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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1972 Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the U.S., dies in Kansas City, Missouri 
1972 Harry Truman, 33rd US Pres (1945-53), dies in KC Mo at 88.
1973 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours.
1973 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth.
1973 Harold B Lee, US head of Mormon Church, dies at 74.
1974 Television and radio comedian Jack Benny dies in Los Angeles at age 80
1974 Jack Benny, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 80
1975 Russia begins the world's inaugural supersonic air transport service with its Tupolev-144 run from Moscow to Alma-Ata
1976 In St. John's Newfoundland a nursing home fire results in the deaths of 21 elderly residents.
1976 Philip A Heart, (Sen-D-Mich), dies at 64
1977 Howard Hawks, director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!), dies at 81.
1978 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
1985 Ford introduced the Taurus line of auto's,, the product of years of engineering.
1985 Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist), murdered at 53.
1986 M Montreal Canadien Doug Jarvis, age 31, sets a National Hockey League record as he skates in his 916th consecutive game.
1986 TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run.
1986 Elsa Lanchester, actress (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 84
1988 John Loder, actor (Sabotage, Java Head), dies at 90
1989 A provisional government takes control of Romania, following the secret trial and execution of President Nicolae Ceausescu.
1989 Lennox Berkeley, composer, dies at 86
1990 Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
1990 Nancy Cruznan, accident victim/right-to-die case, dies at 33.
1991 Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220000 in auction (the gun used to kill Harvey Oswald).
1991 Militant Sikhs kill 55 and wound 70 in India.
1991 Toronto Ontario Northwest Airlines buys 20 Dash 8 Series 100 aircraft from de Haviland for $190 million; division of Boeing Canada
1991 Dehl Berti, actor (John Taylor-Guns of Paradise), dies at 70.
1992 Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch poet (Antipodes), dies at 74.
1993 Jeff Morrow, actor (Robe, Harbor Lights, Blood Legacy), dies at 80.
1994 French commandos storm a hijacked Air France jet on the ground in Marseille, freeing 170 hostages and killing the Algerian hijackers
1994 Asta ER Elstak, Suriname/Neth welfare worker, dies at 74
1996 Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey is are discovered beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's Boulder, Colorado, home. The killing remains unsolved.
1997 John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter, dies at 81.
1999 R and B artist Curtis Mayfield dies in an Atlanta hospital at age 57. Mayfield, famous for the Superfly soundtrack, had been paralyzed since 1990 during an onstage accident.
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in Indian Ocean killing 227898 people.
