Page 5: Historical Events In June - 14
Saturday, 21 February 2026
1927 Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris), dies at 79. 

1928 Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover. 

1928 Ernesto "Che" Guevara Serna, Arg/Cuba revolutionary (Cuba) 

1928 Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist, dies. 

1928 Ernesto (Che) Guevera, Revolutionary hero is born. 

1929 Prussia and Vatican sign Concord 

1929 Alan Davidson, cricketer (mighty Australian lefty quick all-rounder). 

1930 VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht. 

1931 French "St Philbert" overturned off St Nazaire France, drowns 450. 

1931 French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450 

1931 Marla Gibbs, Chicago Ill, actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227). 

1932 German govt of von Papen forms 

1932 Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, composer. 

1932 Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian business pioneer 

1933 Lou Gehrig and Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1249 games. 

1933 Jerzy Kosinski, novelist (Painted Bird, Being There). 

1933 Albert Ross Parsons, composer, dies at 85. 

1934 Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City. 

1934 Hitler and Mussolini meet in Vienna. 

1935 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends 

1935 Jan Nijland, cattle breeder/Dutch MP (CDA) 

1936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1490 Limpopo 

1936 Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens 

1936 Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies 

1937 Jørgen Leth, Danish film director 

1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin 

1938 In this year, Dorothy Lathrop claims the inaugural Caldecott Medal (kid books author) 

1938 Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge 

1938 William W Campbell, US astronomer (Stellar Motions), dies at 76 

1939 Steny H Hoyer, (Rep-D-MD, 1981- ). 

1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II. 

1940 German troops enter Paris 

1940 The Nazis open the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Also German troops enter Paris during World War II 

1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there). 

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