Page 8: Historical Events In June - 15
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1980 Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game. 

1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat 

1982 Art[hur E] Pepper, US, alto saxophonist, dies at 56 

1983 Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion 

1984 Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran 

1984 Meredith Willson, composer (Meredith Willson Show), dies at 82. 

1985 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus 

1985 Len Hopwood, cricketer (took 0-155 in two Tests Eng v Aust 1934), dies. 

1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity. 

1986 K K Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), killed by motor-scooter. 

1987 J A K Cochrane, cricketer (Test for S Afr 1931), dies 

1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-213 

1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth. 

1989 Ray McAnally, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State), dies in Dublin at 63 

1990 "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty premiers 

1991 Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo errupts. 

1992 Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC). 

1992 Eddie Lopat, pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 73 

1993 John Connally, the former Texas governor wounded when President John F. Kennedy was killed, dies at age 76 

1993 John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), dies at 76. 

1994 David Lawson, executed in NC (wanted execution shown on Donahue). 

2007 Bob Barker airs his last episode of The Price is Right 

2012 Apple I computer sells for a record $374500. 

2014 Juan Manuel Santos is reelected President of Columbia 

2017 Scotland Yard launches criminal inquiry and British Prime Minister Theresa May announces a public inquiry a day after the Grenfell Tower fire 

2017 New record set for price of a parking lot in Hong Kong - $664000. 

2017 Rebel Wilson win defamation case against Bauer Media at The Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne 

2018 World Cup: Portugal 3. Spain 3 - Cristiano Renaldo scores hat-trick - 4th player to score in 4 different WC's - 1st to score in 8 consecutive major tournaments. 

2018 Physicist Stephen Hawking 's ashes are interred in Westminster Abbey, London, between the remains of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. 

2018 Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes charged with fraud over company's blood tests. 

2018 Glasgow School of Art, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh burns down, four years after a previous fire. 

2019 Baseball jersey belonging to Babe Ruth is recorded as becoming most expensive sports memorabilia when it sells for $5.64 million at an auction in New York. 

2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: Hong Kong announces it will indefinitely suspend the controversial extradition bill, but protests continue, this time calling for the total withdrawal of the bill and the resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam. 

2020 In this year, Philippines journalist and 'Time Person of the Year' Maria Ressa are discovered guilty of cyber libel in Manila amid claims charges politically motivated 

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