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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1976 George Foreman KOs Ron Lyle in 5th round of a real slugfest 
1977 5 lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid
1978 A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite disintegrates as it falls into the atmosphere, spreading radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada.
1978 A Russian satellite accidently crashes in Canada's Northwest Territory
1978 Nuclear-powered USSR satellite Cosmos 954 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates over the Northwest Territories, scattering radioactive debris over the barrens east of Great Slave Lake; Canadian Armed Forces launches operation to recover debris; USSR later pays Canada $3 million under a UN treaty covering costs of cleanup.
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
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 Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
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.
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