Page 4: Historical Events In June - 25
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1912 Virginia Lacy Jones, US librarian/presidential advisor. 

1912 Louis Antoine, Belgian miner/sect leader, dies at about 65. 

1913 Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority). 

1915 Peter Lind Hayes, SF Calif, comedian/singer (Peter Lind Hayes Show). 

1916 Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov 

1916 Theodore P Toynbee, British journalist/writer (Savage Days, Barricade). 

1918 Baku-Turkish communist party forms. 

1919 inaugural advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13) 

1919 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13) 

1920 League of Nations places Intl head of Justice in Hague. 

1921 Jack Hutchinson is recorded as becoming inaugural American to win golf's British Open. 

1921 56th British Golf Open: Jock Hutchison shoots a 296 at St Andrews. 

1921 Peter Charles Arthur Wishart, composer. 

1923 Dorothy Gilman, mystery writer 

1924 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1023 Thomana. 

1924 Sidney Lumet, Phila, director (Group, Pawnbroker, Fail Safe). 

1925 June Lockhart, American actress of TV and film is born 

1925 Military putsch under Gen Theodorus Pangulos in Greece 

1925 Clifton Chenier, Opelousas La, blues singer (Bayou Blues) 

1926 61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham. 

1926 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austria author/poet. 

1926 Symon Petljoera, pres Ukraine (pogroms), murdered in Paris. 

1927 WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout. 

1928 NY Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader. 

1928 William Joseph Russo, composer 

1929 Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam). 

1929 Eric Carle, American author 

1929 Georges Courteline [Moineaux], French playwright, dies. 

1930 Hugo Gabriel Gryn, rabbi 

1932 36th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows NY 

1932 Peter Blake, British artist. 

1933 Gary Crosby, Calif, actor (Bill Dana Show, Adam 12, Chase) 

1934 Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets v Australia (7-61 and 8-43). 

1934 Willy Rodriguez, cricketer (occasional leg-spin bat for WI in 60's). 

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