Page 6: Historical Events In September - 09
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1950 "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 293 perfs 

1951 1st broadcast of "Love of Life" on CBS-TV. 

1951 Cecil Gray, composer, dies at 56. 

1952 Joseph Allen Sr, dies. 

1953 KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting. 

1954 Alfred Gradstein, composer, dies at 49. 

1956 Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show, drawing a TV audience estimated at over 50 million. 

1957 Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited 

1957 Ettore Pozzoli, composer, dies at 84. 

1958 Charles Macartney, cricket (35 Tests 1907-26, 2131 runs 45 wkts), dies. 

1959 Max d' Ollone, composer, dies at 84 

1960 Hugh Grant, Britsh actor is born 

1960 Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer, dies at 75. 

1962 Pat Rooney, vaudevillian (Night club), dies at 82. 

1963 Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, results in the deaths of 3-4000 (Italy) 

1963 Ernst Kantorowicz, German/US historian, dies at 68. 

1964 Charles O'Neill, composer, dies at 82 

1965 Tibet is made an autonomous region of China 

1965 Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer, dies at 90. 

1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition. 

1966 Antonio Massana, composer, dies at 76 

1967 The inaugural successful test flight of a Saturn V. 

1967 Helen Flint, actress (Sea Devils), dies after being hit by a car at 69. 

1968 The fir1st US Open, Arthur Ashe claims 

1969 Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, results in the deaths of 82 

1969 Cecil Dixon, cricketer (S Afr 1913-14, dismissed Hobbs twice), dies 

1971 1000 convicts seize Attica, NY prison. 

1971 Detroit Red Wings hockey star Gordie Howe retires. 

1971 Forty-three people are killed when prisoners seize control of New York's Attica prison 

1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on the Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV) 

1971 In this year, John Lennon releases the "Imagine" album. 

1971 Billy Gilbert, US actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday), dies at 76. 

1973 Samuel N Behrman, US stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80. 

1974 Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer, dies at 55 

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