Page 12: Historical Events In March - 01
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 

1984 Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69 

1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center 

1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter 

1985 Eugene List, US concert pianist, dies at 66. 

1987 In this year, Jane Geddes claims LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open. 

1988 Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA. 

1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran 

1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile. 

1988 Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1050th NHL assist 

1988 Jean Le Poulain, actor (Divine), dies at 63. 

1989 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981 

1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion 

1989 Julianne Phillips and Bruce Springsteen divorce. 

1989 Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host, dies at 64. 

1990 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as President of Uruguay 

1991 US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens. 

1993 Authorities in Waco TX negotiate with Branch Davidians 

1993 George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of New York Yankees 

1993 New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks. 

1994 36th Grammy Awards I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton win 

1994 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as President of Finland 

1994 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution 

1994 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton win 

1994 plague epidemic in Surat in India killing 52 people. 

1995 37th Grammy Awards All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelphia, Sheryl Crow. 

1995 Belgium ends military conscript 

1995 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland 

1995 Part of Houston begins using new area code 261 

1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, steps down. 

1995 37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelphia, Sheryl Crow 

1996 New toll-free 888 area code introduced. 

1996 Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington and Shap England 

1996 United Kingdom BSE outbreak in Worldwide killing 231 people 

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