Page 6: Historical Events In May - 30
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1924 Norbert Schemansky, USA, middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1952). 

1925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators. 

1925 Claude Prey, composer 

1926 Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual 

1927 Walter Johnson records 113th and last shutout of his career. 

1927 Clint Walker, Hartford Ill, actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen). 

1928 John Keith Wright, English economist/asst sect of state (1971-84) 

1929 Michael Mellinger, Bavaria, actor (Goldfinger) 

1930 In this year, Bill Arnold claims Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph) 

1931 Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH 

1932 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins. 

1932 Pauline Oliveros, Houston Texas, composer (Sound Patterns) 

1933 Patent on invisible glass installation 

1934 Nazis open trials of alleged communists. 

1934 Alexei A Leonov, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II, Soyuz 19) 

1935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies 

1935 Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49 

1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago, 10 die. 

1937 20th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC Aspinwall PA. 

1938 Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 and 5-4 in front of 83533 at Yankee Stadium. 

1938 Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49. 

1940 Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman, dies at 104 

1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government. 

1941 inaugural anti semitic measures in Serbia. 

1941 German capture Kreta. 

1941 The Canadian passenger ship SS Nerissa torpedoed off Ireland 73 Cdn. Army personnel lost. 

1942 1047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WWII. 

1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor 

1943 French General De Gaulle arrives in Algiers. 

1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians. 

1944 Transport NR75 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany. 

1944 Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79. 

1945 Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed 

1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (New York) 42 die 

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