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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1989 Congressman Lukins are discovered guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl. 
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile and Guam
1989 NY State Legislature passes Staten Island seccession bill jul051054 A minor star in the constellation Taurus explodes July 5 in a supernova that is visible by daylight for 23 days and remains visible at night for another 633 days, an event recorded by pictographs in China and in the Western Hemisphere
1992 Doug Delauder, entertainer, dies.
1993 George "Spanky" McFarland, child actor (Our Gang), dies at age 65
1994 Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51
1995 Barney Simon, theatre director/writer, dies at 63
1996 Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76
1999 Southern Rails Cooperative (Red Coat Road and Rail) takes over operation of the 71.5 mile CP line from Pangman to Assiniboia in Saskatchewan.
2005 Spain joins Belgium and the Netherlands in permitting same-sex marriage.
2007 A calendar blue moon occurred in most of the Eastern Hemisphere.
2007 A Jeep Cherokee drove into the entrance of the main terminal of Glasgow International Airport in an apparent terrorist incident, resulting in a petrol-driven fire.[19]
2007 A parliamentary election was held in Papua New Guinea
2007 The FIFA U-20 World Cup 2007 soccer tournament takes place in Canada.
2007 The Hawaii Superferry arrives in Honolulu after a 7600 mile journey from Mobile, Alabama
2009 Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off e coa of Moroni, Comoros killing 152 people and leaving 1 survivor
2012 30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths
2013 30 people are killed after a fuel truck explodes in Kampala, Uganda
2014 Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is convicted of indecent assault in London, England
2017 Germany votes to legalize same-sex marriage in a snap vote.
2018 FIFA World Cup: Kylian Mbappé (19) is recorded as becoming only 2nd teenager (Pelé 1st 1958) to score twice in a world cup match as France eliminate Argentina 4-3 in Kazan
2018 March of the Flowers in Managua, Nicaragua, commemorating youth killed under government crackdown turns violent with 1 person killed and eight injured
2018 Two members of the public confirmed poisoned by Novichok nerve, a women later dies, in Wiltshire, England.
2019 The Killers headline the Gastonbury Music festival with Kylie Minogue playing the Pyramid stage 14 years after cancer forced her to cancel.
2019 Brooklyn Nets load up on elite NBA talent on inaugural day of free agency; sign Kevin Durant from Golden State, Kyrie Irving from Boston and DeAndre Jordan from NY Knicks.
2019 During a trilateral gathering at the Panmunjom Truce Village between South Korean President Moon Jae-in, North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un and United States President Donald Trump, Trump is recorded as becoming the inaugural sitting U.S. president to cross the Korean Demilitarized Zone and enter North Korea. Trump and Kim also agree to restart stalled denuclearization negotiations.
2020 FC Barcelona's Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi scores his 700th career goal - a cheeky Panenka penalty - in a 2-2 draw against Atlético Madrid.
2020 China passes the controversial Hong Kong national security law, allowing China to crack down on opposition to Beijing at home or abroad
2021 Pennsylvania Supreme overturns comedian Bill Cosby 's sexual assault conviction, ruling that the prosecutor who brought the case was bound by his predecessorââ¬â¢s agreement not to charge Cosby in return for Cosby's testimony in a related civil suit; Cosby immediately released from prison.
2023 Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is barred from running for office for eight years by the country's Supreme Electoral Court after he is are discovered guilty of abusing his power [1].
2023 The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to end MINUSMA, its peacekeeping mission in Mali.July 3 - Indian oil refiners start payments for Russian oil imports in Chinese yuan as an alternative to the US dollar due to increasing sanctions against Russia.
2025 PostNord, the Danish postal service, formally ends letter deliveries entirely, shifting exclusively to packages; the government agency was established in 1624 [1].
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