Page 5: Historical Events In May - 30
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1908 Mel[vin J] Blanc, voice (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig). 

1909 National Conference on the Negro is held. 

1909 Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of inaugural home in Tel-Aviv. 

1909 Benny Goodman, American bandleader is born 

1909 Benny Goodman, Chicago, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing) 

1910 In this year, 44th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Sweep claims in 2:22. 

1911 In this year, 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun claims at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH) 

1911 Douglas Fowley, NYC, actor (Grandpa-Pistols 'n' Petticoats). 

1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua. 

1912 Alexander Langsdorf, physicist 

1912 Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies 

1913 inaugural Balkan War ends with the, Treaty of London 

1913 New country of Albania is formed 

1913 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London. 

1913 Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer. 

1914 The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City 

1914 Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orch leader (Milton Berle Show) 

1915 Jerome Bert Weisner, military scientist/disarmer 

1916 Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium). 

1917 Alexander I is recorded as becoming king of Greece. 

1918 Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies. 

1919 Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies 

1920 John Heawood, actor/singer/choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) 

1921 Memorial to Captain Eddie Grant, killed in WWI, unveiled at Polo Grounds. 

1921 Salzburg Austria votes to join Germany 

1921 Lord Dunsany's "If," premieres in London. 

1922 Latvia and Vatican sign accord 

1922 The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated today in Washington, D C , by Chief Justice William Howard Taft. 

1922 Harry Clement Stubbs, US, sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld). 

1922 David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45. 

1923 Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic," premieres 

1923 Jimmy Lydon, Harrington Pk NJ, actor (Richard-Love That Jill) 

1923 Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63 

1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists 

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