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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1989 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles. 
1989 Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81
1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
1990 Del Shannon, rock vocalist (Runaway), shoots self at 50.
1991 Miran Bux, cricketer (2 Tests for Pakistan 1954-55), dies at 47.
1992 "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1
1992 16th Winter Olympics games open in Albertville, France.
1992 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
1992 Baruch Lumet, actor (Killer Shrews), dies at 93.
1993 GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
1993 Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die.
1993 Casper van den Berg, Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies
1994 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car.
1994 Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432
1994 Ottawa slashes tobacco taxes to reduce rampant cigarette smuggling; and they say crime doesn't pay?.
1994 Jacob Firet, Dutch theologist (Agogic Moment), dies at 70
1995 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)
1995 In Ottawa Romeo LeBlanc sworn in as Canada's 25th Governor General
1995 B G Hooghoudt, radiotelescope build (Dwingeloo/Westerbork), dies at 70.
1996 US bookstore chain Borders says it will invest in a chain of bookstores in Canada; Ottawa will block the plan under the cultural exemption of NAFTA.
1997 In this year, Jean-Luc Brassard claims gold medal in free-style skiing at the World Championships in Nagano
1998 The inaugural female ice hockey game in Olympics history Finland beats Sweden 6-0
1999 A funeral service is held in Amman, Jordan, for King Hussein, who died the day before of cancer
2005 Danish parliamentary elections continued the center-right coalition led by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and his Liberal Party
2006 2006 East Timor crisis: 404 soldiers desert their barracks in East Timor.
2013 16 people are killed and 27 are wounded by a market bombing in Kalaya, Pakistan
2014 15 people are killed and 130 injured in a hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
2017 US Senate confirms Jeff Sessions Attorney General, after controversy and protests
2018 Twitter reports its inaugural quarterly profit as a public company
2018 Bangladesh court sentences former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to 5 years in prison for corruption.
2019 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos accuses The National Enquirer and its owner, American Media Inc, of blackmail over private messages detailing an extramarital affair
2024 Pakistan election: In an upset independents backed by imprisoned Imran Khan 's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party win the most seats with 97, PML-N win 76, PPP 54 [1].
2024 Pakistani general election: Independent politicians, most of whom are members of the banned political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, win a plurality of seats in the National Assembly
2025 magnitude 7.5 earthquake off of Japan's northeast coast leads to building damage and triggers a brief tsunami warning
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