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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1993 Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81. 
1994 Jimmy Buddy Lee Land Ace, singer, dies at 57.
1995 Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist, dies at 76.
1996 Edward Leadbitter, politician, dies at 77.
1997 Alan Fluck, musical educationalist, dies at 69.
2005 Pope Benedict XVI leads his inaugural Christmas Midnight Mass as Pope, praying for peace in the Middle East
2006 Ethiopia admits its troops have intervened in Somalia
2007 The Nepalese government announces that the country's 240-year-old monarchy will be abolished in 2008 and a new republic will be declared.
2012 11 kindergarten children are killed after a minivan plunges into a roadside pond
2017 Guatemala follows in the footsteps of the United States by announcing that they will also move their Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, followed by Honduras and Panama two days later.
2018 Burundi moves its capital from Bujumbura to Gitega
2020 The United Kingdom and the European Union agree to a comprehensive free trade agreement prior to the end of the transition period.
2024 The 2025 Jubilee in the Catholic Church begins.
2024 The Parker Solar Probe breaks the previous record set in 2018 for the closest artificial object to the Sun by 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles), becoming the closest and inaugural man-made object to approach and "touch" the Sun
