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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 millionkm. 
1986 Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a flatter, one-stick model
1987 Actor, singer, dancer, comedian, broadcaster and American entertainment icon, Danny Kaye, died in Los Angeles at the age of 74
1987 Wayne Gretzky scores 1500th NHL point
1987 [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74.
1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire
1988 Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74.
1989 Johan Fleerackers, Flemish linguist, dies at 57.
1990 16th People's Choice Awards.
1990 Lithuania declares it's Independence.
1990 Lithuania declares its independence from the USSR.
1991 Janet Jackson signs $40M three album deal with Virgin records
1991 In this year, John Smith, amateur wrestler, claims James E Sullivan Award.
1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1
1992 In this year, Environment Canada starts issuing weekly ozone warnings
1992 David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41.
1993 Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44
1994 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as President of Chile.
1994 Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69.
1995 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament
1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US
1995 Carel Birnie, are discovered Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69.
1996 America Online agreed to use Netscape as the primary Web browser offered to its subscribers in a deal signed this day.
1996 Chris Harris scores 130 in losing New Zealand side vs Australia, World Cup
1996 Mark Waugh scores 110 vs New Zealand for his third century of the World Cup.
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space.
1997 Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II
1997 San Francisco Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch.
2005 In the UK, the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act 205 was finally given Royal Assent after one of the longest ever sittings by the House of Lords.
2005 Three people, including a judge, are murdered in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia; the main suspect, Brian Nichols, surrenders to police the next day.2006 Michelle Bachelet is sworn in as the inaugural female President of Chile.
2006 Slobodan Miloševic is are discovered dead in his cell in the UN war crimes tribunal's detention centre, located in the Scheveningen section of The Hague
2006 Michelle Bachelet is sworn in as the inaugural female President of Chile.
2009 Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany
2011 A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15840 and leaving another 3926 missing. Tsunami warnings are issued in 50 countries and territories. Emergencies are declared at four nuclear power plants affected by the quake.
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