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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1988 Cliff Gladwin, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1947-49), dies. 
1989 Intel corp announces shipment of "fast" 80486 chip
1989 Intel corp announces shipment of the 80486 chip
1989 Joan Barry, dies at 85
1990 International Joint Commission says Canada and the US must stop dumping toxic substances into Great Lakes.
1991 Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Harry and Hendersons), dies of AIDS at 35.
1992 NHL strike ends after 10 days.
1992 Ken Ward, dies at 37.
1993 Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50
1994 James L Lyons, jazz promoter, dies at 77
1995 Chen Yun, VPM of China (1949-75, 79-80), dies
1996 Jessica Dubroff, attempting to be youngest pilot, dies in crash at 7.
2006 Romano Prodi narrowly defeats Silvio Berlusconi in the Italian parliamentary elections
2012 United Nations deadline for Syrian troop withdrawal passes as violence continues.
2013 Japan and Taiwan sign an agreement on fishing rights around the Senkaku Islands
2014 88 civilians are killed by barrel bombs from Syrian war planes in Aleppo, Syria.
2017 Edward Enninful is announced the new Editor of "British Vogue" its inaugural male and black editor.
2017 Alabama Governor Robert Bentley steps down over relationship with an aide and possible misuse of state funds to cover it up.
2017 "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" directed by James Gunn and starring Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana premieres in Toyko.
2018 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg begins testifying before US Congress about data use and security.
2019 inaugural-ever photo of a black hole announced, taken by The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration in 2017 in galaxy M87, 6.5 billion times the mass of earth, 55 million light-years away Learn More >>
2019 Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the inaugural ever image of a black hole, located in the centre of the M87 galaxy.
2019 Fossil fragments are discovered in the Callao Cave in the Philippines reveal the existence of the Homo luzonensis species of humans. The species is named after the island where it was discovered, Luzon
2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic: The Democratic Republic of the Congo reports the inaugural case of Ebola since February 2020. The outbreak has killed more than 2200 people since August 2018.
2020 The ESA/JAXA space probe BepiColombo makes its final gravity assist around Earth and begins to depart for Venus, where it will make several gravity assist maneuvers before finally arriving at Mercury in 2025.
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 100000 globally, a ten-fold increase from March 20
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] EU finance ministers agree on a €540 billion loan package to alleviate the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic
2021 China orders Alibaba pay a record fine of 18.2 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) after anti-trust regulations say it has been acting as a monopoly
2023 The Dalai Lama apologizes for a video showing him asking a boy to suck his tongue, after widespread criticism [1].
2023 Two document leaks from the Pentagon detailing foreign military aid relating to the Russian invasion of Ukraine are leaked onto the Internet.
2024 In this year, South Korea's liberal opposition party claims landslide majority in the country's general election - a defeat for President Yoon Suk Yeol , amid claims he was brought down by a spring onion [1].
2024 US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announce moves to counter Chinese aggression at a meeting at the White House [1].
2024 In this year, South Korean legislative election: The Democratic Party and Democratic Alliance claims 176 seats, while the People Power and People Future, to which President Yoon Suk Yeol belongs, claims only 108 seats
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