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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Jan 19 Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI. 
Jan 20 Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie".
Jan 21 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
Jan 22 Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (54 Tests for England 4555 runs), dies
Jan 23 Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris.
Jan 23 Jack Oakie, actor (Great Dictator, Gang Buster), dies at 74
Jan 24 A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite disintegrates as it falls into the atmosphere, spreading radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada
Jan 24 A Russian satellite accidently crashes in Canada's Northwest Territory.
Jan 24 Nuclear-powered USSR satellite Cosmos 954 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates over the Northwest Territories, scattering radioactive debris over the barrens east of Great Slave Lake; Canadian Armed Forces launches operation to recover debris; USSR later pays Canada $3 million under a UN treaty covering costs of cleanup
Jan 25 Muriel Humphrey (D-MN) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat
Jan 25 Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse.
Jan 26 International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit.
Jan 26 Leo Genn, actor (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry V), dies at 72.
Jan 26 Mario Soares forms Portuguese government
Jan 26 Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40.
Jan 27 Marguerite Canal, composer, dies at 87.
Jan 28 "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV.
Jan 28 Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife
Jan 29 Sweden is the inaugural country to introduce a law banning the use of aerosol sprays harmful to the ozone layer
Jan 29 Tim McCoy, actor (Arizona Bound), dies at 86.
Jan 30 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio.
Jan 31 Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements
Feb 01 Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
Feb 01 Harriet Tubman is inaugural black woman honored on a US postage stamp
Feb 02 Wendy Barrie, TV hostess (Wendy Barrie Show), dies at 65.
Feb 04 Bergen Evans, English professor ($64000 Question), dies at 73.
Feb 05 Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Omzien), dies at 83
Feb 05 Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
Feb 06 Muriel Humphrey fills the U.S. senate seat of her late husband, Minnesota senator and former U.S. Vice President, Hubert Humphrey
Feb 06 Snowstorm hits New England (54" (137cm)).
Feb 07 Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert
Feb 08 Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah is recorded as becoming PM of Kuwait
Feb 08 U.S. senate deliberations are broadcast live on radio for the inaugural time.
Feb 09 Kimberly Leach, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City Fla at 12
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