Page 3: Historical Events In June - 17
Tuesday, 17 February 2026
1855 Fritz Steinbach, composer. 

1856 Republican Party opens its inaugural national convention in Philadelphia. 

1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia 

1858 Eben Sumner Draper, (Gov-MA). 

1861 Battle of Boonville, MI-Brig General Lyon defeats Confederate forces. 

1861 Sidney James Jones, composer. 

1862 Charles J Canning, English 1st viceroy of British-Indies, dies at 49. 

1863 Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back the Union in Virginia. 

1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer) 

1863 Battle at Middleburg Virginia. 

1863 Isham W Garrott, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle. 

1864 -18] Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia 

1867 John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor (shorthand). 

1870 USS Mohican burns Mexican pirate ship Forward 

1870 George Cormack, cereal inventor (Wheaties). 

1871 James Weldon Johnson, lawyer (1st black admitted to Florida Bar) 

1874 Grant Mitchell, Columbus OH, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner). 

1875 Philipp A Kohnstamm, philosopher/theorist (Mensch and World) 

1876 1st to hit 2 HRs; and score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's) 

1877 Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon 

1878 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician 

1880 John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo 

1880 Carl Van Fight, US author/critic (Red, Nigger Heaven) 

1882 Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer and conductor is born 

1882 Tornado results in the deaths of 130 in Iowa 

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

1883 Alexandre Cellier, composer. 

1884 Christina C Bakker-van Bosse, feminist/pacifist 

1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere' 

1885 Gen Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n), dies. 

1888 Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer 

1894 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont. 

1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan 

1895 Slavko Osterc, composer. 

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