Page 9: Historical Events In July - 10
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
2018 Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo joins Italian champions Juventus in a deal worth £99.2m, becoming one of the four most expensive players of all time 

2018 Original sketch of Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood by EH Shepard sells for £430000 in London, record price for a book illustration. 

2018 Twelve boys and their football coach are successfully rescued from the flooded Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Thailand, following a 17-day ordeal that gained worldwide attention 

2019 Taylor Swift named the world's highest paid entertainer by Forbes earning $185 million in 2018. 

2019 The last Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico. The last of 5961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum. 

2020 Sixth century cathedral Hagia Sophia turned into a mosque by decree issued by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (converted to a mosque 1453-1934) Learn More. 

2020 The ECB accepts Bulgaria and Croatia into ERM II, a mandatory stage for countries wishing to adopt the euro. This is the currency union's inaugural major expansion in half a decade 

2020 Turkey's President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan orders the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul to be reverted to a mosque following a supreme court annulment of a 1934 presidential decree that made it into a museum 

2021 The 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup is held in, and is won by, the United States 

2023 Fourteenth century document by a civil servant asking for time off identified as only known handwriting by Geoffrey Chaucer , the 'Father of English Literature' [1]. 

2023 US President Joe Biden visits the UK, meeting King Charles III at Windsor Castle and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Downing Street [1]. 

2023 China and the Solomon Islands sign a cooperation agreement between the People's Police and the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force in an upgrade of bilateral relations 

2023 The European Commission and the U.S. government sign a new data communication agreement aimed at resolving legal uncertainties that European and American companies face when transferring personal data 

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