Page 6: Historical Events In November - 06
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1941 Einsatz group results in the deaths of 15000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine 

1941 Doug Sahm, San Antonio Texas, country singer (Texas Tornadoes-Dinero) 

1942 Nazis execute 12000 Minsk ghetto Jews. 

1943 Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula. 

1943 Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964. 

1944 Recognition of the future importance of turbojet and turboprop powerplants led the Bureau of Aeronautics to request the Naval Air Material Center to study requirements for a laboratory to develop and test gas-turbine powerplants. 

1944 Bill Henderson, Vancouver BC, rock vocalist/guitarist (Chilliwack). 

1944 Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest 

1945 HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators 

1946 Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer, dies at 76. 

1947 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66. 

1949 Greeks civil war ends. 

1950 Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pitts Pirates. 

1951 Soviet aircraft shoot at Neptune Patrol bomber (VP-6) on weather reconnaissance mission near Siberia. U.S. aircraft fails to return 

1952 inaugural hydrogen bomb exploded (by US at Eniwetok Atoll). 

1952 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland," premieres 

1953 French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy. 

1953 John Parsons Beach, composer, dies at 76. 

1955 11th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Thunderbird Ranch and CC Calif 

1955 Charley Toorop, [Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop], Dutch painter, dies at 64 

1956 Holland and Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary 

1956 President Eisenhower (D) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (R) 

1957 Felix Gaillard is recorded as becoming premier of France 

1957 "Rumple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 45 performances. 

1958 AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959 

1958 Francis George Scott, composer, dies at 78 

1960 The aircraft carrier Antietam left British Honduras for Pensacola after 4 days of relief operations following hurricane Hattie 

1960 The last steam locomotive to operate officially on Canadian Pacific pulls a special train to St. Lin from Montreal. Locomotive is class A-l-e no. 29, 4-4-0 built in 1887 

1961 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith. 

1961 US govt issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith. 

1962 Edward M Kennedy inaugural elected (Sen-D-MA). 

1962 BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote. 

1963 Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier (Indonesia), dies at 52 

1965 Clarence Williams, composer, dies at 67 

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