Page 2: Historical Events In June - 05
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1794 The U.S. Congress pases the Neutrality Act, prohibiting Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power 

1794 Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces 

1798 The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated 

1798 Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer 

1805 The inaugural recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois) 

1805 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois). 

1806 Batavian Republic is recorded as becoming the Kingdom of Holland. 

1806 The inaugural trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee) 

1806 1st trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee) 

1808 -6] Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians. 

1813 Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer 

1816 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76. 

1819 John Couch Adams, English astronomer (co-discover Neptune). 

1823 George Thorndike Angell, Mass, lawyer (ASPCA) 

1825 Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, Georgia, educator (Rep-Ala, 1857-61) 

1825 Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence 

1826 Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer. 

1826 Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, composer (Oberon), dies at 39. 

1827 Turks capture Acropolis and takes Athens during Greek War of Independ. 

1827 Beverly Holcombe Robertson, Brig General (Confederate Army). 

1829 The HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba 

1831 Marcus Joseph Wright, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1922 

1833 Ada Lovelace (future inaugural computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage. 

1833 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage 

1846 Telegraph line opens between Phila and Balt. 

1848 Statue of prince Willem the Silent unveiled. 

1849 Danish National Day-Denmark is recorded as becoming a constitutional monarchy. 

1852 Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer, dies at 45 

1855 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's inaugural convention 

1855 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention. 

1857 Walter Woodbury and James Page open photo studio in Batavia (Djakarta) 

1861 Federal marshals seize arms and gunpower at Du Pont works DE 

1861 John Garland, US Union colonel/brig-general, dies in battle. 

1862 Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician (Nobel 1911) 

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