Page 6: Historical Events In June - 26
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed) 

1958 Gaston Eyskens is recorded as becoming premier of Belgium 

1958 Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93. 

1959 Ingemar Johansson of Sweden defeats Floyd Patterson as boxing champ 

1959 Queen Elizabeth and Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway. 

1959 Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavywgt boxing title. 

1959 Audley Miller, cricketer (Test for England 1896), dies 

1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain. 

1960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day). 

1960 John Brenden Kelly, rower (Olympic-gold-1920, 24), dies at 70. 

1961 Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58. 

1962 Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill 

1963 Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner). 

1963 Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian govt 

1963 Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies 

1964 Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album 

1965 Johan C T Kikkert, painter/etcher/critic, dies at 82. 

1967 Errol Hunte, cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests v England 1930), dies 

1968 Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US 

1971 Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer, dies at 91 

1972 David Lichine, [Lichtenstein], Russian/US choreographer, dies at 61 

1973 Arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59 

1974 Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton) 

1975 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency 

1975 Indira Gandhi convicted of election fraud 

1975 Supreme Court of Canada upholds PEI law banning non-residents from owning more than 4 hectares of land.(a small island?) 

1977 42 die in fire inmate leads to at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn. 

1977 Lou Reizner, rock vocalist/producer (Rod Stewart, Tommy), dies at 43 

1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France 

1978 inaugural dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched. 

1978 Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed 

1979 Charles Clore, financier, dies. 

1981 Peter Kreuder, German composer, dies 

1982 A Gilmore and P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3521 

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