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Monday, 24 August 2026
1979 Jerry Damon, comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 51. 
1980 North of Livermore Valley, California s 5.9, earthquake injured 44 people and caused and estimated $11.5 million in property damage (of which, $10 million damage occurred at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory at Livermore.
1981 Kim Hughes scores 213 vs India at Adelaide.
1983 Hulk Hogan pins the Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title
1983 Oaxaca, Mexico a 7.0 earthquake occured. Damage in the Juchitan area and slight damage in the Mexico City area. Felt strongly in southeastern Mexico.
1983 George Cukor, director, dies of stroke and heart attack at 83.
1984 ABC network agrees to pay $386 million for US TV rights to the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics; a record sum to that date; CTV will handle the Canadian feed.
1984 Apple Computer Inc unveils its Macintosh personal computer
1984 Apple unveils its Macintosh personal computer, the inaugural with a graphical interface
1985 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched
1985 Penny Harrington is sworn in as the inaugural woman police chief of a major American city (Portland, OR).
1985 The space shuttle 'Discovery' is launched on its inaugural military mission
1986 43rd Golden Globes Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win
1986 South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas is recorded as becoming interim-president
1986 The NASA space probe Voyager Two passes within 50679 miles of Uranus.
1986 Voyager 2 makes inaugural fly-by of Uranus (81593 km), finds new moons
1986 Gordon MacRae, singer (Oklahoma, Carousel), dies at 64.
1987 61st Australian Women's Tennis H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76).
1988 Ben Johnson named the Associated Press (AP) male athlete of the year, the inaugural Canadian track athlete so honoured.
1988 inaugural WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan claims.
1988 Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C), dies at 91.
1989 Serial killer Ted Bundy is put to death in Florida's electric chair.
1989 The inaugural reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
1989 Ted Bundy, serial killer of up to 100 women, executed in Florida at 42
1990 Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon.
1990 Madge Bellamy, actress (White Zombie), dies at 87
1991 George Gobel, comedian, dies of a heart attack at 71.
1992 Charles Moulin, French actor (French Tarzan), dies
1993 14th annual star-athon $24000000.
1993 Former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall dies in Bethesda, Maryland, at age 84
1993 Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed.
1993 Soyuz TM-16 launches.
1993 Thurgood Marshall, 1st black supreme court justice (1967-91), dies 84
1994 Dow Jones closes above 3900 for inaugural time (3914.48).
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