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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida 
1970 Anna Casati, Italian marchesa, murdered at 41.
1972 David Barrett 1930- leads the NDP to victory over WAC Bennett's Social Credit Party, taking 39 seats in the British Columbia provincial election; upsetting 20 years of Socred rule.
1973 Kenya bans the hunting of elephants and the trade in ivory
1974 Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153.
1974 Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Leeuwenhoek), dies at 87
1976 Tom Brokaw is recorded as becoming news anchor of the Today Show.
1976 USS Oriskany, the last of the Essex-class attack carriers, was decommissioned at San Francisco and placed in the mothball fleet. Oriskany saw extensive action in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
1979 A U.S. Navy CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter of VR-24 lifted a 12-foot bronze statue of the Madonna and Child to the top of Mt. Tiberius on Capri, Italy, to replace one which had been destroyed by lightning. The statue was too large to be transported overland
1979 The inaugural prototype of the Navy's SH-60B Seahawk helicopter was unveiled at the Sikorsky Aircraft Division at Stratford, Connecticut.
1979 The inaugural recorded occurrence-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
1981 In Iran, the President and Prime Minister are killed by a bomb
1981 Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
1982 Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor, dies at 86.
1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days).
1983 Guion S. Bluford Jr, the inaugural African-American astronaut, blasts off as a crewmember aboard the space shuttle Challenger
1983 Guy Bluford is recorded as becoming the inaugural black American in space
1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days).
1986 In Romania a 6.9 earthquake killed 2 people, 558 injured, and about 55000 homes damaged, leaving more than 12500 people homeless in the Kishinev-Kagul area.
1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
1986 US News and World Report correspondent Nicholas Daniloff is arrested by Soviet authorities for suspicion of spying.
1986 Otto Mortensen, composer, dies at 79.
1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
1987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump women's record (6'10¬").
1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
1988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills.
1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner.
1989 Joe De Santis, dies at 80
1991 Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8812 points.
1991 France beats US by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14« to 13«
1991 Alan Wheatley
1993 Richard Jordan, US actor (Hunt for Red October, Posse), dies at 55
1994 Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic (If ...), dies at 71.
1995 Dame Pattie Maie Menzies, Australian, dies at 96.
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