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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1978 Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75 
1979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama
1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should release all US hostages
1979 Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66
1981 NASA launches Intelsat V
1982 Reputed to be 'Robin Hoods' tree, the 'Major Oak' in Sherwood forest, is fitted with a fire alarm.
1982 Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, and 4 others convicted of bribery
1982 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar.
1983 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB.
1984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet.
1984 Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74
1985 Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielson wed.
1986 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift.
1986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure.
1988 Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
1989 Panama declares war on the United States
1989 Arnold Moss, actor (Gambit), dies at 79.
1990 Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter.
1990 Betty Warren actress (Passport to Pimlico), dies
1991 Horatio Luro, US horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90.
1993 Downing Street Declaration on Northern Ireland issued
1993 GATT Uruguay Round completed.
1993 Kakuei Tanaka, PM of Japan (1972-74), dies.
1994 Diane Modahl banned from Athletics for Drug Use, in the UK.
1994 Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), dies at 86
1995 The New York Stock Exchange charged into the record books on this day. The Big Board posted a new mark for trading volume, as 652.8 million shares changed hands, topping the old mark of 608.2 million shares.
1995 James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88
1996 Gerald Moverley, priest, dies at 74.
1997 Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98.
2005 The inaugural parliamentary elections under Iraq's new constitution
2006 An alleged assassination attempt on the Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh sparks inter-Palestinian clashes
2006 Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the King of Bhutan, abdicates in favour of his son Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck a year earlier than expected.
2006 Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter successfully flies for the inaugural time.
2006 The Japanese government passes a bill to upgrade the Japan Defense Agency to a Ministry.
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