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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1952 "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 90 performances. 
1953 WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 Kishio Hirao, composer, dies at 46
1954 Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter was featured on Walt Disney’s TV series for the inaugural time. Crockett was played by Fess Parker.
1954 Netherlands Antilles is recorded as becoming co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
1954 Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
1956 Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes.
1959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me".
1960 King Boudouin of Belgium marries dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon.
1961 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel.
1961 William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99
1962 Vaughn Meader's "The inaugural Family," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 12 wks
1962 Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63.
1964 In this year, Canada formally adopts maple leaf flag.
1964 Maple Leaf' formally adopted as the symbol for the Canadian national flag
1965 3rd cyclone of year results in the deaths of another 10000 at mouths of Ganges River, Bangladesh
1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes inaugural rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
1965 In the inaugural raid on a major North Vietnamese industrial target, U.S. Air Force planes destroy a thermal power plant at Uong Bi, l4 miles north of Haiphong. The plant reportedly supplied about 15 percent of North Vietnam's total electric power production
1966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
1966 One of the greatest names in children’s television and movie production died on this day. Walt (Walter Elias) Disney died in Burbank, California. Mr. Disney was 65 years old
1966 Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation.
1967 Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again".
1967 The Silver Bridge across the Ohio River collapsed during rush hour. Dozens of cars fell into the icy water. Forty-six people lost their lives in the accident, and many others were injured.
1968 Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86
1969 In this year, San Francisco Fire Department adopts in place of leather helmets with plastic ones
1970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
1970 Soviet Venera 7 is inaugural spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus).
1972 Edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), dies at 90
1973 Jean Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is are discovered alive in southern Italy five months after his kidnapping
1973 Pirates of Caribbean opens at Disneyland.
1973 Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer, dies at 61
1974 Erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83.
1975 Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63
1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when the ship runs aground.
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