Page 3: Historical Events In September - 21
Friday, 20 February 2026
1837 Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry and china stores. 

1839 Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60 

1840 Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876). 

1843 David Emlyn Evans, composer 

1849 Edmund Gosse, London, translator/critic (Father and Son) 

1853 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (liquid helium, Nobel 1913) 

1859 Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (Sursum Corda, Ace Knave) 

1860 In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the battle of Baliqiao. 

1863 Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga. 

1866 H.G Wells, English writer is born. 

1866 Charles Jean Henri Nicolle France, bacteriologist (Nobel-1928). 

1867 Henry Lewis Stimson, US minister of War (1911-13) 

1869 Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer 

1871 Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier 

1872 John Henry Conyers of SC is recorded as becoming inaugural black student at Annapolis. 

1872 John Henry Conyers of SC is recorded as becoming 1st black student at Annapolis 

1874 Gustav Theodore Holst, Cheltenham, England, composer (Planets) 

1874 JBAL Leonce Elie the Beaumont, French geologist, dies at 75. 

1880 Henry Louis Mencken, US essayist/critic (American Mercury) 

1882 Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer. 

1883 1st direct US-Brazil telegraph connection. 

1883 Johannes van Vloten, Dutch man of letters/theologist, dies at 65 

1884 Hugh "Shorty" Ray, supervisor of NFL officials, HOF member. 

1885 Dutch demonstrate for general voting right 

1885 Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer 

1886 Teiichi Igarashi, Japan, climed Mt Fuji at age 99 

1887 Lodewijk de Vocht, composer 

1889 Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat/genealogist 

1893 Frank Duryea drives inaugural US made gas propelled vehicle (car). 

1893 Frank Duryea drives 1st US made gas propelled vehicle (car) 

1893 Moses Pergament, composer 

1894 Tullio Carminati, Zara Dalmatia Italy, actor (Roman Holiday). 

1895 The inaugural auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company. 

1895 1st auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company. 

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