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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1963 Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?". 
1964 Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" opens in NYC
1964 Race riot in Paterson NJ
1965 In this year, 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
1965 Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC
1965 Bill Woodfull, cricketer (35 Tests for Australia), dies
1966 Indonesian Malaysian peace agreement signed in Djakarta.
1966 Last Beatle concert tour of the US begins.
1968 Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian biblical scholar, dies
1972 Max Theiler, S Afr/US microbiologist (vaccin-Nobel 1951), dies at 73.
1973 Peggy Castle, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman), dies of cirrhosis at 46
1974 Head-on collision between two buses results in the deaths of 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
1974 Jack Hill, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1953-55, 8 wickets), dies.
1975 US vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to UN.
1975 Anthony C McAuliffe, US gen/commandant 101st div (Nuts!), dies at 77
1976 Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami.
1977 The inaugural CH-46E Sea Knight with newly developed fiberglass rotor blades was flown by Marine Corps helicopter pilots
1978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI
1982 Tom Drake, actor (Green Years, Warkill), dies of lung cancer at 63
1984 In this year, Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, claims 4 Olym track golds.
1984 During a radio voice test Pres Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
1984 Alfred A Knopf, US publisher, dies at 91.
1985 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
1987 Clara Peller, commercial spokesperson (Wendy's), dies at 86
1988 Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament.
1988 Anne Ramsey, actress (Throw Mama From Train), dies of cancer at 59.
1989 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5 The Dream Child" premiers
1989 Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
1989 John Meillon, actor (Wild Duck, Crocodile Dundee), dies.
1989 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" premiers.
1990 Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion.
1991 Jef Contryn, Flemish pioneer puppet theatre, dies at 89.
1994 History was made on August 11, 1994, when the inaugural retail transaction on the Internet was carried out using a readily available version of powerful data encryption software designed to guarantee privacy
1994 Dorothy Lousie Grenfell Williams, broadcaster, dies at 60.
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