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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1986 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8889 km 
1986 Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies.
1987 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, results in the deaths of 100.
1987 A British ferry sinks off the Belgian port of Zeebrugg, killing 189.
1987 Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die.
1987 In the Colombia - Ecuador region a 7.0 earthquake killed approximately 1000 people, 4000 missing, 20000 homeless, extensive damage, landslides and ground cracks in Napo Province and in the Quito-Tulcan area, Ecuador.
1987 Ecuador earthquakes in Ecuador killing 5000 people.
1988 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers
1988 In the Gulf of Alaska a 7.7 earthquake was felt in parts of Alaska, but little damage on land however an estimated 5000 dollars damage caused to the ships Exxon North Slope, Exxon Boston and Exxon New Orleans.
1988 Konstantin Iliev, composer, dies at 63.
1989 Harry Andrews, actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77.
1990 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2404 miles in 1 08 17.
1990 The Soviet government allows its citizens to own factories and hire workers.
1990 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2404 miles in 1:08:17.
1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated; The war is over"
1992 Elvia Allman, actress (Night at Earl Carroll's), dies of pneumonia
1993 Cyril Collard, French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35
1994 United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy.
1994 Leighton Noble, singer/Bandleader, dies at 81
1995 9th American Comedy Awards Rodney Dangerfield
1995 American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets.
1995 9th American Comedy Awards: Rodney Dangerfield
1996 10th American Comedy Awards.
1996 Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 vs Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lamar
1999 Sheik Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, emir of Bahrain, dies at age 65.
2007 Mega Millions sets a new world record for the highest lottery jackpot of US $370 million
2012 9000 residents are evacuated from Wagga Wagga, Australia, as the Murrimbidgee River threatens to overflow.
2013 Syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah, their inaugural major city
2014 Crimea's parliament votes unanimously to make the Crimea a part of Russia
2017 US President Donald Trump signs his second executive order barring travelers from 6 mostly-Muslim countries for 90 days but leaves out Iraq.
2017 In this year, Wikileaks publishes "Vault 7" CIA documents detailing its hacking and surveillance techniques
2018 "Highest overdose death rates ever recorded in the US", 142000 overdoses in 2016-17 period according to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2018 Sri Lanka imposes inaugural nationwide state of emergency since civil war after unrest between Sinhalese and Muslim areas in Kandy District.
2018 World's oldest message in a bottle are discovered in Western Australia, thrown from German ship Paula 132 years ago (12 June 1886)
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