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Saturday, 21 February 2026
1959 Joe Cook, Stage comedian, dies at 69. 

1960 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US. 

1961 13th Emmy Awards Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr and Barbara Stanwyck. 

1961 13th Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr and Barbara Stanwyck. 

1963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Project Mercury. 

1964 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 

1964 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champion. 

1965 Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam 

1965 Spaghetti-O's inaugural sold 

1966 Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" is released 

1966 National Welfare Rights Organization begins 

1966 Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. 

1966 Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home. 

1967 Philadelphia voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium 

1968 Battle for Fire Support Base CORAL in Vietnam 

1968 Earthquake results in the deaths of 47 in Japan. 

1968 Honshu, Japan a7.0 quake killed 47 people, 281 injured, and $131 million property damage was sustained 

1969 Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute. 

1969 Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam 

1969 The Who's Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey charged with assault. 

1969 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR. 

1969 Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere 

1969 Johnny Jordan, cameraman (You Only Live Twice), dies at 44 

1970 "Grover Henson Feels Forgotten" by Bill Cosby hits #70. 

1971 In this year, Bulgaria formally adopts it's constitution 

1972 Maxime Dumoulin, composer, dies at 79 

1973 In this year, AC Milan claims 13th Europe Cup II in Saloniki 

1973 Zimbian troops kill two Canadian women at Rhodesian (Zimbabwe) border; believed they were saboteurs 

1974 Helmut Schmidt is recorded as becoming West German chancellor. 

1974 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 

1975 India annexes Principality of Sikkim. 

1975 Japanese Junko Tabei became inaugural woman to reach Mount Everest's summit. 

1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title 

1975 Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK 

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