Page 3: Historical Events In June - 05
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1863 CSS "Alabama" captures the "Tailsman" in the Mid Atlantic. 

1863 Battle of Franklin's Crossing, VA (Deep Run) 

1863 Arthur Somervell, composer. 

1864 Battle of Piedmont, VA (Augusta City). 

1864 William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Conf brig-gen, dies in battle at 39 

1868 Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer, dies at 73 

1869 In this year, 3rd Belmont: C Miller aboard Fenian claims in 3:04.25. 

1870 Constantinople in fire; 900 die 

1872 Republican National Convention meets (Phila). 

1873 Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar 

1874 Jack Chesbro, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees. 

1875 Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens. 

1876 Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Phila. 

1877 Johan W Albarda, 1st Dutch socialist minister (1939-45). 

1878 Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary is born. 

1878 Franklyn Farnum, actor (Cowboy and Bandit, Scarlet Car, Frontier Days). 

1879 In this year, 13th Belmont: George Evans aboard Spendthrift claims in 2:42.75. 

1879 Adolf Wiklund, composer 

1880 Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Betuwsche Novellen), dies at 52 

1882 Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer and conductor is born 

1882 Storm and floods hits Bombay; about 100000 die. 

1882 Igor F Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) [OS]. 

1883 John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge England, economist/math/journalist 

1884 William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected". 

1884 Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist 

1885 J Palisa discovers asteroid #248 Lameia 

1885 Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French Foreign minister (-1940) 

1885 Julius Benedict, composer (Protoghesi), dies at 80 

1886 In this year, 20th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Inspector B claims in 2:41. 

1887 Ruth Benedict, US, anthropologist (Patterns of Culture) 

1888 Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president. 

1888 Raden Mas Nato Suroto, Indonesia, poet (Melatiknoppen) 

1892 Alexander Loudon, diplomat (Washington) 

1894 Immanuel Faisst, composer, dies at 70. 

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