Page 3: Historical Events In September - 25
Tuesday, 05 May 2026
1840 Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, soldier. 

1844 Canada defeat USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international 

1846 US troops under Gen Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico. 

1849 Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45 

1852 Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy (1910-18) 

1857 Relief of Lucknow by Havelock and Outram begins. 

1858 Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist 

1860 Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer, dies at 60. 

1861 Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves. 

1862 Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee 

1862 Leon Boellmann, French organist/composer (Variations Symphoniques). 

1866 (Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing. 

1866 Thomas Hunt Morgan, US, biologist (Nobel-1933) 

1867 Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Wash DC 

1868 The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia. 

1871 Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies. 

1872 Charles Blake Cochran, impresario 

1876 A Glabbrenner, writer, dies at 66. 

1877 Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28) 

1879 Luis da Costa, composer 

1882 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence and Worcester). 

1884 Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, Dutch educationalist. 

1886 Comedy opera "Dorothy," 1st produced in London. 

1886 Jesus Guridi, composer. 

1887 May Sutton Bundy, US, 1st US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904). 

1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (BG) 

1888 Royal Court Theatre, London, opens. 

1889 George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist/novelist. 

1890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (Calif). 

1890 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG). 

1896 Elsa Triolet, writer 

1897 1st British bus service opens. 

1897 Teddy Hart, NYC, actor (3 Men on a Horse) 

1902 Ernst von Salomon, German writer (Kette Der Tausend Kraniche). 

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