Page 3: Historical Events In September - 09
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1853 Frederick R Spofforth, Australia, cricketer (Demon) 

1855 Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist. 

1858 Benjamin Kidel, English Sudan (Control of the Tropics). 

1861 Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer. 

1862 Lee splits his army and sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry 

1863 Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN. 

1865 Edwin Lehare, composer 

1866 Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czech poet/translator, dies at 65 

1867 Luxembourg gains independence. 

1868 Mary Austin, Ill, feminist/nature writer (Land of Little Rain) 

1872 Delilah L Beasley, US author/columnist (Negro trail-blazers). 

1873 Edward Burlingame Hill, composer. 

1875 Lotta's Fountain (Kearny and Market) dedicated. 

1876 American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle. 

1877 Frank Chance, baseball player/manager, Tinkers to Evers to Chance. 

1878 Jacobo Ficher, composer, dies at 18 

1880 President Hayes visits SF. 

1880 Viking Eggeling, Sweden, artist/film maker (Diagonal Symphony) 

1881 Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid". 

1886 The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized 

1887 Alfred M Landon, (R-Ks) pres candidate (1932, 1936). 

1888 John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71 

1890 Harland Sanders, Henryville Ind, colonel/CEO (Kentucky Fried Chicken). 

1892 Almalthea, 5th moon of Jupiter, discovered by EE Barnard at Lick 

1892 Almalthea, a moon orbiting the planet Jupiter, discovered 

1892 E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon 

1892 Bruno Sturmer, composer 

1895 American Bowling Congress forms (NYC). 

1896 Fritz Reuter, composer. 

1898 Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders. 

1898 Frank "Fordham Flash" Frisch, NYC, baseball player (NL MVP 1931) 

1899 French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds. 

1899 Louis Cheslock, composer. 

1900 James Hilton, English novelist (Goodbye Mr Chips). 

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