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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1987 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts inaugural female artist Aretha Franklin 
1988 Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut
1988 Margaret Thatcher is recorded as becoming longest-serving British PM this century.
1988 Gaston Eyskens, PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72), dies at 82.
1989 Jim and Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!).
1989 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its inaugural commercial advertisement
1990 Panama's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities.
1991 Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years.
1991 Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders
1992 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter.
1992 Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129* vs India at Sydney.
1993 Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months.
1993 The Russian and American leaders sign the second START agreement in Moscow.
1993 U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign a treaty to reduce the inventory of nuclear missiles
1994 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt.
1994 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field.
1994 A Russian Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia 122 killed.
1995 The U.S. Postal Service raises the price for a 1st-class stamp to 32 cents.
1997 Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV
1997 Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick vs England at Harare
1997 Zimbabwe clean-sweep ODI series vs England 3-0
2006 Twelve dead coal miners and one survivor are discovered in the Sago Mine Disaster near Buckhannon, West Virginia, U.S
2007 China conducts an anti-terror raid in Xinjiang.
2009 Israeli ground forces invade Gaza
2013 27 Shiite pilgrims are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing in Musayyib, Iraq.
2014 Cambodian garment workers go on strike demanding a wage increase.
2018 Security expert reveal two security flaws, Meltdown and Spectre which affect most microprocessors.
2018 Lawyers of US President Trump try to stop the publication of book on Trump's administration "Fire and Fury" by Michael Wolff
2018 Previously unknown ancient Beringians group of people unearthed in Alaska, earliest known Native Americans at 11500 years old.
2018 inaugural bionic hand with a sense of touch, for use outside a lab unveiled in Rome
2018 Landslide and flooding caused by heavy rains in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, results in the deaths of at least 37.
2019 116th US Congress convenes in Washington D.C., electing Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House of Representatives for the second time.
2019 "Surviving R. Kelly " docuseries investigating sexual abuse by R and B singer R. Kelly premieres on Lifetime in the US.
2019 Chinese probe Chang'e 4 is recorded as becoming the inaugural human-made object to land on the far side of the Moon.
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