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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1982 Miguel Vasquez makes inaugural public quadruple somersault on trapeze. 
1982 Gustav MR von Koenigswald, German/Dutch paleontologist, dies at 79
1983 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3222 Lillerand #3751.
1983 Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige), dies at 82.
1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
1985 Explosion sinks Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor.
1985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand
1985 Fernando Pereira, military activist, murdered.
1986 Israeli helicopters bomb Palestinian camps
1987 John Hammond, Jazz reviewer (Melody Maker), dies at 76.
1988 Errol John, playwright, dies at 63.
1989 Mel Blanc voice of cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny), dies at 81
1989 Mel Blanc, cartoon voice (Warner Bros cartoons), dies at 81
1990 Andrew Dice Clays cries on Arsenio Hall Show
1990 Hans Faverey, poet, dies
1991 Gerome Ragal author (Hair), dies at 48 of cancer.
1991 Gerome Ragal, author (Hair), dies of cancer at 48
1993 Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95.
1994 Earl Strum, referee (NBA), dies of brain cancer at 66
1995 Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman, dies at 74
1996 Eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman, dies at 79.
2005 Hurricane Dennis strikes near Navarre Beach, Florida as a Category 3 storm killing 10 people, after killing over 50 people in the Caribbean.
2005 Luxembourgish referendum on the European Constitution votes to accept
2007 2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in San Francisco (AL 5, NL 4)
2007 A Cessna 310R twin-engine airplane crashes into two homes in Sanford, Florida, killing three adults and two children
2007 Zheng Xiaoyu, head of State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China executed.
2011 In this year, British tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 168 years in the wake of a phone hacking scandal.
2012 The American Episcopal Church is recorded as becoming the inaugural to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages.
2013 40 people are buried in landslides in Sichuan Province, China.
2014 Yair Lapid warns of Israeli Defense Force ground operation if Gazan rocket fire do not stop
2017 NASA's Juno spacecraft makes closest ever pass over Jupiter's Great Red Spot at 9000 kilometers overhead
2017 Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
2018 The final 4 boys and their coach are rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped there for 18 days by monsoon flooding.
2018 Drake surpasses The Beatles record of most singles in Billboard Hot One 100 with seven against their five from his album "Scorpion"
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