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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Nov 14 Dow Jones closes above 1000 for inaugural time (1003.16) 
Nov 14 Martin Dies, (Rep)/1st chairman of House Un-American, dies.
Nov 16 Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer, dies at 87.
Nov 18 Danny Whitten, rocker, dies of a drug overdose
Nov 19 "Ambassador" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 9 performances.
Nov 22 Chuck Thacker, a computer scientist at Xerox PARC, started designing the Alto computer, designed to improve the quality of machine-human interactions.
Nov 22 The United States loses its inaugural B-52 of the war. The eight-engine bomber was brought down by a North Vietnamese surface-to-air missile near Vinh on the day when B-52s flew their heaviest raids of the war over North Vietnam
Nov 23 Marie Wilson, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 56.
Nov 24 Hall Overton, US composer (Enchanted Pear Tree), dies at 52
Nov 25 Hans H B Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic), dies at 79
Nov 27 Yanks trade Ellis, Torres andSpikes to Indians for Nettles andMoses.
Nov 28 Gustave Frederic Soderlund, composer, dies at 91.
Nov 28 Los Angeles Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels.
Nov 30 BBC bans Wings "Hi, Hi, Hi".
Nov 30 Hans-Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (Kubiniana, Requiem), dies at 71
Nov 30 Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy)
Dec 01 Antonio Segni, Italian PM/pres (1955-57, 59-60, 62-64), dies at 81
Dec 02 "December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama).
Dec 02 Friedrich Christian Christiansen, German Luftwaffe general, dies
Dec 03 Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
Dec 06 Janet Munro, actress (Crawling Eye, Swiss Family Robinson), dies at 38
Dec 07 Adrian J Zoetmulder, author (God's Hour), dies at 91
Dec 07 Apollo 17, last of Apollo Moon series, launched.
Dec 07 Phillippine inaugural lady Imelda Marcos stabbed and wounded by an assailant.
Dec 08 George Collins, (Rep-Ill), dies at 47, in airplane crash
Dec 10 Mark A Van Doren, US literary (Our Lady Peace), dies at 78
Dec 11 Astronauts Cernan and Harrison become 11th and 12th on the Moon.
Dec 11 John Mills, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ in early 1930's, 241 runs), dies
Dec 12 Captain Eugene A. Cernan, USN, commander of Apollo 17, walks on the Moon. Commander Ronald E. Evans, USN, was the Command Module Pilot. The mission lasted 12 days, 13 hours and 52 minutes. Recovery by HC-1 helicopters from USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14).
Dec 13 An HC-1 Detachment Five SH-3G Sea King helicopter, stationed aboard Oriskany, rescued a VFP-63 pilot involved in operations in the Tonkin Gulf while on Yankee Station. This was the fifteenth pilot rescued by HC-1.
Dec 15 Edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), dies at 90.
Dec 16 Miami Dolphins become inaugural undefeated NFL team (14-0-0)
Dec 17 Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63.
Dec 17 New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
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