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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1986 Hein Vergeer is recorded as becoming world champion skater. 
1986 Howard Da Silva, Cleve Oh, actor (Ben Franklin-1776), dies at 76.
1987 John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins.
1987 Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, composer, dies at 82.
1988 inaugural documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador.
1989 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and North Yemen form common market.
1989 Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage.
1989 William Hayden is recorded as becoming governor-General of Australia
1990 Keith Haring, artist/cartoonist (brilliant baby), dies of AIDs at 31.
1991 Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands
1991 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding.
1991 Enrique B Varela, commandant Nicaragua contra's, dies
1992 Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow and blue.
1992 Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated.
1993 Donald Phelps, dies of AIDS at 61.
1994 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, results in the deaths of 200
1994 Over 200 people die as a powerful earthquake rocks the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
1994 Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru.
1995 John Everett Allen, US businessman, dies at 91.
1996 Gary Kirsten scores 188 for South Africa vs UAE at Rawalpindi
1996 Charles McCorquodale, art historian, dies at 47
1997 At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history
1998 Tellabs Inc acquires Coherent Communications Systems for $670 million.
1999 Testimony begins in the Jasper, TX, murder trial of John William King, charged in the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr.
2005 The Kyoto Protocol went into effect, without the support of the United States and Australia
2005 The National Hockey League canceled its 204-205 season becoming the inaugural North American professional league to cancel a season due to a labour dispute.2006 Kobe Airport, a controversial offshore airport in Kobe, Japan, opens for airline service.
2006 Kobe Airport, a controversial offshore airport in Kobe, Japan, opens for airline service
2013 84 people are killed and 190 are injured after a market bombing in Hazara Town, Pakistan
2014 67th British Academy Film Awards: 12 Years a Slave, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Cate Blanchett win
2017 In this year, Suicide attack on shrine of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Sehwan, Pakistan results in the deaths of 72, Islamic State claims responsibility
2017 In this year, Car bomb in Bayaa, Baghdad results in the deaths of at least 48, Islamic State claims responsibility. 3rd attack in 3 days
2018 More than 10000 orangutans killed in Borneo since 1999 according to study published in "Current Biology"
2018 National state of emergency declared in Ethiopia in wake of anti-government protests
2023 Lawmakers in the Russian State Duma vote to withdraw Russia from 21 conventions of the Council of Europe.
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