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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1996 Christine Pascal, actress/director (Smile, Elsa), dies at 43 
1997 The world learns of the Paris car crash that killed England's Princess Diana, her husband and Harrod's owner Dodi Fayed, and their driver
2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident in which a B-52 flew from Minot AFB, ND to Barksdale AFB, LA carrying 6 nuclear warheads
2012 Cholera outbreak results in the deaths of 229 people in Sierra Leone
2017 Late author Terry Pratchett ' unfinished works destroyed by steamroller as per his instructions
2017 Brazilian court blocks President Michel Temer from abolishing Renca, whihc would open parts of the Amazon to mining.
2017 Authorities say floods across Bangladesh, Nepal and India have killed more 1200 people and damaged 697000 houses.
2017 Hurricane Irma forms near Cape Verde Islands, will go on to become category 5 hurricane and kill at least 102
2018 Argentina's central bank raises interest rates to 60% in attempt to stabilize the peso.
2018 Ugandan pop star MP Bobi Wine re-arrested attempting to leave the country
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 25 million worldwide. India continues to record the highest daily increase of cases.
2021 The UN Environment Programme announces that leaded petrol in road vehicles has been phased out globally, a hundred years after its introduction.
2021 The United States withdraws its last remaining troops from Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, ending 20 years of operations in Afghanistan.
2023 Following the announcement of incumbent president Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection as President of Gabon after the presidential election, the military launches a successful coup d'état and creates the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions to govern the country, ending the rule of the Bongo family after 56 years in power
2025 PostNord, the Danish postal service, formally ends letter deliveries entirely, shifting exclusively to packages; the government agency was established in 1624 [1].
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