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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1935 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1344 Caubeta 
1935 2nd Golf Masters Championship: Gene Sarazen claims, shooting a 282.
1935 Edwin Cannan, economist, dies.
1936 Orissa constituted a province of British India.
1937 M Laugier discovers asteroid #1426 Riviera.
1937 Seymour Hersh, American journalist is born
1937 Arthur William Foote, US organist/composer, dies at 84.
1938 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY.
1938 Harold Baumgartner, cricketer (took 2-99 lefty in test for S Af), dies.
1939 US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war.
1939 ACV soccer team forms in Axes
1940 HMS GLOWWORM (Lt Cdr Gerard Roope+, awarded VC), sunk , NW of Trondheim in Norwegian Sea by German 8in-gunned heavy cruiser 'Admiral Hipper'. Detached from screen for British minelaying operations to search for man overboard at time of German invasion of Norway; 40 survivors. 'Hipper' damaged when rammed by 'Glowworm'
1940 Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
1941 Earle Graser, the eight-year voice of the radio program, "The Lone Ranger", died in an auto accident
1941 Navy takes over Treasure Island (SF Bay).
1941 Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title.
1942 A Schoenberg and Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire," premieres in NYC.
1942 Alfred Mombert, writer, dies.
1943 Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma
1943 Paul Colin, Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed.
1945 US forces launch invasion of Okinawa during WW II
1945 Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands
1946 400000 US mine workers strike.
1946 Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo Hawaii.
1946 United Nations assemble for inaugural time
1946 League of Nations assembles for last time
1947 The inaugural illustrated insurance policy was issued by the Allstate Insurance Company
1947 Largest recorded sunspot (7000) observed
1947 Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars), dies
1948 Soen Nakagawa and Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in SF.
1948 Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer (Guldkedjan), dies at 40.
1950 Charles R Drew surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45.
1950 Unarmed Navy patrol aircraft shot down over Baltic Sea by USSR.
1950 "Miss Liberty" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances.
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