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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1983 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock. 
1983 Jerzy Andrezjewski, writer, dies.
1984 Mabel Mercer, English/US singer (Fly me to the moon), dies at 84
1985 Karyn Marshall of NYC lifted 303 lbs in a clean-and-jerk lift
1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
1987 "Starlight Express"posted the largest week’ s gross in Broadway history. The roller-skating musical earned $606081 at the box office.
1987 In this year, Rosa Mota claims the women's division of the Boston Marathon
1987 Antony Tudor, dancer/choreographer (Amer Ballet Theater) dies at 78
1990 Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300000 in income.
1990 Horst Sinderman, RDA 1st minister (1973-76), dies.
1991 Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million.
1991 Don[ald] Siegel, US director (Coogan's Bluff/Dirty Harry), dies at 78
1992 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs.
1992 Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain.
1992 Benny Hill, comedian (Benny Hill Show), dies of a heart attack at 67.
1993 Cantinflas, [Mario Moreno], Mexican actor (Pepe), dies at 81.
1994 Jean Carmet, French actor (Merci la Vie, Le Sucre), dies at 72.
1995 Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavian politician (1945-54), dies
1996 Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, bBC Executive, dies at 88
1999 "A bug's Life" is the inaugural DVD to be transfered directly from the digital source making it the inaugural 100 percent digital DVD.
1999 Victims and shooters of the Columbine High School massacre
2002 Layne Staley, American grunge singer of Alice in Chains
2005 Fifty six hurt as earthquake hits Fukuoka and Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The earthquake measured a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale
2006 Iran announces a uranium enrichment deal with Russia, involving a joint uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil; nine days later Iran announces that it will not move all activity to Russia, thus leading to a de-facto termination of the deal.
2010 The Deepwater Horizon oil platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers. The resulting oil spill, one of the largest in history, spreads for several months, damaging the waters and the United States coastline, and prompting international debate and doubt about the practice and procedures of offshore drilling
2012 Plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, results in the deaths of 127 people.
2013 193 people are killed and 11826 are injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Lushan County, China.
2017 Terrorist attack on police van on Champs Élysées, Paris 1 police officer killed, 2 injured
2018 Mexican court bars sales of controversial Frida Kahlo Barbie doll.
2018 Arsène Wenger announces he will leave London EPL club Arsenal after 22 years as manager
2018 Commonwealth countries decide Prince Charles will suceed Queen Elizabeth as the next head of the Commonwealth.
2018 Actress Allison Mack arrested on charges of sex trafficking in relation to sex cult NXIVM in New York.
2018 King Mswati III of Swaziland changes the name of Swaziland to eSwatini, or “land of the Swatiâ€
2020 Oil prices reach a record low, with West Texas Intermediate falling into negative values.
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