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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1908 American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later 
1908 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate.
1910 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway)
1910 Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo Japan, director (7 Samurai, Living)
1911 Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby league player.
1912 Dixie Cup invented.
1912 Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1936)
1914 Robert Gross, composer
1914 Teunis Stoel, actor, dies at 62
1915 Zion Mule Corp forms.
1915 Francis Berry, poet/Shakespearean scholar.
1917 4 day series of tornadoes results in the deaths of 211 in Midwest US
1917 Launching of USS New Mexico, inaugural dreadnought with turboelectric drive
1917 Tornadoes results in the deaths of 211 over 4 days in Midwest US
1917 H C Allen, American historian.
1918 Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River.
1918 Lithuania proclaims independence.
1918 Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp).
1918 The giant German gun, Big Bertha, shells Paris from 120 km away;
1918 Cesar Cortinas, composer, dies at 27.
1919 Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
1919 Benito Mussolini, an Italian World War I veteran and publisher of Socialist newspapers, breaks with the Italian Socialists and establishes the nationalist Fasci di Combattimento.
1919 Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms.
1919 Michael Lyne, British air Vice-marshal
1919 Jean HL Bossard, actor/impresario (2 Orphans), dies at 45
1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms.
1920 Alexander Grigori Harut'unyan, composer
1921 Donald Malcome Campbell, Surrey UK, boat racer (1955 speed records)
1922 inaugural airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington DC.
1922 1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington, DC
1923 Frank Silver and Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
1925 Tennessee is recorded as becoming inaugural state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1925 The teaching of Darwins theory of evolution banned in Tennessee schools
1925 Tennessee is recorded as becoming 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
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