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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1729 George Wilhelm Gruber, composer 
1733 Polish King Lesczynski flees to Danzig
1733 Anton Filtz, composer.
1735 Robert Walpole is 1st British PM to live at 10 Downing Street
1737 Francesco Mancini, composer, dies at 65.
1738 Dionysius G Van de Keessel, lawyer (Theses Selectae)
1741 Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist (Siberia/Krim)
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army returns to Edinburgh
1753 Pangeran Gusti installed as sultan of Banten
1756 Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University
1757 Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings).
1761 Coronation of George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte.
1774 Clement XIV, [Giovanni Ganganelli], Pope (1769-74), dies.
1776 American patriot, captain Nathan Hale executed for spying.
1776 Nathan Hale, US captain/patriot/spy, hanged by British at 21.
1784 Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK.
1789 Office of Postmaster General of the US established by Congress.
1789 Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department
1791 Michael Faraday (chemist, physicist) born
1791 Michael Faraday, English physicist is born
1791 Michael Faraday, discovered principle of electric motor
1792 Origin of French Republican Era
1796 Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880
1796 George Wilhelm Gruber, composer, dies on 67th birthday
1814 A W Iffland, writer, dies
1817 John Quincy Adams is recorded as becoming secretary of State.
1822 Brig Gen Eppa Hunton, fought in most ANV campaigns
1826 J P Hebel, writer, dies at 66
1827 John Grubb Parke, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900.
1828 Shaka, South African Zulu king, dies
1829 William Worth Belknap, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1833 Stephen Dill Lee, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1908
1849 John Godden, English explorer (Curacao)
1851 The city of Des Moines, Iowa was incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
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