Page 3: Historical Events In September - 05
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1864 British, French and Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits. 

1867 Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, composer 

1875 Napoleon "Larry" Lajoie, RI, hall of fame shortstop (.426 in 1901). 

1877 Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas. 

1877 O W Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher 

1877 Crazy Horse, [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27. 

1881 Otto Bauer, Austrian social-democrat 

1882 10000 workers participate in the inaugural US Labor Day parade, held in New York City. 

1882 10000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC 

1883 Otto E Deutsch, Austrian musicologist (Schubert-Brevier) 

1885 The inaugural gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind). 

1885 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind). 

1885 John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (National monument on the Dam) 

1887 Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200. 

1888 Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, president (India)/philosopher 

1890 Albert H Edelkoort, theologist (Zondebesef). 

1890 Ludwig Deppe, composer, dies at 61 

1892 Joseph Szigeti, Budapest Hungary, violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933) 

1895 George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC. 

1897 Doris Kenyon, Syracuse NY, silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton). 

1898 Ebbe Hamerik, composer 

1898 Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies 

1900 France proclaims a protectorate over Chad 

1901 The inaugural US professional baseball league is established, in Chicago, IL. 

1901 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms 

1901 Florence Elridge, Bkln NY, actress (Long Days Journey into the Night). 

1902 Daryl F. Zanuck, American film producer is born 

1902 Darryl F Zanuck, film magnate/president (20th Century Fox) 

1905 The war in Korea and Manchuria, between Japan and Russian, ends 

1905 Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War. 

1905 Lillian Mortimer's "No Mother to Guide," premieres in Detroit. 

1905 Arthur Koestler, Hungary, British writer (Arrow in Blue) 

1906 1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider) 

1906 Peter Mieg, composer 

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