Page 7: Historical Events In June - 30
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1966 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour. 

1967 Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named inaugural black astronaut 

1968 Gaullists win victory in the French National Assembly elections. 

1968 John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73. 

1969 Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco. 

1969 Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer, dies at 76 

1970 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City 

1970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2139 Makharadze 

1971 Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 43. 

1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse 

1973 Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died 

1974 Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub. 24 die (Port Chester NY). 

1974 Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated in church. 

1975 Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado 

1975 Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman 

1976 A Naval Aviator tradition came to an end when brown shoes were stricken from the officers' and chiefs' uniforms. The tradition initially distinguished the Brown Shoe Navy of the aviators from the black shoes of the surface officers 

1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52". 

1977 Marvel Comics publish the "Kiss book" tributing the rock group Kiss. 

1977 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC). 

1979 Johnny Rotten and Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury. 

1979 Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72 

1980 Virginia Brown Faire, actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress), dies. 

1981 China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Tse-tung's policy 

1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification. 

1982 Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale 

1983 Bo Gentry, songwriter/producer, dies. 

1984 Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79 

1985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut 

1985 James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies 

1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4). 

1987 Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in the high jump. 

1987 Federico Mompou, composer, dies at 94. 

1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason 

1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to the UK 

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