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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1945 A new commissioner of baseball was named. He was Albert B.’ Happy’ Chandler 
1945 Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner
1945 Anton de Kom, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47.
1946 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, and McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame.
1948 Joseph Wihtol, composer, dies at 84
1949 Dick Powell starred in " Richard Diamond, Private Detective" on NBC radio
1949 3rd Tony Awards: Death of a Salesman and Kiss Me Kate win.
1950 "Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 320 performances
1951 Canadian troops defend Kapyong Valley in Korea against two-day Chinese attack; suffer 10 dead, 23 wounded.
1951 In this year, Betsy Rawls claims LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf Invitational Open
1952 inaugural shipment of oil from Alberta arrives in Ontario by pipeline and lake freighter, and they still do not like the price.
1952 Raymond Burr made his TV acting debut on the " Gruen Guild Playhouse" in an episode titled, " The Tiger"
1952 Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers, physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at 57.
1953 British PM Winston Churchill knighted by the Queen.
1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1954 " Billboard" magazine, the music industry trade publication, headlined a change to come about in the music biz. The headline read, "Teenagers Demand Music with a Beat -- Spur Rhythm and Blues" . Within a year, R and B music by both black and white artists caught the public’ s fancy
1954 The inaugural American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina.
1954 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina.
1955 " X-Minus One", a show for science fiction fans, was inaugural heard on NBC radio this day
1955 Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination, ends.
1955 Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer/theater critic, dies at 79.
1956 AL ump Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game
1956 Albrecht G Alt, German theologist (Small Schriften), dies at 72.
1957 Asteroid #3648 discovered
1957 Chic Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning
1957 Andries CD de Graeff, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1926-31), dies at 84
1958 Lee Walls hits 3 HRS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2.
1959 "Your Hit Parade" ended after a nine-year run on television and many more years on radio. The show debuted in
1959 Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig and Cut Flier).
1959 Jef van Hoof, composer, dies at 72.
1960 In Southern Iran a 6.0 earthquake resulted in 420 killed, 3000 injured, and $20 million property damage at Kourdeh and Lar
1960 14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker and Fiorello! win
1960 John P "John" Musch, actor/founder (JM), dies at 84.
1961 General de Gaulle of France order a blockade of Algeria.
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