Page 7: Historical Events In November - 12
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1977 New Orleans elects inaugural black mayor, Ernest (Dutch) Morial. 

1978 Howard Swanson, composer, dies at 71 

1979 US halts Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets 

1979 Dimitri Tiompkin, composer, dies at 85 

1980 NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana 

1980 US space probe Voyager I approaches 77000-mi (124000 km) of Saturn 

1980 Alexander "Alex" Nicholas Voormolen, Dutch composer, dies at 85 

1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2). 

1981 inaugural balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V) 

1981 US space shuttle Columbia, inaugural space vehicle to make a second trip, launched. 

1982 Yuri Andropov is recorded as becoming soviet leader, succeeding Mr Brezhnev. 

1982 Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader, but not for long 

1983 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas 

1984 In this year, Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together". 

1984 Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite inaugural space salvage 

1985 STS 61-B vehicle moves to the launch pad. 

1985 The province of Ontario looses its Standard and Poors triple A credit rating 

1987 Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine 

1987 Roger Lewis, aviation exec (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75 

1989 Brazil holds inaugural free presidential election in 29 years 

1990 Dave Willock, actor (Queen of Outer Space), dies at 81 

1991 "Full House" 100th episode-The twins are born 

1991 Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack. 

1992 Charles "Honi" Coles, tap dancer, dies of cancer at 81 

1993 Anna Stein, actress (Wedding Night), dies of heart attack at 88 

1994 Charles "Honi" Coles, dancer (1983 Tony award), dies at 81 

1995 Canadian Chris Hadfield flys on the space shuttle as mission specialist 

1995 Curley Fox, fiddler, dies at 85. 

1996 Don Kenyon, cricketer, dies at 72. 

1997 William Matthews, poet, dies at 55. 

2005 United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan makes his inaugural visit to Iraq since Gulf War II began and urges Iraqis to embrace a process aiming to reconcile all the country's ethnic and religious groups 

2006 Gerald Ford surpasses Ronald Reagan as the longest lived President of the United States 

2006 The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia. 

2011 Silvio Berlusconi steps down as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis 

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