Page 7: Historical Events In July - 19
Sunday, 15 February 2026
1969 Mary Jo Kopechne, in Ted Kennedy's car, drowns at 28 

1970 Barry Wood singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61. 

1970 Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61. 

1971 B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #2259 Sofievka. 

1973 Clarence White, rocker (Byrds), killed by drunken driver at 29 

1974 David Bowie's Diamond Dog tour ends in NYC. 

1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3118 

1974 Joe Flynn actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 59 

1974 Earl Warren, gov of Calif/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 83. 

1975 Apollo and Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate 

1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands. 

1976 Gene Roth, actor (Rosie, Tormented, Nightfall), dies at 73 

1977 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2228 Soyuz-Apollo. 

1977 John R Powers, US director model bureau, dies at 80. 

1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260000 TONS of oil spill 

1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza 

1979 Patricia Harris, is recorded as becoming sect of HEW 

1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US and others boycott. 

1980 David Bowie appears in role of Elephant Man in Denver. 

1981 Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81. 

1982 David S Dodge is recorded as becoming the inaugural American hostage in Lebanon. 

1984 Carol Eberts Veazie actor, dies at 89 

1984 Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), won Democratic VP nomination 

1984 The inaugural female to captain a 747 across the Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer). 

1984 Carol Eberts Veazie, actress (Maude Endles-Norby), dies at 89. 

1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen inaugural schoolteacher to fly the space shuttle. 

1986 Caroline Kennedy weds Edwin A Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass. 

1989 General Jaruzelski appointed President of Poland. 

1989 United flight 232 crashes in Iowa 

1989 Carl-Heinz Schroth, dir/actor (Strafverteidiger), dies at 87 

1990 BASF plant in Cincinnatti explodes in flames, 1 dies 

1990 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion 

1990 Herbert Nelson actor (Guilding Light), dies at 76 of a stroke 

1990 Johnny Wayne comedian (Wayne and Shuster), dies at 72 of cancer 

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