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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1974 Lynda Ann Healy, 1st Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle. 
1975 "Hoppy, Gene and Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65.
1975 "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances
1975 Otis Francis Tabler is inaugural open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
1975 Richard Wattis, actor (Dick and Duchess, Liberace), dies at 62.
1976 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV
1976 Sonny and Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
1976 Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66
1977 In this year, Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives
1977 Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 72
1978 Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
1978 Harriet Tubman is inaugural black woman honored on a US postage stamp.
1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile.
1979 Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst leaves federal prison when her sentence for bank robbery is commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR.
1979 Mort Marshall, actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at 60.
1980 Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System
1980 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run.
1980 Jack Bailey, TV host (Queen for a Day), dies at 72
1981 Australian cricket captain Greg Chappell leads to furore when he orders his brother Trevor to bowl underarm to a New Zealand batsman.
1981 Duke Ellington-musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in New York NY
1981 Dutch Antilles census is 231932
1981 French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq.
1981 Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG
1981 Donald W Douglas, US aviation pionieer/builder, dies at 88.
1982 Amoco Canada and Chevron Standard Ltd. withdraw from $13.5 billion Alsands oil consortium in Alberta.
1982 Late Night With David Letterman makes its debut on NBC-TV.
1982 Senegal and Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
1983 New channels inaugural available on cable as pay TV launched in Canada; inaugural Choice, Superchannel and C-Channel allyou got to do is PAY
1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 Tullio Campagnolo, Italian bicycle manufacturer, dies.
1984 China and Netherlands regain diplomatic relations
1984 Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203).
1985 -61ºF (-52ºC), Maybell CO (state record).
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