426 Historic Events for February 24
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| 1902 |
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Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British
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| 1903 |
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US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba
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| 1905 |
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Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
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| 1905 |
Birth |
E Boyland, biochemist
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| 1905 |
Birth |
Guillaume Landre, composer
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| 1906 |
Birth |
Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
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| 1907 |
Death |
Otto Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 77
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| 1908 |
Death |
Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer, dies at 66
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| 1909 |
Birth |
August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries)
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| 1909 |
Birth |
Jean Yves Morvan Marin, broadcaster
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| 1909 |
Birth |
Max Black, Dutch/British/US philosopher (analytical philosophy)
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| 1909 |
Birth |
Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist
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| 1910 |
Birth |
Lord Hazlerigg
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| 1911 |
Birth |
Konrad Lechner, composer
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Julius Kowalski, composer
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist
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| 1914 |
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Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks," premieres in NYC
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| 1914 |
Birth |
Zachary Scott, Austin Tx, actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce)
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| 1914 |
Birth |
David Langdon, cartoonist/illustrator
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| 1915 |
Birth |
Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist
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| 1916 |
Birth |
Gene Mitchell, museum director
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| 1917 |
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German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
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| 1917 |
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Russian revolution breaks out (3/8 NS)
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| 1917 |
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Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleve for $15,000
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| 1917 |
Birth |
William Fairbank, Minneapolis, physicist (superconductivity)
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