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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1966 Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist, dies at 57 
1967 Beatles clothing store "Apple" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens.
1968 Rolling Stones release "Beggar's Banquet" LP.
1968 Fred Clark, actor (Zotz, Auntie Mame), dies of liver ailment at 54.
1970 A North Vietnamese newspaper declares that the country will not be intimidated by U.S. bombing threats.
1971 Hugh Wakefield, actress (Blithe Spirit), dies
1973 In this year, Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
1974 Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran).
1974 Seattle Seahawks formed
1974 Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, tennis player (US Open 1909-11), dies at 87.
1975 NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed
1975 Jimmy Nervo, actor (Frozen Limits), dies
1977 Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and S Yemen
1977 The Plymouth Horizon was introduced on this day. It was the inaugural American-made small car with front-wheel drive. Technical advances in drive technology had reduced the size and cost of front-wheel drive systems.
1978 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus.
1980 Don Taylor, cricketer (3 Tests for NZ 1947-56, 159 runs), dies
1983 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut.
1983 Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Steve Howe is suspended for 1 year for cocaine use
1983 Robert Aldrich, dir/producer (Last Sunset), dies at 65.
1985 Beverly McLachlin is the inaugural woman appointed to the B.C. Court of Appeal, the province's highest court.
1985 Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above the 1500 level for inaugural time
1986 Carmol Taylor, country songwriter, dies at 53 of cancer
1987 "Fat" Larry James, US drummer (Fat Larry's Band-Zoom), dies at 38
1988 Shuttle Atlantis launches world's inaugural nuclear-war-fighting satellite
1989 John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies at 68
1990 Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty.
1990 The Canadian Broadcast Corp. cuts its spending by $108 million, slashes 1100 jobs and closes or reduces regiona news bureaus to 11 stations
1990 Steven Shaw, dies at 25
1991 Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings and Loan fraud), are discovered guilty.
1991 New York Daily News files for protection under chapter 11 dec06.
1991 Aad Mansfield, soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies
1992 Hilary Tindall, dies of cancer at 54
1993 Alexandre Trauber, Hungarian/French set designer (Harem), dies at 87.
1994 Harry Horner, Czech/US set designer/director (Our Town), dies at 84
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