Page 2: Historical Events In 1887
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Feb 03 To avoid disputed natl elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act 


Feb 04 Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads 


Feb 05 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy 


Feb 05 Snow falls on San Francisco 


Feb 08 Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minn became the 1st US ski club 


Feb 08 Dawes Act passed (Indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship). 


Feb 09 Henry Zimmerman, baseball player (1912-batted .372 with 14 HRs). 


Feb 10 Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73 


Feb 10 [Fran J] Vital Celen, Flemish literary/author [or Feb 9]. 


Feb 11 John van Melle, South African writer (Dawid Booysen). 


Feb 13 Alvin York, famed US soldier with 25 results in the deaths of in WW I 


Feb 14 Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10000 


Feb 15 Alexander Borodin, composer, dies 


Feb 15 H M Bateman, Sutton Forest NSW, cartoonist. 


Feb 16 1st newspaper convention (Rochester NY). 


Feb 17 Leevi Antti Madetoja, composer 


Feb 18 Nikos Kasandsakis, writer 


Feb 19 Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66 


Feb 20 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh) 


Feb 20 David McKinley Williams, composer. 


Feb 20 Germany, Austria-Hungary and France end Triple Alliance. 


Feb 21 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn) 


Feb 21 inaugural US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn). 


Feb 21 Oregon is recorded as becoming inaugural US state to make Labor Day a holiday. 


Feb 21 Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player 


Feb 22 Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award). 


Feb 22 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati 


Feb 23 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco. 


Feb 23 Congress grants Seal Rocks to SF 


Feb 23 French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2000 die 


Feb 23 Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer 


Feb 24 Mary Ellen Chase, US linguistic/author (White Gate) 


Feb 25 Leonard Carey, England, actor (Laughter) 


Feb 26 Benegal Narsing Rau, India, pres of UN Security Council (1950) 


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