Page 3: Historical Events In June - 21
Saturday, 14 February 2026
1877 The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons 

1879 F W Woolworth opens inaugural store (failed almost immediately) 

1879 F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately). 

1879 Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide) 

1882 Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales) 

1883 Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian writer (Cement) 

1884 Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa. 

1884 Alexander, prince/last male descendent of Johan W Friso, dies 

1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria 

1887 Adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67 

1891 Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music). 

1892 Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature and Destiny of Man). 

1893 The inaugural Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition) 

1893 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition). 

1893 Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University. 

1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company 

1895 British Roseberry govt falls 

1898 Guam is recorded as becoming a territory of US 

1899 Pavel Haas, composer 

1900 Arthur MacArthur, U.S. military governor in the Philippines, grants an amnesty to Filipino rebels. 

1900 Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers 

1900 Gunnar Ek, composer 

1900 Polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69 

1902 Wilhelm Maler, composer. 

1903 Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG) 

1903 Al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times). 

1904 Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913) 

1905 Jean-Paul Sartre, French playwright is born. 

1905 Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France). 

1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #601 Nerthus 

1906 Luis Maria Millet, composer. 

1907 13th US Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Phila Cricket Club PA. 

1908 Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64. 

1909 Kurt Schwaen, composer. 

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