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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1925 Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912) 
1925 William Bruce, cricketer (drowns 14 Tests for Australia 1885-95), dies
1926 Tony Bennett, American singer is born.
1926 Traffic lights installed on Piccadilly Circus.
1926 Tony Bennett, Queens NY, singer (Left a body part in SF)
1927 Enrique Pinella, composer.
1928 Ray Barbuti saves US team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400 m (47.8 sec)
1928 Cécile Aubry, French actress
1929 Bethel Leslie, NYC, entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap).
1930 2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games.
1930 James Komack, NYC, writer/director/actor (Courtship of Eddie's Father).
1931 Alex Cord, [Viespi], NYC, actor (Brotherhood, Fire, Street Asylum)
1932 Elsa Martinelli, Grosseto Italy, actress (Indian Fighter).
1933 Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games (since Aug 2, 1931)
1933 Pat Crawford, cricketer (Australian pace bowler 1956).
1933 Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet), dies at 69.
1934 Three days of anti-Jewish rioting in Constantine, Algeria leave 23 Jews killed and 35 wounded. The pogroms are traced to Radio-Berlin and Radio-Stuttgart Nazi broadcasts
1934 Carl F baron von Langen-Parow, German equestrian (Olympic-gold-1928)
1936 SS Calyx, built at Eems, Germany in 1929 and renamed in 1936, she sank at the entrance to Ipswich dock. Declared a total loss and later broken up at Ipswich
1936 The U.S. State Department urges Americans living in Spain to leave because of the Spanish civil war.
1938 Alexander Malyschkin, writer, dies.
1939 Jean Genets "Ondine," premieres in Paris.
1939 Eugust Enna, composer, dies at 80
1940 Lithuanian is accepted into the USSR
1940 Martin Sheen, American actor is born.
1940 German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters and English and French movies
1940 Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cin Reds), commits suicide
1941 Benzine sales limited in US
1943 A private in an army hospital in Sicily is slapped by U.S. General George S. Patton, who accused the soldier of cowardice. Patton later apologized for the incident, at the request of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1943 Gen Patton slaps a US GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice
1944 Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma.
1944 Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz
1946 Belgian govt of Huysmans, forms
1948 Cleveland's Satchel Paige make his 1st start and goes 7 innings.
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