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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1982 NYSE tops 100 M share volume figure, 132.69 M shares traded 
1982 Beverly Bayne, actress (Romeo and Juliet, Passionate Youth), dies at 87.
1983 Hurricane Alicia battered Houston andGalveston, Texas.
1983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
1984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
1987 Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel. His time 28 21, 10 hours faster than the inaugural man to do it.
1987 Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel. His time 28:21, 10 hours faster than the inaugural man to do it
1988 FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
1988 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million.
1988 Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
1988 Alexandr V Shchukin, Russian cosmonaut, dies in SU-26 crash at 42
1989 Bert Oosterbosch, cyclist, dies.
1990 B F Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86
1991 Pan Am games closes in Havana
1991 Vaughn Shoemaker, US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies
1992 Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO), dies.
1993 Waring factions in Yugoslavia agree to place Sarajevo under UN control
1993 Alf Bold, German festival programmer, dies of AIDS at 47.
1994 Gottlob Frick, singer, dies at 88
1995 James Ackley Maxwell, actor/director (Traitors, Otley), dies at 66
1996 Geoffrey Dearmer, poet, dies at 103
2005 BTK killer Dennis Rader is sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences.
2005 Peace Mission 205, the inaugural joint China-Russia military exercise, begins its 8-day training on the Shandong peninsula.
2007 Typhoon Sepat makes landfall in eastern Taiwan
2010 Hal Connolly, American Athlete and hammer thrower (b.1931).
2011 The West Memphis Three are released from prison after 18 years in imprisonment
2012 Al-Qaeda militants kill 14 people in an attack in Aden, Yemen
2013 6 people are killed by a bomb blast on a bus in West Bengal, India
2017 White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is fired by US President Donald Trump.
2018 Indian actress Priyanka Chopra and American singer Nick Jonas confirm their engagement with engagement party in Mumbai, India More >>
2018 Archaeologists confirm inaugural-ever cheese are discovered from Ancient Egypt 3200 years old in tomb of Ptahmes, mayor of Memphis.
2018 In this year, Australian mare Winx claims her Australasian record 26th consecutive race, the re-named Winx Stakes at Royal Randwick in Sydney; 19th Group One win for thoroughbreds.
2018 September 2 - The 2018 Asian Games are held in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia.
2019 US President Donald Trump confirms he is interested in buying Greenland for the US.
