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02/24/1978
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Kevin Porter, NJ, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
Type: Event
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02/24/1978
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Louise Woodward, ELton England, nanny who killed Matthew Eappen
Type: Birth
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02/24/1979
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Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas
Type: Event
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02/24/1979
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War between North and South Yemen begins
Type: Event
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02/24/1980
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"Canterbury Tales" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 16 performances
Type: Event
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02/24/1980
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Joanne Carner Ladies wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
Type: Event
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02/24/1980
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Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders
Type: Event
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02/24/1980
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USA Olympic hockey team defeated Finland, 4-2, to win the gold medal
Type: Event
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02/24/1981
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Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak
Type: Event
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02/24/1981
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Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer
Type: Event
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02/24/1981
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Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower
Type: Event
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02/24/1982
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24th Grammy Awards: Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy wins
Type: Event
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02/24/1982
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Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92
Type: Event
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02/24/1982
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Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71
Type: Death
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02/24/1983
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Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for 1st time
Type: Event
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02/24/1983
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USSR performs underground nuclear test
Type: Event
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02/24/1983
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Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90
Type: Death
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02/24/1983
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Tennessee Williams, US playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71
Type: Death
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02/24/1984
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Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
Type: Event
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02/24/1984
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Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59
Type: Death
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02/24/1985
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Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson
Type: Event
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02/24/1985
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Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
Type: Event
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02/24/1985
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Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
Type: Event
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02/24/1985
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Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King and I"
Type: Event
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02/24/1986
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Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million
Type: Event
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02/24/1986
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Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby
Type: Event
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02/24/1987
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29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins
Type: Event
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02/24/1987
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LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
Type: Event
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02/24/1987
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Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
Type: Event
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02/24/1988
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Matti Nykanen becomes winter olympics 1st triple gold medalist
Type: Event
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02/24/1988
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South African apartheid regime bans the UDF
Type: Event
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02/24/1988
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Supreme Ct votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody
Type: Event
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02/24/1988
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Irwan Chanin, US theater builder, dies at 96
Type: Death
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02/24/1989
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150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
Type: Event
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02/24/1989
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Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley
Type: Event
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02/24/1989
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Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
Type: Event
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02/24/1989
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US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
Type: Event
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02/24/1989
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US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Type: Event
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02/24/1989
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Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"
Type: Event
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02/24/1990
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Beth Daniel wins LPGA Orix Hawaiia Ladies Golf Open
Type: Event
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02/24/1990
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Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
Type: Death
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02/24/1990
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Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70
Type: Death
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02/24/1990
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Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93
Type: Death
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02/24/1990
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Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45
Type: Death
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02/24/1991
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"Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 perfs
Type: Event
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02/24/1991
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End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
Type: Event
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02/24/1991
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US and allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
Type: Event
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02/24/1991
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George Gobel, Chicago, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies at 71
Type: Death
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02/24/1991
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Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
Type: Death
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02/24/1991
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Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
Type: Death
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