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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Dec 01 Nick Kenny, US columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show), dies at 80 
Dec 03 Hugh Thurlow, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1932), dies.
Dec 03 Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed.
Dec 04 Hannah Arendt, German/US sociologist, dies at 69 [or Dec 5]
Dec 05 Jimmy Nervo, actor (Frozen Limits), dies
Dec 05 NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed.
Dec 06 H-46 Sea Knight helicopters from NAS Whidbey Island began search and rescue operations in the northwestern Washington state areas flooded by heavy rains.
Dec 07 Canadian skier Ken Read is the inaugural Canadian to win a World Cup event, a downhill racve at Val D'Isere, France
Dec 07 Hardie Albright, actress (Silver Streak, Scarlet Letter), dies at 71
Dec 09 President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for NYC
Dec 09 William A Wellman, US director (Ox Bow Incident), dies at 79.
Dec 10 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize.
Dec 11 inaugural class postage rises from $0.10 to $0.13
Dec 12 In this year, Gas stove explodes and starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)
Dec 12 Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford
Dec 13 Cyril Delevanti, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88
Dec 14 6 South Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days.
Dec 14 Arthur Treacher, TV announcer (Merv Griffin Show), dies at 81
Dec 15 Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63
Dec 17 Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67.
Dec 17 Lynette Fromme was sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life.
Dec 19 John Paul Stevens is recorded as becoming a Supreme Court Justice
Dec 20 Vincent Lopez, orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76
Dec 21 "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances.
Dec 21 inaugural New York Jet to gain 1000 yards rushing (John Riggins).
Dec 21 William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61.
Dec 23 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act.
Dec 23 Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead.
Dec 24 Bernard Herrmann, US movie composer, dies at 64
Dec 25 Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Library Gallimard), dies at 94
Dec 26 Russia begins the world's inaugural supersonic air transport service with its Tupolev-144 run from Moscow to Alma-Ata.
Dec 27 Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India)
Dec 28 Red Army beats New York Rangers 7-3 at MSG
Dec 28 Rob Niedermayer hockey player, was born at Cassiar, British Columbia.
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