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Saturday, 21 February 2026
Dec 01 Frank Smailes, cricketer (England pace bowler Test v India 1946), dies 
Dec 01 Independent People's Republic of South Yemen is recorded as becoming the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
Dec 02 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Director William Ruckelshaus).
Dec 02 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Director: William Ruckelshaus).
Dec 05 A North Vietnamese newspaper declares that the country will not be intimidated by U.S. bombing threats
Dec 06 Thomas S Power, USAF-gen (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945), dies at 65.
Dec 07 Rube Goldberg, US cartoonist (Mike and Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87
Dec 07 Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma.
Dec 07 The Canadian Royal Commission on the Status of Women released its report calling for legal reforms
Dec 08 Christopher K Ingold, English chemist, dies at 77.
Dec 09 Artem Mikoyan, Russian aircraft designer (MIG), dies at 65.
Dec 12 Louis Zimmer, Flem clock maker (Jubelklok, Wonder Clock), dies at 82.
Dec 12 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
Dec 13 Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut v England at the WACA
Dec 15 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261.
Dec 15 Soviet Venera 7 is inaugural spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
Dec 16 The inaugural successful landing on Venus (USSR)
Dec 17 The Beach Boys played to royalty at Royal Albert Hall in London. Princess Margaret was in attendance and shook the royal jewelry to such classics as Good Vibrations, I Get Around and Help Me, Rhonda.
Dec 18 "Me Nobody Knows" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 587 perfs
Dec 21 WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
Dec 22 SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka, sentenced to life in prison.
Dec 23 Charlie Ruggles, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 84.
Dec 24 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane
Dec 24 9 Jews are convicted in Lenningrad of hijacking a plane.
Dec 24 Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released.
Dec 27 "Hello, Dolly!" closes at St James Theater NYC after 2844 performances.
Dec 27 "Hello, Dolly!" closes on Broadway after a record 2844 performances
Dec 28 L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65.
Dec 28 Paul Rose, his brother Jacques Rose, and Francis Simard captured at 4;30 am in tunnel under farmhouse near Montreal; suspected FLQ terrorists, kidnappers and murderers of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte
Dec 29 John de Mol, Dutch accordionist, dies at 58.
Dec 30 Sonny Liston, World heavyweight boxing champion (1962-64), are discovered dead at 38.
Dec 31 Congress authorizes the Eisenhower dollar coin
Dec 31 Cyril M Scott, English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at 91
Dec 31 Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to dissolve the Beatles
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