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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1994 Gene Cherico, bassist, dies at 59. 
1995 Frank Cvitanovich, film maker, dies at 68.
1996 Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat, dies at 73
1997 Erwin Schrodinger, Physicist is born.
1997 Luther Allison, blues performer (Motown), dies of cancer at 57.
2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched.
2007 In this year, Tiger Woods claims PGA Championship, his 13th career major.
2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony completes the games.
2013 8 people are killed and 25 are injured in a suicide bomb attack in Balad, Iraq
2014 Ebola outbreak death toll exceeds 1000
2017 Usain Bolt injures himself in his very last race - mens 4x100m relay, Jamaica misses gold at world championships.
2017 "Unite the Right" march in Charlottesville, Virginia turns violent when car rams protesters killing 1, injuring 19
2017 US President Donald Trump at a press conference at Trump Tower says “there is blame on both sides†about Charlottesville violence, provoking widespread condemnation.
2018 An American clean sweep of the 3m diving medals via Marjorie Gestring, Katherine Rawls and Dorothy Poynton-Hill at the Berlin Olympics
2018 NASA launches the Parker Space Probe, its inaugural mission to the Sun and its outermost atmosphere, the corona.
2018 US man steals a plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, flies for an hour chased by military jets before crashing on Ketron Island.
2018 100th PGA Championship, Bellerive CC: Brooks Koepka is recorded as becoming only the 5th player to win 2 major titles in a calendar year (US Open 2018) when he beats Tiger Woods by 2 strokes
2018 More than 200 Afghan soldiers reported killed after 3 days of attacks by taliban insurgents over multiple fronts including Ghazni city.
2018 Mali's Presidential run-off election held, eventually won by current President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita with opposition disputing outcome.
2018 The five littoral states - Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan - sign the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, ending the 20-year long dispute over the Caspian Sea's legal status
2018 NASA launches the unmanned Parker Solar Probe to study the Sun at close range and the solar wind
2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: Hong Kong International Airport is closed due to protests.
2019 Japan–South Korea trade dispute: South Korea announces the removal of Japan from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on September 18
2019 The Trump administration announces it will delay its proposal for 10 percent tariffs slated to take effect from September 1 on certain consumer goods from China while exempting other products — less than two weeks after Trump announced the new proposed tariffs
2021 The 2021 Zambian general election is held
2025 "Zootopia 2" is recorded as becoming the quickest PG-rated film to reach $1 Billion at the box office worldwide [1]
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