Page 7: Historical Events In September - 01
Friday, 20 February 2026
1945 Jacobus W G Balfoort, Dutch actor (Heimwee, Head On), dies at 57 

1948 Communist's form the North China People's Republic 

1948 UN's World Health Organization forms 

1949 The inaugural network detective series-Private Eyes-premiers. 

1950 West Berlin granted a constitution 

1951 US, Australia and New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty. 

1951 Wolfgang Schulze, [Wols], German drawer/painter, dies at 38. 

1955 Philip Loeb, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 61. 

1956 Indian state of Tripura is recorded as becoming a territory 

1957 Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400. 

1957 Gloria Estefan, Cuban born Pop singer is born. 

1957 Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black), dies at 83 

1961 USSR tests nuclear bombs in central Asia. 

1961 Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (Dulles Airport), dies at 51. 

1962 10000 die in an earthquake in western Iran. 

1962 UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion. 

1963 Guy Burgess, British spy for the USSR 

1964 George Georgescu, composer, dies at 76. 

1967 Ilja Ehrenburg, writer, dies at 76 

1968 Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlandsd) begins transmitting. 

1968 Granville English, composer, dies at 69. 

1969 Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris 

1969 Drew Pearson, newscaster (Drew Pearson), dies at 71. 

1970 Francois Mauriac, writer, dies 

1971 Qatar declares independence from Britain 

1972 Bobby Fischer of the USA defeats Boris Spassky of the USSR at the international chess championship in Reykjavik, Iceland. 

1972 The O'Jays receive the inaugural of their eventual six gold records, this one for the hit Back Stabbers 

1972 May Aufderheide, composer, dies at 84 

1973 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark) 

1973 George Foreman KOs Jose Roman in the 1st to retain heavyweight title. 

1974 The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird fighter establishes a new record by flying the Atlantic in under 2 hours. 

1975 Gunsmoke goes off the air. 

1975 NBC-TV broadcasts its last Monday Night Baseball game as the Montreal Expos defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-5. 

1975 NYC transit fare rises from 35. to 50 

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