Page 4: Historical Events In September - 03
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1901 Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony. 

1901 Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician/conductor 

1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client" 

1902 Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season) 

1902 Mantan Moreland, Monroe LA, comedian (Charlie Chan, Spirit of Youth). 

1903 Resolute beats Shamrock III (England) in 13th America's Cup. 

1903 Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian. 

1904 St Louis Olympics close 

1904 St Louis Olympics closes 

1905 Carl David Anderson, NYC, physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics). 

1906 Phila Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Phila before 10000 fans 

1907 Andrew Brewin, Canada, lawyer/cofound New Democratic Party 

1908 James Barries "What Every Woman Knows," premieres in London. 

1908 Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Dutch East-Indies), dies. 

1910 Dorothy Maynor, Norfolk Va, soprano/founder (Harlem School of Arts) 

1911 31st US Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62). 

1912 World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy, they use lead toseaal the cans!!. 

1912 Arnold Schoenberg's "Funf Orchesterstucke," premieres. 

1913 Alan Ladd, American film actor is born. 

1913 Alan Ladd, Hot Springs AR, actor (Shane, Carpetbaggers) 

1914 British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne 

1914 Kitty Carlisle Hart, New Orleans La, actress (Animal Crackers) 

1914 Ferdinand AR Cabrera, Spanish/German of emperor Wilhelm II, dies at 58 

1915 Abel Ehrlich, composer. 

1916 Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun. 

1916 Memphis Slim, [Peter Chatman], rocker. 

1917 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes 

1917 Eddie "Brat" Stanky, Phil Rizzuto's nemisis/2nd baseman (Dodgers) 

1917 Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed 

1918 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917. 

1918 38th US Mens Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden (63 61 75). 

1918 Helen Wagner, Lubbock Tx, actress (Nancy-As The World Turns). 

1921 16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York (5-0). 

1922 Rosendo Ejercito Santos, composer 

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