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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1984 Prince's "Purple Rain," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 24 weeks 
1984 Republic of Upper Volta is recorded as becoming Bourkina Fasso (National Day)
1984 Walter Burke actor, dies at 75 of emphysema
1984 Edmond Ryan, actor (Human Monster), dies at 79 of a heart attack.
1985 Zbynek Vostrak, composer, dies at 65
1987 FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters
1987 Kenny Price, comedian (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw), dies at 56.
1988 Congress votes $20000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
1988 Hertz car rental to pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
1988 Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case.
1990 European community proposes a boycott of Iraq
1991 Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80.
1992 Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 93
1993 Bernard Barrow, actor (Louie-Loving, Johnny-Ryan's Hope), dies.
1994 Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian/journalist, dies at 69.
1995 Dick Bartell, baseball player, dies at 87
1996 26th Olympic Summer games close in Atlanta, Georgia.
1996 Geoff Hamilton, gardner/journalist, dies at 59
1997 Jeanne Calment, world's oldest person (Feb 21 1875), dies at 122
2007 Smoking in public places is banned in Slovenia.
2007 The 92nd World Congress of Esperanto is held in Yokohama, Japan
2007 The National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Mold, Flintshire, Wales.
2007 The Phoenix spacecraft launches toward the Martian north pole.
2007 A UK-wide ban on movement of all livestock is in place after foot and mouth disease is are discovered on the Surrey farm.
2012 45 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Abyan, Yemen.
2013 Hassan Rouhani is inaugurated as the President of Iran
2014 Hamas and Israel agree to another 72 hour ceasefire.
2017 In this year, Rwandan President Paul Kagame claims a third term with 98.63% of the vote
2017 Aldi supermarket withdraws all eggs from sale after chemical fipronil are discovered in eggs from The Netherlands.
2018 Super Rugby Final, AMI Stadium, Christchurch: Canterbury Crusaders successfully defend title with 37-18 home win against the Lions from Johannesburg; Crusaders' 9th SR title.
2018 President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela survives an assassination attempt by drone, live on TV.
2019 Cairo bombing: A car crashes into three other cars causing an explosion outside the National Cancer Institute Egypt in Cairo, Egypt, killing at least 20 people and injuring 47 others
2019 Dayton shooting: Ten people, including the perpetrator, are killed and 27 others injured in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, United States, just 13 hours after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas
2020 An explosion caused by unsafely stored ammonium nitrate results in the deaths of over 220 people, injures thousands, and severely damages the port in Beirut, Lebanon. Damage is estimated at $10–15 billion, and an estimated 300000 people are left homeless. The following day, the Lebanese government declares a two-week state of emergency.
