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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1995 A strike-shortened National Hockey League season opened, with teams playing a 48-game schedule instead of the usual 84. 
1995 Russian ruble drops to 3947 per dollar (record).
1995 The U.S. State Department announces a partial lifting of economic sanctions against North Korea
1995 The United States announced it was easing the trade embargo in effect against North Korea since the Korean War.
1995 John Halas, Hungarian/US cartoonist (Animal Farm), dies at 81.
1996 Australia defeat Sri Lanka 2-0 to win World Series Cup.
1996 US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
1996 Yasser Arafat was elected president of the Palestinian Authority, with 88 percent of the vote
1996 Buster Benton, singer/guitarist, dies at 63
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars' orbit
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in New Orleans LA on KKND 106.7 FM
1997 Millionaire Steve Fossett landed in northern India after a record-setting bid to become the inaugural person to circle the globe in a hot-air balloon
1997 Pakistan defeats West Indies 2-0 to win Australia one-day Series.
1997 President Clinton was inaugurated for his second term in office.
1998 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mama and Papas, Eagles.
1998 Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tuesday night programming.
1999 On day two of U.S. President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial, his lawyers argue their case before the Senate, calling the House-passed articles of impeachment "flawed and unfair."
2000 Moveable Media, internet pioneer, is founded
2000 Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., warned the U.N. Security Council that the United States would withdraw from the world body if it failed to respect American sovereignty
2001 George W. Bush was inaugurated as the 43rd president of the United States.
2001 Just hours before leaving office, President Clinton issued 176 pardons -- a number of them controversial.
2003 Britain said it was sending 26000 troops to the Gulf for possible deployment to Iraq but France said it would not support a United Nations resolution for military action.
2004 President George W. Bush, in his State of the Union address, warned that the threat of more terrorist attacks was still very real.
2005 George W. Bush is inaugurated in Washington, D.C. for his second term as 43rd President of the United States.
2005 Ireland completes metrication
2009 Barack Obama, inaugurated as e 44 President of e United ates of America, is recorded as becoming e United ates' fir African-American president.
2013 Austria votes to maintain compulsory military service in a referendum
2014 Credit cards of at least 20 million South Koreans are hacked.
2017 Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America and Mike Pence as the 48th Vice President
2017 Car ploughs into pedestrians in central Melbourne, killing 6 and injuring 27.
2017 Donald Trump is sworn in by Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts as the 45th President of the United States of America. Trump, a Republican New York City businessman, is recorded as becoming the inaugural non-political office holder or member of the military to hold the office. Mike Pence, former Governor of Indiana, takes the oath of office as the 48th Vice-President of the United States
2018 Turkey, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announces the beginning of a military offensive to capture a portion of northern Syria from Kurdish forces, amidst the ongoing Kurdish–Turkish conflict
2018 The United States government enters a federal government shutdown as a result of a dispute over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
2021 Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States.
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