Page 4: Historical Events In September - 09
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1901 French painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec dies. 

1901 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36. 

1902 Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, gov of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53. 

1903 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated 

1904 New York City employs mounted police for the inaugural time 

1904 Mounted police 1st used in NYC 

1905 Hussain Sha. 

1907 Leon Edel, biographer. 

1908 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va 

1908 Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (La belle estate). 

1909 Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title 

1909 Jane Baxter, [Feodora Forde], Bremen Germany, actress (We Live Again). 

1911 The inaugural airmail service (British Post Office) 

1911 1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England). 

1912 J Verdrines is recorded as becoming 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph). 

1912 Kurt Sanderling, Arys Germany, conductor (E Berlin Symph 1960-77) 

1913 Assn for Study of Negro Life and History organizes in Chicago. 

1913 Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician, dies 

1914 -12] Belgian offensive from Antwerp 

1915 German Zepplins bomb London. 

1915 Assn for study of Negro Life and History forms by Carter G Woodson. 

1918 Dutch govt of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms. 

1919 Boston's police force goes on strike 

1919 Boston's police force forms strike. 

1919 Jacques Marin, Paris, actor (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo) 

1920 Michael Aldridge, Glastonbury England, actor (Murder in Cathedral) 

1921 Andrzej Dobrowolski, composer. 

1922 St Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0. 

1922 Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat. 

1923 Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2) 

1923 Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 

1924 Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii. 

1924 Jane Greer, Wash DC, actress (Prisoner of Zenda, Clown). 

1925 Cliff Robertson, La Jolla Calif, actor (Charly)/spokesman for AT and T 

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