Page 4: Historical Events In November - 24
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1905 Moshav Hertzlia forms in Israel 

1905 Irene Wicker, singer/actress (Singing Lady). 

1906 Andreina Pagnani, Rome Italy, actress (Il Commandante) 

1908 Harry Kemelman, US detective author (rabbi-omnibus) 

1909 Hans Melchior Brugk, composer 

1910 Lennox Brown, cricketer (S Afr leg-spinner on 1931-32 Aust/NZ tour). 

1911 Kirby Grant, Butte Mont, actor (Sky King). 

1912 Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (Johnson murderer!) 

1913 Gisela Mauermeyer, Germany, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1936). 

1914 Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party 

1914 Elise Hoomans, Dutch director/actress (Jane Eyre). 

1914 Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/Flemish People Party, dies 

1915 Serbian leader flees to Albania. 

1916 Forrest J Ackerman, invented the term "sci-fi". 

1916 John Francis Barnett, composer, dies at 79. 

1917 Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when a bomb explodes at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin police headquarters building 

1917 Howard Duff, Bremerton Wash, actor (Flamingo Road, Knots Landing). 

1918 Béla Can forms Hungarian Communist Party 

1918 Roley Jenkins, cricketer (English leg-spinner 1948-52). 

1919 John Silverlight, journalist 

1920 Anthony Griffin, sailor 

1922 Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year". 

1923 Radio Belgium's 1st transmission 

1923 Michel de Klerk, architect (Amsterdam School), dies at 39 

1924 1st Dutch airplane (Fokker's F-7) reaches Batavia (Java). 

1925 Alun Owen, American script writer is born 

1925 1st radio-broadcast of Dutch KRO (Catholic Radio Broadcast) 

1926 KVI-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions. 

1929 Georges Clemenceau, French journalist/premier (1917-20), dies at 88 

1930 The inaugural woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, NY to CA), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days 

1930 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, NY to Calif), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days 

1932 In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. 

1934 CFL Grey Cup: Sarnia beats Regina, 20-12 at Toronto 

1935 King George II returns to Greece after 12 years 

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