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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1980 Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80. 
1981 Phillie Steve Carlton strikes out his 3000th batter
1983 Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's inaugural black mayor.
1985 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
1985 In this year, Tony Tubbs claims the WBA heavyweight boxing championship
1986 Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25
1988 "60 Minutes" newscaster Diane Sawyer weds Mike Nichols.
1988 Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson marry
1988 Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies
1991 Denison Mines to close uranium plant in Elliot Lake, putting 1000 out of work yup I owned the stock not a plan.
1991 Environment Minister Jean Charest announces $100 million program to clean up toxic sites and contaminated waste dumps in the Arctic, most are from the US and Canadian military
1991 Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies
1991 Bangladesh cyclone in Bangladesh killing 138866 people
1992 Voting ends on choice of Elvis stamps
1992 Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84
1993 Cy Howard, director (Lovers and Other Strangers), dies at 77
1994 Bill Quinn, US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81.
1995 In Kitchener Ontario butchers finish making the world's longest sausage, with a length of 28.77 miles.
1995 Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57
1996 David William Eric Davis, broadcaster, dies at 87
1997 Keith Ferguson, blues (Fabulous Thunderbirds), dies of overdose at 50
2005 In this year, Apple Computer releases Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger."
2006 Massive anti-war demonstrations and a mar down Broadway in New York City mark the third year of war in Iraq.
2006 The Global Night Commute takes place in over 130 cities around the world to promote the visibility of the Invisible Children in Uganda
2011 An estimated two billion people[23] watch the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London
2012 International Chemical Weapons Convention deadline for chemical weapon stockpiles comes into effect
2013 7 people are killed after a Boeing 747 crashes in Bagram, Afghanistan.
2017 3 tornadoes hit south east of Dallas, Texas, killing 5
2018 UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd steps down amid immigration scandal involving the Windrush generation.
2018 Sweden's official Twitter account confirms Swedish meatballs actually originated in Turkey.
2018 In this year, Spanish tennis great Rafael Nadal equals his Open-era record for most claims at the same event (11 Monte Carlo) with his 11th Barcelona ATP title
2018 Animated series " The Simpsons " surpasses "Gunsmoke"'s 635-episode count to have highest episode count of any series on TV.
2019 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive leader of the Islamic State terrorist organization, appears in undated footage released by the group, his inaugural appearance on video since 2014. In the video, he references the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, indicating it was filmed very recently.
2020 (52768) 1998 OR2, a near-Earth asteroid that is 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) wide, makes a close approach of 0.042 AU (6.3 million km; 16 LD) to Earth. It will not approach closer than this until 2079.
