Page 7: Historical Events In July - 09
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1967 Douglas MacLean, silent film comedian turned producer, dies at 77. 

1968 39.83 cm (15.68") of rainfall, Columbus, Miss (state 24-hour record) 

1968 Allyn Edwards host (One Minute Please, Mr Citizen), dies at 53. 

1968 John Indrisano actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 62 

1968 Allyn Edwards, host (One Minute Please, Mr Citizen), dies at 53 

1969 Gertrude Dixon, compiler of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, dies 

1971 In Chile a 7.5 quaked killed 84 people, 447 injured, and 40000 made homeless by this earthquake. The earthquake was centered 75 miles northwest of Santiago. 

1972 The inaugural tour of Paul McCartney and Wings (France) 

1972 Kwame Nkrumah, re-buried in Nkroful Ghana 

1973 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel 

1974 Sonia Gaskell, Russian/Neth choreographer (Diaghilev), dies at 70. 

1975 In Western Minnesota a 5.0 earthquake was the largest historical quake in Minnesota. 

1976 Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe. 

1977 Dr Loren Eiseley prof of Anthropology (Animal Secrets), dies at 69. 

1977 Loren C Eiseley, US anthropologist/writer (Animal Secrets), dies at 69. 

1978 American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago. 

1978 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2530 Shipka 

1978 Nearly 100000 demonstrators march on Wash DC for ERA. 

1978 Abdul Razak al-Naif, premier of Iraq, murdered 

1979 Dr Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab. 

1979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter 

1979 Betty Evans Grayson, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1959), dies at 53. 

1980 7 die in a stampede to see the pope in Brazil 

1980 Walt Disney's "The Fox and The Hound" released 

1981 The Jacksons begin a 36-city tour. 

1981 Allen Ludden, TV show host (Password), dies at 61. 

1982 In this year, Margaret Thatcher starts her 2nd term as British prime minster 

1982 Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, La, killing 153 

1984 Randall Thompson, US composer (Trip to Nahant), dies at 85 

1985 Rafael Campos actor (Ramon-Rhoda, Sancho-V), dies of cancer at 49. 

1985 Rafael Campos, actor (Ramon-Rhoda, Sancho-V), dies of cancer at 49 

1986 Karl-Heinz Beckurts, West german Siemens manager, murdered 

1988 "Facts of Life," Lisa Whelchel weds Steve Cauble. 

1988 Barbara Woodhouse dog trainer, dies at 78 of a stroke 

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