Page 8: Historical Events In April - 27
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1987 US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II 

1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China 

1989 Mandatory seatbelt law comes into force in Italy. 

1990 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Mich) 

1990 Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery 

1991 Ken Curtis, actor (Lost, Freckles, Calif Gold Rush), dies at 74. 

1992 Olivier Messiaen, French composer, dies at 83. 

1993 Hans Sahl, German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at 90 

1994 Jerome Lejeune, physiologist, dies at 69. 

1996 Joan Sterndale Bennett, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows), dies at 86. 

1997 Paul Lambert, actor (Tom-Executive Suite), dies at 73. 

2005 The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its inaugural flight from Toulouse 

2007 Turkish Presidential Election inaugural round, which was later declared invalid by a Turkish court. 

2008 Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar killing 138373 people. 

2011 The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history 

2012 Four explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, kill 27 people 

2013 10 people are killed and 25 are injured after a bomb attack in Karachi, Pakistan. 

2014 Ariana Grande 's inaugural single from her second debut album, "Problem" featuring Iggy Azalea, is released 

2018 Historic Korean summit, the North's Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agree to officially end Korean war and rid peninsula of nuclear weapons. 

2018 Swedish band ABBA announce they have recorded new songs for the inaugural time since 1982 

2018 German leader Angela Merkel has a 1-day trip to Washington meeting US President Donald Trump 

2018 Mass protests across Spain after 5 men convicted of sexual abuse but not rape of teenage girl during Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona 

2018 More than 40 Tuareg killed over two days by suspected jihadists in Menaka region, Mali. 

2018 Kim Jong-un crosses into South Korea to meet with President Moon Jae-in, becoming the inaugural North Korean leader to cross the Demilitarized Zone since its creation in 1953. 

2019 Pope Francis donates $500000 for migrants stranded in Mexico trying to reach the US 

2020 In this year, The Pentagon formally releases three videos (previously leaked by Luis Elizondo in 2017) of "unidentified aerial phenomena" encountered by U.S. Navy pilots. 

2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases passes 3 million worldwide, while the number of confirmed cases in the U.S. passes 1 million 

2021 Brazil's Senate orders an official inquiry into President Jair Bolsonaro ' and government official's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic 

2023 Former Vice President Mike Pence appears before the federal grand jury investigating President Donald Trump ’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss [1] 

2023 James Corden 's final appearance as host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS, after 1196 episodes 

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