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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1995 Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead 
1995 Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73.
1996 Haing S Ngor, doctor/actor (Killing Fields), dies at 45.
1997 Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic, dies at 71
1998 Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges
1998 Switzerland's inaugural legal brothel opens in Zurich.
1998 Luigi Veronesi, Italian abstract artist (Campo Grafico), dies at 90.
2005 60th anniversary of Radio Canada International2006 Police officers, and protesters injured when a protest prior to the Love Ulster parade turns into a major riot
2005 American police apprehended the so-called BTK serial killer Dennis Rader 31 years after his inaugural murder
2005 Terrorists killed 5 people and wounded 50 people in Tel Aviv, Israel. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for attack.
2006 In this year, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni claims his second re-election, sparking riots in Kampala by opposition supporters
2006 Police officers, and protesters injured when a protest prior to the Love Ulster parade turns into a major riot.
2007 In this year, The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, takes place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. The Departed claims Best Picture
2007 The European Space Agency confirms Rosetta's successful Mars trajectory fly-by
2009 BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more an 50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boaer Guas inside its headquarter.
2012 Syrian Army results in the deaths of 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama
2013 In this year, Italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, claims the Italian general election.
2014 50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria.
2017 Tom Perez is elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee
2018 Winter Olympics end in Pyeongchang, Korea with Norway winning a record 39 medals, 14 gold
2018 China briefly bans the letter 'N' as part of widespread censorship efforts
2018 Winter Olympics: Marit Bjoergen (Norway) is recorded as becoming the most successful winter athlete of all time (15 medals) with gold in the 30k cross country.
2021 In this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping claims the country has eradicated extreme poverty (earning less than US$620 a year), though many observers remain skeptical about the accuracy of Chinese data due to widespread corruption and lack of transparency [1].
2021 COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 2.5 million.
2021 The Armenian military calls for prime minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign. Pashinyan accuses the military of attempting a coup d'état.[40].
2023 Nigerian general election: Bola Tinubu is elected as Nigeria's president, defeating former vice president Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi.
2024 Lewis Koumas is an unused substitute in the 2024 EFL Cup final where Liverpool beat Chelsea 1–0 after extra time.
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