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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1997 71st Australian Women's Tennis Martina Hingis beat Mary Pierce (62 62). 
1997 A cyclone sweeps across the island nation of Madagascar, spawning floods that leave 100 people missing and thousands homeless
1997 Herbert Eugene Caen, columnist, dies at 80.
1998 "Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City NY after 1503 performance.
1998 Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement
1998 Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) and soccer David Beckham gets engaged
1998 Two US tourists, Thomas and Eileen Lonergan, are left behind by a scuba diving operator on a reef off Port Douglas, north Queensland. They are never are discovered
1998 Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies
1999 More than one thousand people are killed when an eartquake rocks the South American country of Colombia
1999 The inaugural hand transplant in the U.S. takes place in Louisville, Kentucky.
2005 A stampede at Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi during a religious pilgrimage in India results in the deaths of at least 215, mostly women and small children.
2006 Deus Caritas Est, the inaugural encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, is promulgated.
2006 In this year, Hamas claims the majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections
2007 The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, takes a temporary leave of absence due to a sex scandal.
2010 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board.
2011 Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt
2013 Tropical cyclone Oswald makes landfall in Queensland, Australia, causing mass flooding
2014 Li Na defeats Dominika Cibulková to win the Australian tennis open
2017 Kisenosato is recorded as becoming the 1st Japanese home-grown sumo champion since 1998 when he is made yokozuna, 72nd Grand Champion.
2018 Doomsday clock moved by 30 seconds to 2 minutes to midnight by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, closest since 1950s
2018 Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi asked "are there any bookshops in Nigeria?" in controversial French interview.
2019 Documentary "Leaving Neverland" detailing singer Michael Jackson 's relationship with two boys premieres at the Sundance Film Festivval.
2019 A mine tailings dam breaks in the Brazilian city of Brumadinho, in the state of Minas Gerais. At least 248 people are killed, with 22 missing
2021 Janet Yellen is confirmed as the inaugural female treasury secretary by the US Senate.
2023 Chris Hipkins succeeds Jacinda Ardern as Prime Minister of New Zealand, six days after she announced her resignation.
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