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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1974 Nelson Rockefeller sworn in as American Vice-President 
1974 The personal computer revolution was launched quietly on this day when the Altair 8800, a do-it-yourself computer kit, went on sale for $397.
1975 John Paul Stevens is recorded as becoming a Supreme Court Justice.
1977 Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor, dies at 101
1979 The Senate green lighted a $1.5 billion loan to help put the auto maker Chrysler back on its feet. In the short term, though, the loan did little to staunch the bleeding
1980 Anguilla is recorded as becoming a British dependency separate from St Kitts
1980 Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages.
1982 Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer, dies at 71
1983 After a grueling and sometimes bloody six weeks on the picket line, striking Greyhound workers agreed to sign off on a new contract and head back to work
1984 Fire at the Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people.
1984 Michel Magne, composer, dies at 54.
1985 ABC Sports announced that it was severing ties with Howard Cosell and released ‘The Mouth’ from all TV commitments
1985 ABC Sports announces that sportscaster Howard Cosell will no longer be providing television commentary.
1985 NFL kicker Jan Stenerud announces his retirement, leaving behind a record of most career field goals (373).
1986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
1988 NASA unveils plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars
1988 Unexploded WW II bomb are discovered in Frankfurt, Germany-5000 evacuated.
1989 American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route.
1989 Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87.
1990 Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at 71.
1991 6000th episode of One Life To Live.
1991 Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin.
1991 Ernest K Gann, US adventure novelist, dies at 81
1993 Anthonius AM "Ton" Kors, writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47.
1994 Great Britain's prestigious Rolls-Royce, a luxury automobile maker, announced that its future cars would feature 12-cylinder motors manufactured by Germany's BMW.
1994 Noel Pointer, jazz violinist, dies at 39.
1995 Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados, dies at 79.
1996 Marcello Mastroiani, actor (8½, Assassin, Family Diary), dies at 72.
1997 David Norman Schramm, physicist, dies at 52
2005 Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth; b. 1933)
2006 A Libyan court sentences five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for knowingly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV
2007 A presidential election takes place in South Korea. Former mayor of Seoul Lee Myung-bak, of the Grand National Party, won with 50% of the vote against two other major opponents
2007 An explosion and fire at the T2 Laboratories facility in Jacksonville, Florida results in the deaths of 4 and injures 14
2007 The Flying Phantom sinks in the River Clyde, three crew are killed
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