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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Apr 10 Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer. 
Apr 10 Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper owner is born.
Apr 13 Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Neth East-Indies)
Apr 13 Naval Forces begin 5 day battle to capture several towns in Mexico.
Apr 14 Persia and Osmaanse sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum.
Apr 23 Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64.
Apr 28 George B Vashon is recorded as becoming 1st black to enter NY State Bar
Apr 30 Charles L J, archduke of Austria/gov-gen (Austria-Netherland), dies.
May 02 Sabbath famine.
May 04 New York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration.
May 04 NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration.
May 05 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
May 05 The American Medical Association was organized in Philadelphia, PA.
May 07 American Medical Association organizes (Phila).
May 07 Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British PM (1894-95).
May 08 Robert Thompson patents rubber tire.
May 13 Johannes Haarklou, composer
May 14 Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, composer, dies at 41.
May 16 Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59
May 20 Mary Lamb, writer, dies
May 25 Alphonse Goovaerts, composer.
May 30 Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence
May 31 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
Jun 06 Gerben Postma, [Ids], Frisian writer (Swealtsjeblommen).
Jun 08 Ida Sazton McKinley, 1st lady (1897-1901).
Jun 09 Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Orphée), dies
Jun 10 Chicago Tribune begins publishing
Jun 11 Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader (English women's movement)
Jun 14 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide
Jun 14 Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
Jun 22 Doughnut created
Jun 24 Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer
Jun 27 NY and Boston linked by telegraph wires.
Jun 28 Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer
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