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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1991 Joan Caulfield, actress (My Favorite Husband), dies of cancer at 69 
1992 Peter Allen, entertainer (Legs Diamond), dies of aids at 48
1994 Jack Harkness, rose grower, dies at 75.
1995 Arthur John Howard, actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso), dies at 85
1996 Maitland Mackie, farmer, dies at 84
2006 The inaugural Kazakh space satellite "KazSat" is launched.
2007 Nine Charleston, South Carolina firefighters are killed by a roof collapse while battling a furniture store fire
2007 Three people are injured and one dead in a shooting near Flinders St in Melbourne
2012 15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq
2013 31 people are killed and 60 are injured by two suicide bombings in al-Qahira, Baghdad.
2014 Ian McKellen is awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University, becoming a Doctor of Letters.
2017 French President Emmanuel Macron 's party La République en Marche and allies win a majority in 2nd round French legislative elections.
2017 Pakistan defeat India to win cricket's Champions Trophy at the Oval in London by 180 runs, Fakhar Zaman scores 114 runs.
2017 In this year, 117th US Golf Open: Brooks Koepka claims his 1st major with a 16-under par 272 round at Erin Hills, Wisconsin
2017 Rare magnitude-four earthquake leads to a tsunami to hit Nuugaatsiaq in northwestern Greenland.
2017 Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) fire six surface-to-surface mid-range ballistic missile from domestic bases targeting ISIL forces in the Syrian Deir ez-Zor Governorate in response to the terrorist attacks in Tehran earlier that month.
2018 President Trump orders US military to set up sixth branch of the military - a space force
2018 Ferry sinks on Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia, with 193 suspected dead
2019 The U.S. sends an additional 1000 troops to the Middle East as tensions build with Iran.
2020 US Supreme Court rules the Obama -era Dreamers Program (DACA), enabling undocumented migrant children ability to study and work, can stay
2023 In this year, US Open Men's Golf, LA CC: American outsider Wyndham Clark claims his inaugural major and $3.6m as he beats Irishman Rory McIlroy by a stroke.
2023 Titan submersible implosion: All five crew members of Titan, a deep-sea submersible exploring the wreck of the Titanic, are killed following a catastrophic implosion of the vessel.
2024 Russian President Vladimir Putin is greeted by Kim Jong-un on his arrival in North Korea, his inaugural visit in 24 years [1].
2025 27th and 28th US military strikes in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean sink two suspected drug smuggling vessels and kill five, bringing total deaths in the program to over 100
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