Page 5: Historical Events In March - 27
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1914 The inaugural successful blood transfusion is performed. 

1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels) 

1914 Budd Schulberg, NYC, novelist (On the Waterfront). 

1915 Richard Sharp, civil servant 

1917 In this year, Lt. Frederick M. W. Harvey (Lord Strathcona's Horse Cdn.) claims the Victoria Cross at Gyencourt France. 

1917 Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80) 

1918 In this year, Lt. Alan Arnett MCLeod Cdn. (Royal Flying Corp) claims the Victoria Cross for service over France 

1918 Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania 

1919 Julian Amery, conservative minister. 

1920 Film stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks wed. 

1920 Richard Hayman, bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera). 

1920 Johan G Danser, Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26 

1921 Tom Bevill, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- ). 

1922 Margaret Stacey, sociologist 

1922 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer, dies at 63 

1923 Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist whose inventions include the thermos flask and cordite, dies 

1923 Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death). 

1924 Canada recognizes USSR 

1924 Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83 

1925 Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92 

1927 Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor is born 

1928 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson 

1928 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner. 

1928 KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions 

1928 Leslie Stuart, composer, dies at 64 

1929 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson. 

1929 Samuil Shatunovsky, Ukrainian mathematician, dies at 70. 

1930 The inaugural US radio broadcast from a ship at sea 

1930 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea. 

1931 Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor 

1931 John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on. 

1931 Arnold Bennett, novelist, dies 

1932 De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt. 

1933 At a mass rally in New York's Madison Square Garden, Jewish leaders threaten a counter-boycott against German-made goods unless their anti-Jewish boycott is called off 

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