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Tuesday, 17 February 2026
1969 World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes inaugural commercial flight 
1969 Manuel Plaza Reyes, Chilean marathoner (Oly-gold 1928), dies at 68.
1970 World's inaugural nerve transplant, in Germany
1971 Apollo 14, and its crew of three astronauts, returns to Earth after America's third lunar landing mission.
1971 inaugural British soldier killed in Northern Ireland.
1971 Probably inaugural gay theme TV episode - All in the Family.
1971 Quake in San Fernando Valley results in the deaths of 65 and leads to over $½ billion damage
1971 San Fernando, California an earthquake measuring 6.5 lasted about 60 seconds, took 65 lives, injured more than 2000, and caused property damage estimated at $505 million.
1971 Satchel Paige is recorded as becoming inaugural negro-league player elected to baseball HOF
1972 British government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike.
1973 Max Yasgur, owner Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at 53
1974 "Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41.
1974 US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill.
1974 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
1974 Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier, dies at 60.
1975 Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
1975 USS Enterprise responded to calls for disaster relief from the island nation of Mauritius which was struck on by Typhoon Cervaise.
1975 Constant Burniaux, Belgian art historian (L'amour Vivre), dies at 82.
1976 In Los Angeles conductor arranger Percy Faith dies at age 67.
1977 Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92.
1978 Ottawa orders 11 Soviet embassy officials deported for allegedly trying to infiltrate the RCMP Security Service.
1978 Ted Bundy results in the deaths of Kimberly Leach, 12, Lake City FL; later executed.
1978 The inaugural satellite of the new Navy Fleet Satellite Communications System was launched. This system satisfies the need for worldwide tactical command control and communications for the entire fleet.
1978 Kimberly Leach, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City Fla at 12
1979 21st Grammy Awards Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey.
1979 ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special
1979 Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind"
1979 Nigeria amends constitution
1979 C I J Smith, cricket all-rounder (5 Tests for England 1935-37), dies.
1980 Antoine Pompe, Belgian architect, dies at 106.
1981 Bill Haley, dynamic rock 'n roll singer of Bill Haley and the Comets, dies in Harlingen, Texas, at age 55.
1981 Bill Haley, vocalist (Rock Around Clock), dies of heart attack at 55.
1983 Belgium buys 44 F-16s.
1984 Russian leader Yuri V. Andropov dies at age 69.
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