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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1989 USSR President Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican 
1989 Alvin Ailey, US choreographer (Blues Suite, Revelations), dies at 58
1990 Engineers digging a rail tunnel under the English Channel link up between England and France at a point forty meters beneath the seabed, and the island of Britain is connected with the European mainland for the inaugural time since the Ice Age
1990 Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
1990 Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia hold their inaugural joint session
1990 Jan H de Groot, Dutch co-founder (Vrij Nederland), dies.
1991 Ukranian people vote for independence.
1991 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
1991 Byron Webster, actor (That Man Bolt), dies of AIDS at 58.
1994 Hugh Chilvers, cricketer (151 wickets leg-spin for NSW 1928-37), dies.
1995 Michael Monus, the former president of the Phar-Mor drug store chain, was are discovered guilty of embezzling roughly $1 billion from the company.
1996 A volcano erupts in eastern Zaire, spewing a plume of ash and lava into the air.
1996 Chemin de fer Baie des Chaleurs, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Quebec Railway Corporation, commences operation over the former CN line beween Matapedia and Chandler, Que.
1996 In a move that led to a public-relations disaster, America Online shifted to a flat $19.95-per-month fee for unlimited access
1996 Barbak Karmal, politician, dies at 67
1998 St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad (Quebec) commences operation over the CN Sherbrooke subdivision between St. Rosalie, QC and Norton, VT.
2005 South Africa is recorded as becoming the fifth country in the world where same-sex marriages are recognized
2006 The 15th Asian Games start in Doha, Qatar; the closing ceremony takes place on dec 15.
2006 Typhoon Durian results in the deaths of at least 388 people in Albay province on the island of Luzon in the Philippines
2012 8 people are killed and 36 injured after a bus overturns in Bolivia
2017 President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I.
2018 British boxer Tyson Fury dominates much of the fight but survives 2 knockdowns to force a split decision draw with defending WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder at the Staples Center, Los Angeles
2018 Violent demonstrations in Paris, France, by yellow-vest movement with 36000 protesting nationwide
2018 Egyptian actress Rania Youssef charged for "inciting debauchery" after wearing see-through dress to Cairo film festival.
2018 In this year, Ariana Grande releases the music video to her single "Thank U Next", biggest ever launch on Youtube Premiere.
2018 World's inaugural super-high definition 8K television channel by Japanese broadcaster NHK launches
2018 Syrian shadow puppetry added to UN list of cultural activities in urgent need of saving
2018 France experiences its worst civil unrest since the protests of 1968 due to the yellow vests movement. Protests in Paris morph into riots, with hundreds of people injured and thousands arrested; over 100 cars are burned, the Arc de Triomphe is vandalized and numerous other tourist sites are closed, both in the capital and elsewhere in the country.
2019 In this year, British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton claims season-ending Abu Dhabi GP to claim his 6th F1 World Drivers C'ship by 87 points from team mate Valtteri Bottas; Mercedes' 6th straight Constructors title
2020 Actor Elliot Page, formerly known as Ellen Page , reveals he is transgender
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] Pfizer and BioNTech announced an Emergency Use Authorization application to the European Medicines Agency.
2020 The Arecibo Telescope of the Arecibo Observatory collapses, just weeks after the announcement of its planned demolition
2024 In this year, Romanian parliamentary election: The incumbent National Coalition for Romania claims a plurality of votes, with far-right parties making substantial gains.
2025 Indian chess prodigy Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, from Madhya Pradesh, is recorded as becoming youngest player to earn official FIDE (International Chess Federation) rating at 3 years, 7 months and 20 days old, besting November 2024 youngesr record holder Anish Sarkar, by about a month
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