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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players 
1990 Time Inc. aquired Warner Communications for the tidy little sum of $14.1 billion. Thus began Time Warner, one of the world’s largest media and entertainment conglomerates.
1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
1991 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis.
1992 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards.
1994 Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins.
1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
1994 Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
1995 "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12 30 AM.
1996 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
1997 4000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight".
1997 Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits.
1997 Italy's new 1000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
1997 Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as President of Nicaragua
2007 U.S. President George W. Bush announces a plan to station 21500 additional troops in Iraq.
2013 81 people are killed and 120 are wounded by a twin bombing in Quetta, Pakistan
2018 Jeff Bezos is recorded as becoming the second man worth over $100 billion as his wealth hits $106 billion due to a rise in Amazon's share price
2019 Lady Gaga apologises for working with R. Kelly in light of docuseries "Surviving R. Kelly"
2019 Venezuela enters a constitutional crisis as Juan Guaidó and the National Assembly declare incumbent President Nicolás Maduro "illegitimate" and start the process of attempting to remove him.
2020 The Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, dies aged 79. Haitham bin Tariq is sworn in as his successor
2021 Kim Jong-un is elected as the General Secretary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, inheriting the title from his father Kim Jong-il, who died in 2011.[10].
2023 Prince Harry 's memoir "Spare" goes on sale worldwide revealing controversial details of his upbringing and falling out with the British royal family [1].
2024 Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie bows out of the US Presidential race.
2024 Kawhi Leonard signs a $153 million extension with the Los Angeles Clippers over the next three years
2024 UK PM Rishi Sunak says he will overturn and compensate hundreds of postmasters prosecuted due to faulty Horizon IT system publicized in "Mr Bates vs The Post Office" [1]
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