halaczinsky, composer. 

1921 Whitney M Young Jr, civil rights leader, head of Urban League 

1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's inaugural water skis (Minn) 

1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn). 

1922 Lucy Killea, (assemblywoman-Calif). 

1923 Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University 

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