Page 7: Historical Events In December - 06
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1974 In this year, George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" 

1975 H-46 Sea Knight helicopters from NAS Whidbey Island began search and rescue operations in the northwestern Washington state areas flooded by heavy rains 

1977 South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence 

1980 Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn 

1980 NASA launches Intelsat V. 

1982 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland 

1982 Sen Ted and Joan Kennedy divorce. 

1983 A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, results in the deaths of 6 Israelis. 

1984 Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage 

1984 Ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at 90 

1985 John Cougar Mellencamp promised 24000 people at a New York City concert that he would refund their $17.50 tickets. A power outage had caused a 20-minute interruption during this, his debut concert 

1985 UK joins US Star Wars project. 

1985 Burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher, dies at 92 

1986 Malik Oussekine, Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22 

1987 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun" 

1987 James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies. 

1988 Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden 

1988 Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown 

1988 STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission. 

1988 Bill Harris, US guitarist (Clovers-Love Potion No 9), dies at 63. 

1989 Worst Canadian mass murder - man results in the deaths of 14 women at University of Montreal 

1989 Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry), dies at 86. 

1990 Saddam anounces release of all foreign hostages. 

1990 Tunku Abdul Rahman, PM of Malaysia (1957-70), dies. 

1991 "Star Trek VI-The Undiscovered Country" premieres. 

1991 Brooke Ashley Meadowcroft is born Salt Lake City, Utah. 

1991 Ann Sorg Coston, actress (Anna-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 

1992 Riots follow Hindu attack on Ayodha Mosque in India 

1992 Hank Worden, actor (Red River), dies of natural leads to at 91. 

1993 Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon), dies of prostate cancer at 85 

1994 Apple filed a lawsuit against a San Francisco software firm called Canyon Co., alleging the company had stolen thousands of lines of code from Apple's QuickTime for Windows 

1994 AJ Bronkhorst, vicar/theologist (Reform The Netherlands), dies at 80 

1995 After a long and heated debate, House and Senate committee members agreed on the final wording of the Communications Decency Act, which made it a crime to provide pornography to minors over the Internet. 

1995 Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian, dies at 67 

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