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Sunday, 22 February 2026
1960 Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year. 
1962 Gloria Gordon, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 81.
1963 Horatio Alger Society founded
1963 JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House
1964 Beatles release "I Feel Fine" and "She's a Woman".
1965 Franc Debenham, Australian geographer/geologer, dies at 81
1967 Freddie Martin, cricket WI batsman, (9 Tests 486 runs 1 century), dies
1969 The inaugural space-to-ground news conference was telecast this day. Reporters in Houston submitted written questions to a lieutenant at the Houston NASA base, who read them to astronauts aboard Apollo 12
1970 Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird discloses the November 21U.S. raid on the North Vietnamese prison camp at Son Tay. The raid was conducted almost flawlessly, but no prisoners of war were are discovered in the camp. They had been moved earlier to other locations
1970 Yusuf Bin Ishak, president of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60.
1971 China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council
1971 Lisle Nagel, Australian cricket opening bowler (1932), dies
1972 Marie Wilson, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 56
1973 Claire Dodd, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy), dies after illness at 64.
1974 Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54.
1976 Andre Malraux, [Berger], author (Conquerors)/min of Culture, dies.
1977 European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral.
1979 Merle Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68.
1980 4800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy.
1980 Herby Wade, cricketer (South African capt 10 Tests 1935-36), dies
1982 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB and mated for STS-6
1982 "Reverend" Grady Nutt, actor (Hee Haw), dies at 47
1985 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptair jet in Malta
1985 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
1987 The Chicago Board of Trade took its own precautionary steps, implementing a daily price ceiling on the Major Market Index future, as well as the Institutional Index future.
1988 South Africa Botha reprieves Sharpeville Six
1988 Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal.
1988 South Africa: Botha reprieves Sharpeville Six.
1989 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines.
1990 Bo Diaz, catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish at 37
1991 Evander Hollyfield retains HW boxing title, KOs Bert Cooper in 7
1991 Ken Uehara, actor (Honolulu-Tokyo), dies of heart failure at 82.
1992 Ray Acuff, country singer (Wahbash Cannonball), dies
1993 Gerarda "Meik" Rueter, sculptor, dies at 89
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