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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1978 Nancy Spungen, killed by boyfriend Six Vicious in NYC 
1980 Cosmonauts Popov and Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days.
1980 Russian cosmonauts return to earth, after spending a record 185 days in space.
1981 LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds).
1981 Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum.
1982 After 437 years, the remains of Henry VIII ship the 'Mary Rose' are raised from the seabed
1982 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England
1983 Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
1984 Kathryn D. Sullivan of the US is the inaugural female astronaut to walk in spaceoct12.
1984 NASA launches space vehicle S-208
1984 VP candidate debate-Geraldine Ferraro (D) and George Bush (R)
1984 Khanderao M Rangnekar, cricketer (33 runs at 5 50 for India), dies.
1985 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1985 Pres Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands.
1985 Tex Williams, country-western singer, dies at 68 of cancer.
1986 Reagan and Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1986 Norm Cash, 1st baseman (Detroit Tigers), dies at 51
1987 200000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1988 Bonita Granville, actress (Lone Ranger, Hitler's Children), dies at 55.
1989 Paul Shenar, actor (Deadly Force, Dream Lover), dies at 53.
1990 Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum.
1990 In this year, Octavio Paz claims Nobel Prize for literature.
1990 Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel
1990 Douglas Edwards, WW II correspondent, dies of cancer at 73
1991 Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrassed her.
1992 Theo Wolvencamp, painter (Cobra), dies
1994 Maja Bulgakova, Ukranian actress (Krylja), dies in auto-accident at 62
1996 Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer, dies at 80
2006 New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle is killed, along with his flight instructor, when his plane crashes into a building in New York City's Upper East Side
2012 A further 83 people are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army.
2013 10 people are killed and a hospital fire in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
2017 TripAdvisor customer poll names The Black Swan in Oldstead, North Yorkshire, world's best restaurant.
2018 World's new longest flight flies from Singapore to Newark Airport, New Jersey takes 17 hours 52 mins.
2018 Russian Soyuz spacecraft makes emergency landing when rocket fails two minutes after liftoff, with American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut aboard
