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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1997 Norway's Boerge Ousland emerges on the Pacific edge of Antarctica to become the inaugural person to cross the continent alone and unaided. 
1997 Norwegian Borge Ousland completed a 1675-mile trek across Antarctica, the inaugural time anyone transversed the continent alone
1997 Myfanwy Piper, librettist, dies at 85.
2001 Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson admitted he had fathered a daughter born out of wedlock in 1999 to an employee of his Rainbow/PUSH coalition
2002 In another anti-terrorist step ordered by Congress, U.S. airlines began inspecting every piece of luggage checked by passengers
2003 Protesters nationwide demonstrated in opposition to possible war in Iraq.
2004 At least 23 people were reported killed when a powerful car bomb exploded in Baghdad. No Americans were listed among the dead.
2007 Comet McNaught, the brightest comet to appear in over 40 years, is recorded as becoming visible over the Southern Hemisphere. Hurricane Kyrill creates havoc as it passes across northern Europe.jan 18 - The strongest storm in the UK for 17 years results in the deaths of 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, caused at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm of the coast of Devon, England
2012 Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) blackout is recorded as becoming the largest protest in the history of the internet.
2014 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards: Mathew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett win
2017 Baseball Hall of Fame adds Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez.
2017 NASA and NOAA announce that 2016 was the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 which itself topped a record set in 2014
2018 inaugural drone rescue of swimmers by lifeguards in New South Wales, Australia.
2018 Brazilian surfer Maya Gabeira rides the largest-ever wave by a female surfer at 20.72 m (68 ft) at Praia do Norte in Nazaréin, Portugal
2019 Fuel thieves rupture a pipeline in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico, and a subsequent explosion results in the deaths of at least 137 people and injures dozens more.
2020 Yemeni Civil War: 111 Yemeni soldiers and 5 civilians are killed in a drone and missile attack on a military camp near Ma'rib.
2023 A helicopter crash in Brovary near Kyiv, Ukraine results in the deaths of 14 people including Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrsky
2024 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects US calls to scale back war with Hamas or establish Palestinian state, vowing, in a televised address, nothing other than "absolute victory" [1].
2024 Pakistan conducts retaliatory airstrikes on Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan province.
2025 27th and 28th US military strikes in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean sink two suspected drug smuggling vessels and kill five, bringing total deaths in the program to over 100
2025 98 people are killed in a fuel tanker explosion near Suleja, Niger State, Nigeria
2025 Two Sharia judges are assassinated in their rooms at the Supreme Court of Iran in capital Tehran. The gunman injures two other people and commits suicide after the attacks.
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