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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike. 
1989 Time and Warner Communications announce a planned merger to form the world's largest media and entertainment company.
1990 A 6.1 earthquake occurred in Pakistan at least 11 people killed, about 40 injured and many homes and buildings damaged in the Kalat area. Also felt at Quetta and Mastung
1990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space.
1991 Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of inaugural American Bank.
1991 In this year, Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British and 1 Italian POW.
1993 Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion.
1994 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit
1994 Toronto actor John Candy dies at 43 of a heart attack while filming Wagons East on location in Mexico
1995 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital.
1995 George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker.
1995 Michael Johnson runs world record 400 meter indoor (44.63 seconds).
1997 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU)
1997 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
1997 Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia).
1999 A military jury in North Carolina clears a Marine pilot of reckless endangerment charges when his jet severed a gondola cable in the Alps, sending 20 people to their deaths.
1999 Retired US Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, author of a 1973 decision legalizing abortion, dies in Arlington, VA, at age 90
2005 The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.
2005 United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.2006 The final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 receives no response.
2006 Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway was christened by Bishop Ole Christian Kvarme at the chapel inside The Royal Palace in Oslo.
2006 The final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 receives no response
2007 Parliamentary elections take place in Estonia and in Abkhazia
2009 e International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arre warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes again humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is e fir sitting head of ate to be indicted by e ICC since its eablishment in 2002
2012 Munitions dump explosions kill at least 250 people in the Republic of Congo.
2012 A series of explosions are reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, with at least 250 people dead
2013 40 Syrian soldiers are killed in an ambush in Western Iraq
2014 US President Obama announces 2015 budget.
2018 World's worst listeria outbreak suspected of killing 180 tracked to processed meat factory in Polokwane, South Africa.
2018 90th Academy Awards: Best Picture "The Shape of Water", Best Director Guillermo del Toro, Best Actor Gary Oldman, Best Actress France McDormand.
2018 In this year, Italian general election results in a hung parliament, populist Five Star Movement claims most votes
2018 Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal are poisoned by nerve agent in Salisbury, England
2018 In this year, Italian General Election has no clear winner, populist party 5-Star led by Luigi Di Maio claims most votes with 32%
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