Page 2: Historical Events In September - 19
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1822 Joseph Rodman West, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 

1824 Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer 

1830 Stanislas Champein, composer, dies at 76 

1833 Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina. 

1836 Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer, dies at 66 

1837 Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer. 

1838 Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake 

1839 George Cadbury, English founder of 'Cadburys' chocolates is born 

1846 Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elopes. 

1848 Bond (US) and Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn 

1848 Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) and Lassell (England) 

1849 inaugural commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California 

1849 1st commercial laundry established, in Oaklan, California 

1854 Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car 

1862 Battle of Luka, Miss. 

1862 -20] Battle at Blackford's Ford Virginia 

1862 Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Benton County IA, actress (Son of Dracula). 

1862 [Lewis] Henry Little, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45. 

1863 Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat 

1863 Battle of Chickamauga GA (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat. 

1863 Preston Smith, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 39. 

1864 Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia 

1864 3rd Battle of Winchester Virginia (Opequon, 3rd Winchester). 

1864 Archibald Campbell Godwin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle 

1865 Atlanta University forms. 

1867 Arthur Rackham, England, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales). 

1870 Siege of Paris begins 

1871 Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis) 

1873 Black Friday Jay Cooke and Co fails, causing a securities panic. 

1873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke and Co fails, causing a securities panic. 

1876 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich) 

1879 Thomas Ray is recorded as becoming youngest to break a world track and field record pole-vaulting 11' 2½" at age 17 years and 198 days. 

1881 James A Garfield, 20th president (1881), dies of gunshot wound at 49. 

1882 Paul-Marie Masson, composer 

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