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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1948 Operation 10 Plagues 

1948 [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German fieldmarshal, dies. 

1950 Connie Mack retires as manager of A's after 50 years. 

1951 USSR performs nuclear test. 

1952 "Buttrio Square" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 7 perfs. 

1953 WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting 

1953 Douwe Kalma, Fries literature/christian-socialist, dies at 57 

1954 Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) is recorded as becoming most severe to hit US 

1955 Track and Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athlete. 

1955 Track and Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete 

1955 Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, dies at 72 

1960 In Britain, the News Chronicle and Daily Mail merge, 

1960 The London Evening Star merges with the Evening News. 

1960 Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years) 

1961 Wynton Marsalis, Jazz trumpeter is born. 

1961 Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to commun attack. 

1962 Dr Watson (US) and Drs Crick and Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA. 

1962 US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon 

1962 JFK meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko. 

1963 IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics. 

1963 Claudio Carneyro, composer, dies at 68. 

1964 In this year, Marlene Hagge claims LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational 

1965 Frank Hutchens, composer, dies at 73. 

1966 "Apple Tree" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 463 performances 

1966 Bill Nestell, US actor (Dangerous Venture), dies of heart attack at 73 

1967 Soviet Venera 4 is recorded as becoming the inaugural probe to send data back from Venus. 

1967 Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released 

1967 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe. 

1968 Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas 

1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono fined for marijuana possession 

1968 Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70. 

1969 Federal govt bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners. 

1969 Soyuz 8 returns to Earth 

1972 Ken Wishart, cricketer (WI opening batsman in one Test 1935), dies. 

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