Page 8: Historical Events In February - 28
Tuesday, 23 June 2026
1959 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins USA 

1959 The inaugural polar orbiting satellite, Discoverer 1, launched 

1959 Maxwell Anderson, US dramatist (Key Largo, Bath Seed), dies at 70. 

1960 8th winter Olympics games close at Squaw Valley CA 

1960 In this year, US claims Olympics hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4. 

1960 F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74. 

1961 JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor. 

1961 Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer/music publisher, dies at 64 

1962 Rae Dawn Chong wasborn at Edmonton Alberta, daughter of actor Tommy Chong. Chong, she appeared in the film Quest for Fire. 

1962 Rae Dawn Chong, Actress is born 

1962 Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, comedian (Olsen and Johnson), dies at 70. 

1963 Theodore Newton, actor (Voltaire, Ace of Aces), dies at 58 

1964 The opening of Toronto International Airport terminal building, much later this event confirms the fact that Toronto is the center of the universe. 

1964 Dirk HW Filarski, painter/lithographer (Bergen School), dies at 78. 

1965 Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74. 

1966 Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes 

1966 Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet 

1968 Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air. 

1968 Doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41. 

1969 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Towler and Ford of Great Britain 

1969 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina and Ulanov of USSR 

1969 Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert GDR. 

1969 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Tim Wood USA 

1970 Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge. 

1971 53rd PGA Championship Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA National to win his 2nd golf grand slam. 

1971 Tristan Louis, Internet entrepreneur (me) is born. 

1971 Women refused the right to vote in Lichtenstein elections. 

1972 George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident 

1972 President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China 

1972 President Richard Nixon wraps up his historic trip to China. 

1972 Victor Barna, table tennis champ, dies 

1973 Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders 

1973 Cecil Kellaway, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 78. 

1974 Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms. 

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