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Thursday, 24 September 2026
1977 Johann Nepomuk David, composer, dies at 82. 
1979 Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century Fox), dies at 77
1980 Eisenhower returned to Norfolk, Virginia after a 251-day deployment, the longest underway deployment for a Navy ship since World War II. She had been underway for 152 continuous days.
1980 Pres-elect Reagan appoints Jean Kirkpatrick (UN delegate) and James Watt (Interior)
1980 Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47
1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black youths on a NYC subway train
1984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks.
1985 STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
1986 Quebec Court of Appeal declares that Article 58 or Bill 101 making French the sole languageauthorized on commercial signs is unconstitutional
1986 Celius Dougherty, composer, dies at 84
1987 Canada beats Finland 4-1 to win inaugural-ever gold medal at the annual Izvestia hockey tournament
1987 Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin.
1987 Alice Terry, [Taaffe], actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies
1988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ
1988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa.
1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231000 gal on 300 mi of WA and BC coast
1988 Tucker Smith, singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story), dies
1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
1989 Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83.
1990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait.
1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen.
1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's inaugural popularly elected president
1990 Cecil Effinger, composer, dies at 76.
1991 Ernst Krenek, Austrian/US composer (Orpheus and Eurydike), dies at 91
1992 Frederick W Franz, CEO (Watch Tower), dies at 99.
1993 Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81.
1994 Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi steps down dec23.
1995 Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone With the Wind), dies in a fire at 84
1996 Brett Hull is recorded as becoming the 24th player in NHL history to score 500 goals when he notches a hat trick in the St. Louis Blues' 7-4 victory over the Los Angeles Kings
1996 Hetta Empson, artist, dies at 81.
1997 Coca-Cola went Christmas shopping on this day and came home with a rather hefty present Orangina, the "sparkling" French beverage formerly owned by Pernod Richard
1997 Dawn Steel, producer/pres (Col TriStar), dies of brain tumor at 51.
1998 A particularly vicious virus invaded systems at MCI WorldCom. Unlike other viruses, the Remote Explorer bug was capable of damaging a system even if users did not download a file or open an e-mail attachment.
1998 Microsoft was ordered to stop blocking holiday e-mail cards from Blue Mountain Arts.
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