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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Dec 11 Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish poet (Barfotabarn). 
Dec 12 1st 1st-class game between NSW and Tasmania.
Dec 13 Daniel Lazarus, composer.
Dec 13 George Frederick Bristow, composer, dies at 72
Dec 13 inaugural passenger train over the newly reconstructed Victoria Railway Bridge, Montreal. The original 1859 tube had been replaced by a double track steel bridge.
Dec 14 Frederick Douglass Hall, composer.
Dec 15 Fernando Remacha, composer.
Dec 18 At a site near Paris, France, Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the world's inaugural official automobile land speed record of 39 miles per hour.
Dec 18 Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph)
Dec 18 Jacob Kruijt, Dutch sociologist.
Dec 20 Irene [Marie] Dunne, Louisville, actress (Show Boat, I Remember Mama)
Dec 21 Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar).
Dec 21 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovers radium.
Dec 24 Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer, dies at 41
Dec 24 Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto," premieres in Amsterdam
Dec 25 Theo Swagemakers, Dutch portrait painter.
Dec 26 Radium, the radioactive element, discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie.
Dec 29 Georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74
Dec 29 Jeanne Leleu, composer.
Dec 30 Vincent Lopez, Bkln NY, orch leader (Welcome Aboard)
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