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Friday, 20 February 2026
1910 Cape of Good Hope is recorded as becoming part of the Union of South Africa 
1910 Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC.
1910 Cape of Good Hope is recorded as becoming part of Union of South Africa.
1910 Elizabeth Blackwell, Hastings, 1st woman doctor of medicine
1910 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89.
1911 R.M.S. Titanic launched
1911 Edward Adamson, art therapist/collector.
1912 US marines land on Cuba.
1912 Barbara Pepper, NYC, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres, Rogue Tavern)
1913 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified.
1913 Peter Gibson, British Rear-Admiral
1914 Chic White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1.
1914 Akira Ifukube, composer
1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London fortelling the future.
1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London.
1916 Battle of Skagerrak British-German sea battle at Jutland (10000 dead).
1916 British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6
1916 During WWI British and German fleets fight Battle of Jutland
1916 Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10000 dead).
1916 Bert Haanstra, Holten Netherlands, director (Fanfare)
1916 Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle
1916 Battle of Skagerrak: British-German sea battle at Jutland (10000 dead).
1917 1First jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
1917 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
1918 General Monash succeeds Birdwood as GOC Australian Corps.
1918 HMS Fairy, Built by Fairfields at Govan, Glasgow this 'C' Class destroyer of about 400 tons rammed the German submarine UC75 off the Yorkshire coast. The Uboat had previously been rammed by the steamer Blaydonian, damaging the casing. The Uboat then surfaced and at inaugural the Commanding Officer of Fairy thought the submarine must be Royal Navy but the normal challenge was not replied to. Fairy then rammed the uboat at the stern because if the boat was British the crew would have time to get out. It then became quite quite clear the boat was German so HMS Fairy rammed her hard just forward of the conning tower. Two of the men from the submarine jumped on to the forecastle of the destroyer and the other twelve crew were rescued from the water. The submarine sank but the bows of the destroyer were seriously damaged as the submarine was a much bigger vessel than HMS Fairy and she, herself, later sank.
1919 inaugural wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston TX).
1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes inaugural crossing of Atlantic
1919 NC-4's transatlantic flight ends at Plymouth, England.
1919 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas)
1919 Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer
1920 Edward Bennett Williams, lawyer/team owner (Redskins, Balt Orioles)
1921 Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1700.
1921 Alida Valli, Pola Italy, actress (Miracle of the Bells, 3rd Man)
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