Page 5: Historical Events In September - 05
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1934 Carol Lawrence, Illinois, dancer/actress (West Side Story) 

1935 Helen Gifford, composer 

1936 Red Sox turn a triple-play on Yankees. 

1936 Alcee Hastings, (Rep-D-Florida). 

1937 Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls. 

1939 The US proclaims its neutrality in WWII a position that would last until 12/7/1941 

1939 34th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Haverford (3-2). 

1939 Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, Dutch actor/director (Two Boys), dies at 67 

1940 All 355 Jewish-owned businesses in Luxembourg become "Aryan" property 

1942 Raquel Welch, American film actress is born 

1942 Battle at Alam Halfa ends. 

1943 57th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (63 57 63) 

1944 Allies liberate Brussels. 

1944 "Mad Tuesday" 65000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany. 

1944 Willem M Groenewegen, resistance fighter, executed 

1946 Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game. 

1946 "Yours Is My Heart" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 36 performances. 

1948 In France, Robert Schuman is recorded as becoming President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II. 

1949 63rd US Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats Doris Hart (64 61) 

1950 64th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont beats D Hart (63 63). 

1951 65th US Womens Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry (63 16 64) 

1952 General Carlos Ibáñez elected president of Chile 

1953 The inaugural privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh NC. 

1953 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh NC. 

1954 Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die 

1955 Fred Kaps is recorded as becoming world champion magician 

1956 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM. 

1958 "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in the US. 

1958 The inaugural color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC. 

1960 Cassius Clay captures the olympic light heavyweight gold medal 

1961 Ernest Bock, cricketer (Test for S Africa, 1935), dies. 

1968 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan. 

1968 Juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73. 

1969 Henk Bijvanck, composer, dies at 59 

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