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Thursday, 19 February 2026
Dec 11 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala. 
Dec 13 Amintore Galli, composer, dies at 74.
Dec 13 Ross and Smith land in Australia from a flight from London.
Dec 14 Shirley Jackson, US, writer (Road Through the Wall)
Dec 15 Ake Seyffarth, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1948).
Dec 15 Edna St Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in NYC
Dec 16 Manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], Dutch folk vocalist (Small Yodel Boy)
Dec 17 Austria parliament approves 8-hour day
Dec 18 Anita O'Day, Chicago, big band jazz singer (Gene Krupa, Stan Kanton).
Dec 18 Horatio William Parker, composer, dies at 56
Dec 19 American Meteorological Society are discovered.
Dec 20 Canadian National Railways established (N America's longest, 50000 KM)
Dec 20 Canadian Natl Railways established (N America's longest, 50000 KM).
Dec 21 Gert Fredriksson, Sweden, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56).
Dec 21 J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia.
Dec 22 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland).
Dec 22 US deports 250 alien radicals
Dec 23 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
Dec 23 inaugural hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
Dec 24 John D. Rockefeller, the world's richest man, gave away one-hundred million dollars and I missed it
Dec 26 Yanks and Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth.
Dec 27 Achilles Alferaki, composer, dies at 73.
Dec 27 Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season.
Dec 28 Inocenti Carreno, composer.
Dec 29 Pieter Terpstra, Dutch journalist/writer (De dei is forroun/Havank-T)
Dec 30 David Valentine Willcocks, composer.
Dec 30 Lincoln's Inn in London admits its inaugural female bar student
Dec 31 Tommy Byrne, American baseball player.
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