Page 3: Historical Events In September - 07
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1879 Nachman N "Neddy" Bamberg, Dutch actor (Haddock Mary). 

1880 Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters 

1880 Attilio Brugnoli, composer 

1881 Constantly WL Scheurleer, Dutch archaeologist/banker/art expert 

1881 Sidney Clopton Lanier, composer, dies at 39 

1882 Johanna F Zandstra-Giezen, oldest person in Netherland (died at 111) 

1885 Harry Sinclair Lewis, US, writer (Babbitt, Nobel 1930). 

1887 Edith L Sitwell, English poetess/author (Wheels). 

1888 Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby place in an incubator 

1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of The Engineer's Thumb" (BG) 

1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Engineer's Thumb" (BG). 

1889 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder/director (KLM). 

1891 Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria 

1891 Roscoe Karns, San Bernadino Calif, actor (Capt Shafer-Hennesey). 

1892 James J Corbett kayos John L Sullivan in round 21 at New Orleans 

1892 James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title. 

1892 John G Whittier, US poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies 

1893 Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Minister of Transport. 

1896 A. H. Whiting won 1st closed-circuit auto race held 

1896 The inaugural auto race held at a race track takes place today in Cranston, RI. 

1896 1st closed-circuit auto race, at Cranston, RI. 

1897 George Davis (Giants) HR off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH 

1899 Leendert A Donker, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA) 

1900 "Janet" Taylor Caldwell, England, novelist (Melissa) 

1901 Peace of Peking 

1902 Roy Barcroft, [Howard Ravenscroft], Crab Orchard NE, actor (Freckles). 

1902 Franz Wullner, composer, dies at 70 

1903 Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY. 

1905 John Whitley, British air-marshal. 

1906 Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the inaugural time successfully. 

1906 Filip Gershkovich, composer 

1907 Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire 

1907 Ahmet Adnan Saygun, composer. 

1907 R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies 

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