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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices 
1973 Arthur Richardson, cricketer (9 Tests 1924-26), dies.
1975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act.
1975 Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead.
1976 Frank Forest, actor (Big Broadcast of 1937, Champagne Waltz), dies.
1982 Jack Webb, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet), dies of a heart attack at 62
1983 In this year, Journal Science publishes inaugural report on nuclear winter
1985 James Vance (20) and Raymond Belknap (18), commit suicide, sparking their families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages
1986 Voyager completes global flight, Rutan and Yeager make around-the-world flight without refueling.
1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison.
1989 Josef Alexander, composer, dies at 82
1990 Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia.
1990 Frank King, cricketer (WI fast bowler played 14 Tests 1953-56), dies
1991 New York Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell steps down
1991 Byron Q Griffith, producer/actor, dies at 73
1992 Cyril Walters, cricketer (11 Tests for England, 784 runs), dies
1993 Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92.
1994 Charles Shirley, jazz arranger, dies at 74.
1995 David Land, impressario, dies at 77
1996 Rina Ketty, singer, dies at 85
1997 Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, dies at 90.
2005 Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashed shortly after takeoff killing 23 people
2005 Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18th attack on Adre, which left about 10 people dead
2005 Lech Kaczynski is sworn in as the President of Poland in Warsaw, Poland
2005 Trial of Tali Fahima ends in a plea bargain.
2005 U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announces the inaugural in an expected series of troop drawdowns following Iraqi elections.
2007 In this year, A general election is held in Thailand. The People's Power Party, which is associated with former Prime Minster Thaksin Shinawatra, claims a majority of seats in the parliament
2007 A grand conjunction in which the solar system will align with the galactic center.
2007 Presidential election in Uzbekistan.
2012 200 civilians are killed by the Syrian government’s warplanes in Helfaya, Syria
2019 28 people are killed and 13 others injured after a bus plunges into a ravine on a winding road in South Sumatra.December 24 - Thousands of Muslims protest the December 20 burning of four mosques in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia
