Page 4: Historical Events In June - 14
Saturday, 21 February 2026
1904 Benno Ammann, composer 

1906 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #600 Musa. 

1906 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia. 

1906 Carl Esmond, Wien (Vienna) Austria, actor (Smash-Up). 

1907 Govt of Transvaal sends home 50000 Chinese day workers. 

1907 René Char, French poet/painter. 

1907 A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP), dies 

1908 Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships. 

1908 John Scott Trotter, Charlotte NC, orch leader (George Gobel Show) 

1909 Burl Ives, Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) 

1910 Rudolf Kempe, Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-72) 

1911 Johan Severin Svendsen, composer, dies at 70 

1912 E Cuyler Hammond, scientist (1st to link smoking with lung cancer). 

1916 Geoffrey Goodwin, British professor of international relations 

1917 Gen Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I 

1917 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London. 

1917 Al "Lash" LaRue, Gretna La, actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp). 

1918 Carter Harman, composer 

1919 The inaugural nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock and Brown) leaves Nfld 

1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock and Brown) leaves Nfld. 

1919 Sam Wanamaker, Chic Ill, actor (Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal). 

1920 Helmer-Rayner Sinisalo, composer 

1920 Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies 

1921 Gene Barry, NYC, actor (Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke's Law). 

1922 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa 

1922 Arthur Jacobs, musicologist 

1923 Pres Harding is inaugural US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore 

1923 Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane) 

1923 Donald Smith, cricketer (uneventful England opening batsman 1957). 

1924 Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe and Maurice Tate v S Africa. 

1924 Solouchin, writer 

1925 Barbara Hammer Avedon, scriptwriter 

1926 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60) 

1926 Hermann Kant, writer. 

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