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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1982 Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig 
1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1982 Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychotherapist, dies.
1983 Walter O'Keefe, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 82
1984 Barbra Striesand records "Here We Are at Last".
1984 Carl Foreman, producer, dies of cancer at 69
1986 Laurie Fishlock, cricketer (4 Tests for England), dies
1987 Glen Hall, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1965), commits suicide
1989 Canada updates coins with a new portrait of Queen Elizabeth
1989 Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson marry for the 2nd time.
1989 On Hawaii, a 6.1 quake (actually 2 events about 5 seconds apart) results in five people injured slightly, 5 homes destroyed and about 100 homes damaged in the Puna District. Landslides occurred in several places and blocked a road at Honomu
1990 Europe begins to study ways into financially helping the USSR.
1991 Carmine Coppola, composer/conductor (Godfather II), dies at 80
1992 Geert Vissers, Dutch TV host (Gay Dating Show), dies.
1993 Catherine Leno, mother of Tonight Show host Jay, dies of cancer at 82
1994 A "Bob" den Doolaard, author (Inn with the horseshoe), dies at 93.
1996 Veronica Guerin, journalist, dies at 36.
2005 Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, daughter of Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands is born
2013 20 people are killed after a rescue helicopter crashes in Uttarakhand.
2014 Luis Suárez is expelled from the 2014 FIFA World Cup following his biting incident.
2017 America's Cup: Emirates Team New Zealand defeat Oracle Team USA 7-1 in Bermuda, Peter Burling (26) youngest ever helmsman
2017 Theresa May 's UK Conservative minority party strike deal to govern with Northern Ireland's DUP with guarantee of 1 billion funding
2017 Brazilian state prosecutors file corruption charges against President Michel Temer
2017 Helicopter with rogue police pilot attacks Venezuelan Supreme Court in Caracas.
2018 US Supreme Court upholds President Trump 's travel ban against mostly Muslim countries.
2018 Quriyat, Oman, registers highest "low" temperature for a day ever recorded of 42.5 degrees.
2018 Sudanese court overturns death sentence for teenager who killed the husband after he raped her
2018 India is named the most dangerous country to be a women because of sexual violence and slave labour by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
2018 inaugural high level talks between Ethiopian and Eritrean officials in 20 years begins in Addis Ababa.
2018 Hello Kitty bullet train unveiled by the West Japan Railway
2018 Polio outbreak confirmed in New Guinea by WHO, 18 years after it was declared free of the disease
2019 Japanese animation film "Spirited Away" by Hayao Miyazaki is released in China and tops the box office, 18 years after its initial release.
2023 Russian leader Vladimir Putin vows to bring leaders of the Wagner Group rebellion to justice, saying they wanted "to see Russia choked in bloody strife" [1].
2024 Outgoing Dutch PM Mark Rutte is appointed as the next NATO Secretary General [1].
