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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1949 The Cars vocalist Ric Ocasek born this day. 
1949 Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in NYC.
1950 22nd Academy Awards "All King's Men", Broderick Crawford and Olivia de Havilland win
1950 Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government
1950 UN World Meteorological Organization established
1950 "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 perfs
1950 Douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies
1950 22nd Academy Awards: "All King's Men", Broderick Crawford and Olivia de Havilland win.
1951 Wages in France increase 11%.
1952 Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks. Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds
1952 Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61
1953 Raoul Dufy, painter, Forcalquier, France.
1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)
1956 Sudan is recorded as becoming independent.
1957 US army sells last homing pigeons
1957 L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77
1958 inaugural launching of simulated Polaris missile from submerged tactical launcher facility off CA.
1958 Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76.
1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit.
1960 Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78
1961 A C Russell, cricketer (10 Tests for England 910 runs), dies.
1962 French government uses fighter planes and tanks in attempt to end insurrection by European rightists in Algeria.
1962 JFK visits San Francisco.
1962 Josephus RH van Schaik, lawyer/vice-premier of Neth, dies at 80
1963 Davey Moore, dies seconds after KOed in feather-weight championship.
1964 Two Marine helicopter crews of VMO-1 rescued 11 sick, injured and wounded members of a road engineering party that had survived attacks by hostile Indians in the dense jungle of the Amazon basin near Iquitos, Peru.
1964 Peter Lorre, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 59.
1965 LCDR John W. Young, USN, Pilot of Gemini 3 completed 3 orbits in 4 hours., 53 minutes at an altitude of 224 km. Recovery was by helicopters from USS Intrepid (CVS-11)
1965 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed.
1965 Mae Murray, actress (Bachelor Apartment), dies of heart ailment at 75.
1966 inaugural official meeting after 400 years of Catholic and Anglican Church
1966 Johannes W Elsensohn, Dutch actor/writer (Arie), dies at 82.
1967 Duncan Macrae, actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped), dies at 61.
1968 Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49
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