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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1992 Fred Slyter, dialogue coach, dies after long illness at 56 
1993 Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA
1993 Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism
1993 Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror.
1994 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives claims.
1994 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan.
1994 Han Jansen, Dutch painter, dies at 62.
1995 Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies
1997 73 Israelis die when army copters collide.
1997 A civil jury finds O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her companion, Ronald Goldman.
1997 In Turkmenistan-Iran Border Region a 6.8 earthquate occured. At least 88 people killed, nearly 2000 injured, about 5500 houses destroyed and 11000 houses damaged in the Bojnurd-Shirvan area, Iran
1997 Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish.
1997 James Friell, political cartoonist, dies at 84.
1998 Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium
1998 In the Tajikistan Border region of Afghanistan a 6.1earthquate at least 2323 people killed, 818 injured, 8094 houses destroyed, 6725 livestock killed and landslides occurred in the Rostaq area, Afghanistan
2006 The Wowowee stampede occurred at the PhilSports Arena. 61 killed.
2007 The Indianapolis Colts defeat the Chicago Bears 29-17 in Super Bowl XLI, played at Dolphin Stadium, Miami
2012 Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland.
2013 20 people are killed after an apartment building was struck by a rocket in Aleppo, Syria.
2014 10 people are killed and 35 injured after a bus falls into a ravine in Pune, India
2018 Super Bowl LII, US Bank Stadium, Minneapolis: Philadelphia Eagles defeat New England Patriots, 41-33; MVP: Nick Foles, Philadelphia, QB
2021 President Joe Biden announces that the United States will cease providing weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for use in the Yemeni Civil War
2024 President of Namibia Hage Geingob dies at the age of 82, and is succeeded by his vice-president Nangolo Mbumba
2024 In this year, Salvadoran general election: Incumbent President Nayib Bukele claims the election with over 80% of the vote, becoming the inaugural president to be reelected in El Salvador since 1944.
2025 22nd known lethal US military strike in international waters of suspected drug smuggling vessel results in the deaths of four in the eastern Pacific Ocean
2025 China–United States trade war: China announces export controls and increased tariffs on certain American imports in retaliation for Donald Trump's imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods.
2025 At least 11 people (and the perpetrator) are killed and another 15 are injured after a gunman opens fire at an adult education centre in Örebro, Sweden, the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history
2025 Donald Trump announces that the United States will take control of the Gaza Strip in an agreement with Israel, and that the U.S. military will be in charge of Gaza's reconstruction
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