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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany during WW I. 
1915 Clyde Wiegand, physicist.
1916 Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun
1916 M Jean Francaix, composer.
1917 Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft.
1918 SS Moldavia, lost off Littlehampton, Sussex. This P and O ship of 9500 tons was requisitioned in 1915 and converted to an auxilliary cruiser and commissioned by the British Admiralty. Later she was used as a troopship after the USA joined the war and while carrying troops to France she was torpedoed. Most soldiers were rescued but 56 lost their lives.
1918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens.
1918 Bulent Arel, composer
1919 Betty Garrett, St Joseph Mo, actress (Irene-All in the Family).
1920 In this year, Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei.
1920 Helen O'Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola)
1921 "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
1922 "Abie's Irish Rose" inaugural of over 2500 performances.
1922 Harry Greb gives Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat.
1922 Walt Disney incorporates his inaugural film company Laugh-O-Gram Films.
1922 "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2500 performances
1923 The inaugural flight of Sabena Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain.
1923 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain
1923 The inaugural flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain
1926 Lebanese constitution is established under French mandate
1926 Lebanon is recorded as becoming a republic
1926 Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard
1926 Hans Koessler, composer, dies at 73
1928 Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die.
1929 Canada's inaugural airborne wedding takes place in a bi-plane over Regina
1929 inaugural non-stop Winnipeg-to-Edmonton flight made in six hours and 48 minutes. (and it still takes about 6 hours for the trip)
1931 Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England.
1932 Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds
1933 Parliament passes Canadian National-Canadian Pacific Act; directing the two companies to cooperate during the Depression.
1934 Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death in a police ambush in Louisiana
1934 Wallace Carothers manufactures inaugural nylon (polymeer 66).
1934 The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6000 picketers.
1934 Bonnie Parker, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), killed in police ambush.
1935 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati)
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