Page 4: Historical Events In September - 01
Friday, 20 February 2026
1859 RC Carrington and R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare 

1859 1st Pullman sleeping car in service 

1861 Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI 

1862 Severe action at Chantilly, Virginia. 

1862 Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties) 

1862 Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist 

1862 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44. 

1863 RR and ferry connection between SF and Oakland inaugurated. 

1863 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia 

1864 2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3000 casualties. 

1864 Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916) 

1865 Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery 

1866 Last Navaho chief Manuelito, turns self in at Fort Wingate 

1866 James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97) 

1867 Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School 

1867 Edward Hodges, composer, dies at 71. 

1870 Napoleon III captured at Sedan 

1870 Timotei Popovici, composer. 

1873 Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande 

1873 Guy Standing, English actor (Cradle Song). 

1874 Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia. 

1874 28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Conn takes office. 

1874 Heinrich Otto Ludwig, composer. 

1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, American novelist is born 

1875 A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband 

1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, US, sci-fi author (Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga) 

1878 In this year, The inaugural female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) 

1878 In this year, 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) 

1880 Antoon Jurgens, margarine maker, dies at 75 

1886 Neth's New Code of Criminal law enforced. 

1886 Othmar Schoeck, composer. 

1887 Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established 

1887 Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet/writer. 

1887 Yellow River flood in China killing 2000000 people. 

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