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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1983 A truck bomb explodes at the US Embassy in Kuwait 
1985 248 US soldiers and 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash in Newfoundland
1985 Anne Baxter, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel), dies at 62.
1986 Microlite aircraft circles world non-stop
1987 Louis de Meester, composer, dies at 83.
1988 NYC Subway system adds new stations (the Z line)
1988 Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
1988 John Canning, NY Post managing editor, dies at 56
1989 inaugural revenue train runs through the CP Rail 9.1 mile Mount MacDonald Tunnel. This is the longest rail tunnel in the Americas
1990 US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait.
1991 Actor Richard Gere marries super model Cindy Crawford
1991 Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection.
1991 Salman Rushdie faces new death threats, after a paperback edition of 'The Satanic Verses' is published
1991 Eleanor Boardman, actor (Crowd), dies in at 93.
1992 Bernard CJ Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposopher (Free College), dies at 87
1992 Flores earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia killing 2500 people.
1993 Ultra-Nationalists make strong gains in Russian elections dec13.
1993 Gerard "Ge" Nabrink, Dutch anarchist/NVSH-founder, dies at 90.
1994 Antoine Pinay, French PM (1952)/foreign minister, dies at 102
1995 Andrew Olle, broadcaster, dies at 48
2005 Scientists announced that they had created mice with small amounts of human brain cells in an effort to make realistic models of neurological disorders.
2006 Peugeot produce their last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in a city that was once a major centre of the British motor industry; Coventry
2007 Election by the Swiss Parliament of Switzerland's highest executive authority, the Swiss Federal Council (7 members). All the sitting members are confirmed, except Christoph Blocher, who in an upset is replaced by Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf. This is only the sixth time in Swiss history a sitting member is not reconfirmed
2014 UN climate change talks in Peru continue past scheduled time as negotiations continue to stall.
2017 Australian shopping mall firm Westfield is bought by French property company Unibail-Rodamco for $15.7 billion.
2017 Democrat Doug Jones defeats Republican Roy Moore for Alabama Senate seat in upset win marked by allegations of sexual misconduct against Moore
2018 Michael Cohen, former lawyer for US President Donald Trump sentenced to three years in prison for campaign-finance violations and tax fraud
2018 China built 88 out of world's 143 skyscrapers in 2018 more than any country ever (buildings over 200 meters/656 ft).
2018 American Media Inc. publisher of "National Enquirer" admits paying hush money to mistresses of US President Donald Trump
2018 Seven mass graves in former Islamic State area discovered containing hundreds of bodies, some tortured, near Albu Kamal, eastern Syria.
2018 Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev compete complex spacewalk to fix hole in Soyuz spacecraft
2018 British Prime Minister Theresa May survives 200-117 no-confidence vote from own Conservative Party
2019 In this year, British General Election won by Boris Johnson 's Conservative Party in landslide win with 80 seat majority. Scottish National Party also claims 48 of 59 seats in Scotland.
2019 The 2019 United Kingdom general election takes place for all 650 seats in the House of Commons.
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