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Wednesday, 24 June 2026
1973 Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 72. 
1974 An Italian loses a record $1920000 at roulette in Monte Carlo.
1976 World Ice Dance Championship in Gothenburg won by Liudmila Pakhomova and Alexandr Gorshkov (USSR).
1976 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by Irina Rodnina and Alexandr Zaitsev (USSR).
1976 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill (USA)
1976 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (Great Britain)
1976 "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, leight heavy weight boxing champ (1930-34), dies at 71
1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot and crippled by a sniper in Georgia
1979 Charles Wagenheim, actor (Halligan-Gunsmoke), dies at 83
1980 7th Daytime Emmy Awards presentation - Susan Lucci loses for inaugural time
1980 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it inaugural woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar).
1981 CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite gives his last newscast
1981 Soyuz 39 returns to Earth.
1981 Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News".
1981 George Geary, cricketer (14 Tests for England, 46 wickets), dies
1982 Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)
1982 Ayn Rand, author-philosopher (Atlas Shrugged), dies in NY at 77
1983 In this year, Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU claims West German parliament elections
1983 New Bedford MA woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table
1983 Thelma Pelish, actress (Pajama Game), dies at 55.
1984 Henry Wilcoxon, actor (Cleopatra, Dragnet, Jericho), dies at 78.
1985 Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his inaugural pro fight.
1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4500th performance of "King and I".
1985 Eric Sloane, US artist, dies at 80
1986 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8889 km
1986 Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies.
1987 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, results in the deaths of 100
1987 A British ferry sinks off the Belgian port of Zeebrugg, killing 189
1987 Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die.
1987 In the Colombia - Ecuador region a 7.0 earthquake killed approximately 1000 people, 4000 missing, 20000 homeless, extensive damage, landslides and ground cracks in Napo Province and in the Quito-Tulcan area, Ecuador
1987 Ecuador earthquakes in Ecuador killing 5000 people.
1988 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers.
1988 In the Gulf of Alaska a 7.7 earthquake was felt in parts of Alaska, but little damage on land however an estimated 5000 dollars damage caused to the ships Exxon North Slope, Exxon Boston and Exxon New Orleans.
1988 Konstantin Iliev, composer, dies at 63
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