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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1915 21st US Golf Open: John Travers shoots a 297 at Baltusrol GC NJ 
1915 Arthur Fagg, cricketer (dual double-centuries in a game for Kent 1938)
1915 Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio Comancho.
1916 Yanks score in every inning but 8th to beat Indians 19-3 in baseball.
1916 John Young, actor/TV panelist (Masquerade Party).
1916 Helmuth J L von Moltke, German chief general of staff, dies at 67.
1917 Akhmet Jevdet Ismail Hajiyev, composer
1918 Bob Carroll, singer/actor (Stage Two Revue, Stranger).
1919 Edward Leadbitter, politician
1920 Aster Berkhof, [Louis Van de Bergh], Flemish writer (Furious Christ).
1921 Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguay writer (Nativa, Lanza y Sable), dies
1922 Donald L Keene, NYC, Japanese translator/critic
1922 John C Kapteyn, astronomer, dies at 71
1924 Pope Pius XI's encyclical Maximam gravissimamque.
1926 Theodor Lessing laid-off "because he is a Jew" in Hanover.
1927 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6.
1928 Amelia Earhart is recorded as becoming the inaugural woman to fly across the Atlantic. Her solo flight from Newfoundland to Wales took 21 hours.
1928 Amelia Earhart is recorded as becoming 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean.
1928 Roald E G Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer, dies.
1930 Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
1934 US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized.
1934 Francisco Lacerda, composer, dies at 65
1935 August Reusner, composer, dies at 64.
1936 The inaugural bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI
1936 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI
1936 Maxim Gorki, [Alexei M Peshkov], Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68
1937 John D. Rockerfeller IV, American millionaire is born
1937 Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France (1913..34), dies
1938 Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season
1939 French LM "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish actor, dies at 73.
1940 The French cruiser Emile Bertin arrives in Canada with $305 million in gold from the Bank of France; gold released after the war.
1940 The RAF's 242 'Canadian' Squadron withdraws from France
1940 Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"
1940 Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers.
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