Hisdates•Com
HomePage 8: Historical Events In August - 17
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1990 Pearl Bailey broadway actress/singer, dies at 72 from a heart attack. 
1990 Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment.
1990 Pearl Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies of heart attack at 72
1991 Wade Frankum runs amok with automatic rifle and knife at Strathfield in Sydney, killing seven people and himself
1991 Don Dubbins, actor (Enchanted Island, DI), dies at 63
1992 Andre de Villiers, South African, murdered.
1993 Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator/interpreter, dies at 72.
1998 U.S. President Bill Clinton admits in a televised address to having had inappropriate relations with ex-White House intern Monica Lewinsky
1999 Izmit earthquake in Turkey killing 17127 people
2005 Bangladesh is hit by bomb explosions. [2].
2005 Sellapan Ramanathan gains victory in the Singapore Presidential elections, 205
2005 The inaugural forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
2007 Vladimir Putin issues a statement, revealing that Russia is to resume the flight exercises of its Strategic bombers in remote areas. The flights were suspended in 1991 after the Collapse of the Soviet Union
2012 Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years.
2013 15 civilians are killed by a Syrian warplane attack in Aleppo.
2017 Terror attack on Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain as van rams into crowds killing 16, injuring 120
2017 Three Hong Kong activists, Jason Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow jailed for unlawful assembly.
2017 Anti-immigrant One Nation party leader Pauline Hansen is widely criticized for wearing a burqa into the Australian parliament.
2017 Collision of two neutron stars witnessed for the inaugural time inaugural picked up by US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Ligo).
2017 The inaugural observation of a collision of two neutron stars (GW170817) is hailed as a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy when both gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the event are detected. Data from the event provided confirmatory evidence for the r-process theory of the origin of heavy elements like gold.
2024 Indonesia's 79th Independence Day celebration is held in Nusantara. The celebration is supposed to inaugurate Nusantara as the new capital of Indonesia, but this does not occur due to delays.
2025 26th US military lethal strike in international waters of a suspected drug smuggling vessel results in the deaths of four
2025 Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years are are discovered on a mountain in Stelvio National Park in northern Italy [1].
« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Next Page »
