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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif. 
1990 Eddie Quillan, actor (Brigadoon, Summer Magic), dies of cancer at 83
1991 Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape.
1991 The South African government admits funding the Zulus to undermine the ANC.
1992 Bert Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater), dies
1993 Elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83.
1994 Christian-Jaque, [Christian Maudet], French director (Nana), dies.
1995 Dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen and I Can't Get Up), dies at 87.
2005 President Bush nominates Appeals Court Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to the United States Supreme Court, following the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.
2007 Ol Doinyo Lengai mountain erupts, bringing a stop to the daily week long tremors experienced in Nairobi and Northern Tanzania
2007 Prathiba Patil is elected as the inaugural female President of India.
2007 Russia expels four British embassy staff in a tit-for-tat response over Britain's expulsion of four of Russia's diplomats. Russia also refuses to cooperate with Britain over the war on terror
2007 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 14000 for the inaugural time in history.
2013 20 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Diyala, Iraq.
2017 US scientists calculate total amount plastic ever produced - 8.3 million tonnes, equal to weight of 1 billion elephants.
2017 US Senator John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer
2017 "Depacito" by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee is recorded as becoming the most streamed song ever, played 4.6 billion times
2017 Archaeological dig in Kakadu National Park extends Aboriginal peoples time in Australia to 65000 to 80000 years ago
2017 In this year, BBC publishes salaries of its top-earning journalists and presenters, two-thirds male, Chris Evans highest at over £2.2 million.
2018 Israel's parliament passes controversial "nation state" law giving only Jews self-determination, relegating Arabic to "special status".
2018 inaugural commercial flight, the "bird of peace" between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 20 years lands in Asmara, Eritrea, reuniting families
2018 Largest intact sarcophagus of its kind ever are discovered (2000 years old) opened in Alexandria, contains 3 skeletons, not a curse as feared
2018 Airbus Beluga XL, painted to look like the whale, makes its inaugural flight, landing in Toulouse-Blagnac, France More >>
2018 Russian ship Dmitri Donskoii, with possible cargo of gold coins is discovered in waters between South Korea and Japan where it sunk in 1905.
2018 Brazilian soccer international goalkeeper Alisson transfers from Roma to Liverpool for a world record shot blocker's fee of £66.8m.
2018 Duck boot sinks in Table Rock Lake, Missouri, drowning 17 people.
2019 The Iranian Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps captures British tanker Stena Impero and temporarily seizes British-operated and Liberian-flagged tanker Mesdar in the Persian Gulf. The British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, warns there will be "serious consequences" if Iran does not release the tanker
2020 In this year, World Formula 1 drivers champion Lewis Hamilton claims a record 8th Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest to equal Michael Schumacher's record of claims at a single circuit (French GP).
2020 Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says 25 million Iranians already infected with COVID-19, 35 million at risk (official figure just 269440).
2020 Flooding of the Brahmaputra River results in the deaths of 189 and leaves 4 million homeless in India and Nepal.
2021 Blue Origin successfully conducts its inaugural human test flight, with a reusable New Shepard rocket delivering four crew members into space: its founder Jeff Bezos, Bezos' brother Mark, 18-year-old Oliver Daemen (who is recorded as becoming the youngest person to go into space), and 82-year-old aviator and Mercury 13 member Wally Funk (who is recorded as becoming the oldest person to go into space).
2021 Leftist schoolteacher Pedro Castillo is confirmed as President of Peru over a month after the 2021 Peruvian general election.
2021 Day of Hajj: Women are permitted to attend without a male guardian (mehrem) provided they go in a trustworthy group.
2023 Typhoon Doksuri forms in the eastern Pacific Ocean, going on to kill 137 people in Southeast Asia
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