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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
2007 In this year, South Lake Tahoe - A wildfire starts eventually destroying 254 homes in the area. 
2007 The refurbished Millennium Dome, now called The O2, reopens in London
2012 Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood is recorded as becoming President of Egypt
2012 Shenzhou 9, a Chinese spacecraft carrying three Chinese astronauts, including the inaugural-ever female one, docked manually with an orbiting module Tiangong 1, inaugural time as the country, making them as the third country, after the United States and Russia, to successfully perform the mission.
2012 Lonesome George, the last known individual of the Pinta Island Tortoise subspecies, dies at a Galapagos National Park, thus making the subspecies extinct.
2013 The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Boston Bruins to win the NHL Stanly Cup Finals.
2014 In this year, Sidney Crosby claims the Hart Memorial Trophy and the Ted Lindsay Award for the 2014 NHL season.
2017 UN states Yemen cholera epidemic reached 200000 cases, with 1300 deaths. Worst cholera outbreak anywhere in the world
2017 World record for highest altitude football match ever played at 18799ft on Mount Kilimanjaro by women's international team.
2018 Women drive for the inaugural time in Saudi Arabia after ban is lifted.
2018 In this year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims second term with president's AK Party winning 42% parliamentary votes
2018 Britain's Prince William begins a five-day tour of the Middle East visiting Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories
2018 Saudi Arabia allows women to drive
2019 US President Donald Trump imposes sanctions on Iran, targeted at Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in response to the shooting down of a US drone
2020 NY Governor Andrew Cuomo announces people arriving from nine states hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic will have to isolate for two weeks
2021 Surfside condominium collapse: A portion of the Champlain South Towers condominium building collapses in Surfside, Florida, United States, leaving 98 people dead. One survivor was pulled from the wreckage while 35 others were evacuated from the uncollapsed section of the building.
2023 Wagner Group mercenaries led by Yevgeny Prigozhin rebel against Vladimir Putin ’s government, march towards Moscow, only a last minute deal by Aleksander Lukashenko gets them to stand down and move to Belarus [1].
2024 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange reaches deal with the US; pleading guilty to criminal charges but allowed to go free, after five years in a UK prison [1].
2024 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves the United Kingdom after being freed from prison in a plea deal with the United States. He returns to his native Australia two days later.
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