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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1912 Audrey Langford, singing teacher. 
1913 George Walter Selwyn Lloyd, English composer (Serf, John Socman).
1914 Assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, in Sarajevo by a Serbian Nationalist,Gavrilo Princip. This incident precipitated a war with Serbia, eventually starting WW1
1914 Austria invades Siberia (WW I).
1914 Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player
1914 Franz Ferdinand, Austrian archduke (Sarajevo, Bosnia), assassinated
1915 Victor Trumper, cricketer (48 Tests for Australia, 3163 runs), dies.
1917 Potato entrepreneurs begins in Amsterdam
1917 Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch singer/actor (My Fair Lady).
1918 The inaugural flight between Hawaiian Islands.
1918 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands.
1918 Bert Schierbeek, [Lambertus], Dutch writer/poet (Cross Roads)
1919 Harry S Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence
1919 Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed and setting the stage for WWII.
1919 Carl Mazes pitches a complete doubleheader against NY Yankees
1920 A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright.
1921 P V Narasimha Rao, premier of India (1991- )
1922 Terje Stigen, Norwegian author (Det siste paradiset)
1923 Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Phillies score 8 in bottom of 9th.
1923 Lloyd Labeach, Panama City, 100m/200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1948).
1924 Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio and Lorain Ohio, killing 93
1924 Test cricket umpire debut for Frank Chester, v South Africa at Lord's.
1924 Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host.
1926 Mel Brooks, NYC, comedian/actor/director (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs).
1927 Mel Brooks, American comedy director and actor is born.
1927 Theo van Tijn, Dutch marxist/social-historian
1928 Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention.
1928 Andrew Gordon Speedie-Pask, cybernetician stage producer/lyricist
1929 The following railways are jointly acquired by Canadian National and Canadian Pacific and operated under a newly incorporated company, the Northern Alberta Railways Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway (447 miles) Alberta and Great Waterways Railway (286 miles) Central Canada Railway (98 miles) Pembina Valley Railway (26 miles) A total of 857 miles.
1929 Don Dubbins, Brooklyn, actor (Enchanted Island, Fix).
1929 The following railways are jointly acquired by Canadian National and Canadian Pacific and operated under a newly incorporated company, the Northern Alberta Railways: Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway (447 miles) Alberta and Great Waterways Railway (286 miles) Central Canada Railway (98 miles) Pembina Valley Railway (26 miles) A total of 857 miles.
1930 Lightning strikes drill boat John B. King in the St. Lawrence River, setting off dynamite and killing 31 crew members.
1930 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on KC Monarchs
1930 Nikolay Nikolayevich Karetnikov, composer
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