Page 6: Historical Events In November - 01
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1941 Chetniks attacks Tito's partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia. 

1941 Camille Melloy, [the Paepe], Belgian priest/poet (Requiem), dies at 50. 

1942 10th day of battle at El Alamein. 

1942 Hugo Distler, composer, dies at 34. 

1943 Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area 

1943 Dim-out ban lifted in SF Bay area. 

1944 Final mass gassing at Auschwitz, 73 women are murdered. The remainder of the prisoners, approximately 2300, are deported to Ravensbruck and Bergen-Belsen to meet the growing slave labor demand 

1945 Australia ratifies Charter of United Nations. 

1945 inaugural issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson 

1946 West German state of Niedersachsen formed. 

1947 UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ and UK 

1947 Man O' War, racehorse, dies 

1949 Leslie Gay, cricket wicket-keeper/goalkeeper (England in 1890's), dies 

1950 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at the Blair House. 

1950 Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate Pres Truman, shot dead 

1951 Award of Republic of South Korea Presidential Citation to 77 Squadron, RAAF. 

1951 The inaugural atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM 

1952 The inaugural hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. 

1954 Algeria begins rebellion against French rule. 

1954 India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements 

1955 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 results in the deaths of 44 above Longmont Colorado 

1955 W H van Eemlandt, [Haasse], author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel), dies 

1956 Delhi is recorded as becoming a territory of the Indian union 

1956 Indian state of Madhya Pradesh formed 

1956 Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact. 

1956 Lajos Asztalos, International Chess Master (1950), dies at 67 

1959 Goalie Jacques Plant wears a hockey mask fo rthe inaugural time in a game. 

1959 Gershon Agron, mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 66. 

1960 Benelux treaty comes into force. 

1961 Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author, dies at 97 

1962 inaugural ever spacecraft to Mars, Mars 1, launched 

1962 Greece enters the European Common Market 

1962 USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars. 

1962 Winter Haynes Watts, composer, dies at 78. 

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