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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1988 Anthony Holland, AIDS sufferer committed suicide at 60. 
1989 inaugural time Wimbeldon has both men and women's final on same day, Boris Becker beats Stefan Edberg and Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratilova.
1990 Howard Duff actor, dies at 76 of a heart attack
1990 Brigitte D'Ortschy, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies in Japan at 69.
1991 St. Lazare Manitoba, 400 residents flee homes when train carrying highly corrosive acetic anhydride derails; emergency evacuation ends after six days.
1992 Eric Savareid, News correspondent (CBS), dies at 79.
1993 Peter Gill of the British Forensic Science Service announced that his team had positively identified the remains of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, his wife, Czarina Alexandra, three of their five children, and four of their servant
1993 Cut Meijer, [Saul Messel], historian/rabbi to Paramaribo, dies at 80
1994 Cornelius Boyson, bassist, dies at 57
1997 Near Coast of Venezuela a 7.0 quaked killed at least 81 people, 522 injured, extensive damage and landslides in the Cariaco-Cumana area. At least 3000 people were left homeless
1998 In the Azores Islands a 6.2 quake resulted in ten people killed, about 100 injured and 1000 left homeless on Faial
2007 While celebrating Argentinean Independence Day, snow falls in Buenos Aires for the inaugural time in almost 100 years
2011 South Sudan secedes from Sudan, per the result of the independence referendum held in January.
2011 South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan
2014 Joko Widodo is elected president of Indonesia.
2017 CEO Elon Musk is the inaugural owner of Telsa's inaugural mass market electric car - the Model 3
2017 English footballer Wayne Rooney announces he has left Manchester United after 13 years to rejoin Everton
2017 Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proclaims victory over Islamic State forces in Mosul.
2017 Atthaya Thitikul,14-year old Thai amateur is recorded as becoming youngest winner on Ladies's European Golf Tour at 14 years, 4 months at Ladies European Thailand Championship.
2017 Hundreds of thousands protest against the Turkish government at a rally in Istanbul, Turkey
2018 US President Trump names Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court nominee.
2018 Bright pink is the world's oldest biological colour according to scientists, produced by tiny cyanobacteria in 1.1bn-year-old marine shale rock from Taoudeni basin, Mauritania
2018 UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson steps down after Theresa May takes a softer Brexit stance.
2018 Jeremy Hunt is recorded as becoming UK Foreign Secretary after Boris Johnson 's resignation.
2018 Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed offically end the "no war, no peace" peace deal made in 2000 in Eritrea's capital, Asmara
2018 Train derailment results in the deaths of 24 in the Turkish province of Tekirdag
2018 4 more boys are rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped there with 8 others and their coach for 17 days by monsoon flooding (4 boys and their coach remain).
2018 US coffee company Starbucks announces it will stop using plastic straws by 2020, reducing use of more than 1 billion straws a year
2018 Hedge fund billionaire David Tepper buys Carolina Panthers for an NFL record $2.275 billion
2018 Eritrea and Ethiopia officially declare an end to their twenty-year conflict.
2023 Fantasy comedy film "Barbie", starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and directed by Greta Gerwig premieres at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles
2023 US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Chinese economic leaders end two days of talks in Beijing, aimed at stabilizing relations between the world's two biggest economies [1]
2023 New Zealand signs a free trade agreement with the European Union, increasing bilateral trade
2024 The 33rd NATO summit is held in Washington, D.C.
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