Page 2: Historical Events In October - 06
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1816 William Batchelder Bradbury, composer. 

1818 Joseph Rummel, composer 

1819 Willem A Scholten, Dutch potato-flour manufacturer. 

1819 Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardinia (1796-1802)/Jesuit, dies 

1824 Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book 

1827 Cark Reidel, composer. 

1831 J W Richard Dedekind, Ger mathematician (Nature and Meaning of Numbers) 

1837 Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77 

1846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US. 

1847 Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor. 

1849 The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence 

1849 Basil Zaharoff, arms dealer, "merchant of death". 

1854 The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured. 

1855 August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75. 

1857 American Chess Assn organized; inaugural major US chess tournament (NYC). 

1857 American Chess Assn organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC) 

1860 Oscar L Helfrich, Dutch governor (Curacao) 

1860 Stephen Elvey, composer, dies at 55 

1861 Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs BR Alert 

1861 Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84. 

1862 Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, US, politician/author (Progressive) 

1863 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the inaugural public bath, in Brooklyn 

1863 Battle at Baxter Springs Kansas 

1866 inaugural train robbery in US. 

1866 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13000). 

1866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice and music 

1868 Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer, dies at 51. 

1869 John Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer," premieres 

1871 Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour. 

1873 Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer. 

1874 Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer, dies at 50 

1876 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia. 

1880 Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano 

1880 Benjamin Pierce, US mathematician/astronomer, dies. 

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