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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1981 John Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent to attempting to kill US President Ronald Reagan. He is later acquitted by reason of insanity. 
1981 National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men
1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3 47.33 (since broken).
1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)
1982 G W A Chubb, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, 21 wickets), dies.
1983 Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2215 clay pigeons shot in an hour.
1983 Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66
1985 Launch of Aussat, Australia's inaugural domestic communications satellite
1985 Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88
1986 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying.
1987 John Huston, US/Irish actor/director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81.
1988 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
1988 Hazel Dawn, US singer/actress (Under Clover, Margie), dies at 98
1990 Iraq declares Kuwait its 19th province.
1990 Kuwait declared the 19th province of Iraq, by Saddam Hussein
1990 Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske and Wiske), dies.
1991 5 die in a NYC subway's 3rd worst accident
1991 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher
1991 Christian Anders, actor/composer (Death Stone, Love Cult), dies
1992 National Defence sends destroyer HMCS Gatineau to monitor UN embargo against Yugoslavia and moves to NATO standing force in Mediterranean
1993 René Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again), dies at 80
1994 David Wright, poet, dies at 74
1995 Chase Manhattan and Chemical Bank announce plans for a $10 billion merger to become the largest bank in the US
1995 Agnes Patrick, campaigner, dies at 85.
1996 Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce, ending 15 years of marriage
1996 Lynda Carr, educationist, dies at 50
2005 In this year, Terrorist wounds 52 at bus station in Beersheba, Israel. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for attack.
2006 A Greyhound Lines bus from New York City to Montreal, carrying 52 people, crashes at mile 115 on Interstate 87 near Elizabethtown killing 5 people including the driver and several are seriously injured.
2012 Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party's candidate
2013 China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of chemical weapons.
2017 Kenya brings in world's toughest ban on plastic bags with possible US$38000 fine and four years in jail
2017 North Korea launches missile that flies over Japan, the country's J-Alert warning system warns people to take cover
2017 English actor Ed Skrein pulls out of role in movie “Hellboy†after whitewashing criticism
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