Page 3: Historical Events In September - 10
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1861 -15] Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia. 

1862 Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71. 

1863 George Bizets opera "Les Pêcheurs de Perles," premieres in Paris. 

1866 Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer. 

1867 Simon Sechter, composer, dies at 78 

1868 Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer, dies at 79 

1869 Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan 

1869 Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan 

1869 Caro Roma, composer 

1870 Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms 

1872 Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam. 

1872 Josephina "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Verdoold Sheep) 

1875 Paul Scheinpflug, composer. 

1877 Georgia B D Camp Johnson, US, poet/playwright (Autumn Love Cycle) 

1880 Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo 

1882 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests). 

1882 Paul Harvey, IL, actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree). 

1883 Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist. 

1884 Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention. 

1885 Berthold Altaner, German church historian (Patrologie). 

1886 Hilda Doolittle, US, poetess (imagisten). 

1887 Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy. 

1889 Vilem Petrzelka, composer. 

1890 Franz Werfel, Austria, author (40 Days of Musa Dagh). 

1892 Arthur H Compton, US physicist (X-rays). 

1893 Al "Fuzzy" St John, Santa Ana Calif, actor (Lash of the West). 

1894 London taxi driver George Smith is inaugural fined for drunk driving. 

1895 Harrison Millard, composer, dies at 64 

1896 Elsa Schiaparelli, French fashion designer 

1897 Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, results in the deaths of 20. 

1897 Nancy Keene Lancaster, designer/Collector 

1898 Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda 

1898 Adele Marie Astaire, Omaha NE, sister of Fred Astaire, entertainer. 

1898 Elisabeth AE, empress of Austria/wife of Franz Joseph I, dies at 60 

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