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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1930 The inaugural radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC. 
1930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
1931 USSR and Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty
1932 Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
1933 Sissieretta Joyner Jones, "Black Patti", US singer, dies at about 64
1936 Joe DiMaggio is recorded as becoming 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4.
1936 Nandor Zsolt, composer, dies at 49.
1938 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1938 "Digger" Robertson, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies.
1939 Pan Am's inaugural US to England flight.
1939 Pan Am's 1st US to England flight.
1940 France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II.
1941 Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
1942 Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered
1943 Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg
1944 Rio Gebhardt, composer, dies at 36.
1945 Schermerhorn govt forms.
1946 29.77 cm (11.72") of rainfall, Mellen, Wisc. (state 24-hr record)
1947 Looking skyward this night, Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.
1948 Berlin, Germany was completely isolated from the outside world. Joseph Stalin, premier of Soviet Russia, who had already cut rail and road access to the city three months earlier, now blocked all ground and water access and cut electricity to the Western sector. Within a few days, the great Berlin Airlift began. U.S. planes dropped up to 13000 tons of goods per day for the next 10 months
1948 Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey
1949 "Hopalong Cassidy" is recorded as becoming inaugural network western (NBC).
1949 Cargo airlines inaugural licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
1950 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1821 Aconcagua.
1952 Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer, dies at 84
1959 Lou Bandy, Dutch revue-artist (Life Ain't Bad), commits suicide at 69
1961 Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"
1962 Lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Model Wife, Florian), dies at 83.
1963 The inaugural demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London.
1963 Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain.
1966 Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
1968 Canadian Sandra Post is recorded as becoming inaugural non-US and 1st rookie LPGA winner
1968 Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion
1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title
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