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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1979 Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer (2 Tests for India, avg 205), dies. 
1980 At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
1980 Elston Howard, MVP catcher (NY Yankees), dies at 59
1981 Israel annexes Golan Heights.
1985 NY Yankees great Roger Maris dies of cancer at age 51
1985 Roger Maris, HR hitter (61 in 61, NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 51
1986 The experimental aircraft Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, takes flight from Edwards Air Force Base (CA) on the inaugural non-stop, self-contained (i.e., no aerial refueling) flight around the world.
1987 In the worst attack on merchant shipping in the 'Gulf War', 21 crewmen from a Norwegian tanker are killed
1987 Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies
1988 Spanish general strike to protest austerity measures.
1988 US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs).
1989 Andrei D. Sakharov, author and Nobel laureate, dies in Moscow at age 68
1989 Movie actor Jock Mahoney (Dallas, Tarzan) dies at age 70.
1989 Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68.
1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later.
1990 F Dörrenmatt, writer, dies at 69
1991 476 die when the ferry boat Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea.
1991 In this year, Desmond Howard of Michigan claims the Heisman trophy.
1991 John Arlott, cricketer (the greatest of cricket commentators), dies
1993 Actress Myrna Loy dies at age 88
1993 Myrna Loy, [Williams], US actress (Jazz Singer), dies at 88.
1994 Mary Ann McCall, singer, dies at 75.
1995 After sixty-nine grueling days on the picket line, machinists for the Boeing Company gave the go-ahead to a new contract on this day in 1995
1995 Don Anthony, bandleader/songwriter, dies at 85
1996 Alan Hargreaves, climber, dies at 92.
1997 Owen Barfield, philosopher of language, dies at 99.
1998 IXC Communications announced it had turned on a new coast-to-coast data network that it hoped would serve as the backbone for the next generation Internet
2007 FAI World Grand Prix Gliding Championship at Omarama, New Zealand.
2012 28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut
2014 ShinzÅ Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party win re-election in Japan, retaining their two-thirds majority with coalition partner New KÅmeitÅ Party
2017 The Vatican announces it has rediscovered the lost last paintings of Raphael in Vatican Museum, painted 1520.
2017 The Walt Disney Company buys most of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion.
2017 US media regulator the Federal Communications Commission votes to end net neutrality.
2017 Train ploughs into a school bus cutting it in half, killing 4 children and injuring 20 near Perpignan, France
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