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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1995 Congress party loses India national election. 
1995 Lara scores 139 in ODI vs Australia at Port-of-Spain
1995 Sprinter Melinda Gainsford is recorded as becoming the inaugural Australian to win a world sprint title in more than 30 years.
1995 World Ice Dance Championship in Birmingham UK won by Oksana Gritshuk and Evgeny Platov (Russia)
1995 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Radka Kovarikova and Rene Novotny
1995 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Chen Lu (China)
1995 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Elvis Stojko (Canada)
1996 Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy.
1996 Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine, dies at 92
1998 "Sound of Music", opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC.
2007 Alan Johnston, a BBC journalist disappears in Gaza City, Palestine. Van Halen is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2012 100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan.
2013 JOGMEC is recorded as becoming the inaugural to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits.
2014 8 people are killed, 70 are injured, and 2 buildings are leveled by a gas explosion in East Harlem, New York
2018 British Prime Minister Theresa May says Russia was "highly likely" to have poisoned a Russian spy and his daughter on March 4 with nerve agent.
2018 Plane crash of Bangladeshi carrier at Kathmandu airport results in the deaths of at least 49 after plane approaches runway from wrong end
2018 Research shows Chinese cites have decreased pollution by 32 percent on average in just four years
2018 Tens of thousands of farmers from Indian state Maharashtra end protests over loan waivers, prices and land rights after promises from state officials and walking 167km to Mumbai
2018 Civilian death toll in Eastern Ghouta passes 1000 in three weeks as Syrian government forces capture the town of Mesraba.
2018 Flight BS211 crashes in Nepal, killing 51 on board
2019 Theresa May 's British government suffers a second defeat on a Brexit deal with the EU, 391 votes to 242
2019 Cargo ship Grande America sinks after it caught fire on March 10 in the Bay of Biscay, approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) west of France, causing a 2200-tonne oil spill
2020 US President Trump bans travel with 26 European countries though not the UK due to coronavirus COVID-19 (UK and Ireland added day later).
2020 UK PM Boris Johnson says the UK is facing the “worst public health crisis for a generationâ€, up to 10000 people may already be infected with coronavirus COVID-19
2020 Global stock markets crash due to continued concerns over COVID-19 and the U.S. travel ban on the Schengen Area. The DJIA goes into free fall, closing at over −2300 points, the worst losses for the index since 1987
2021 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi imposes new COVID restrictions warning of a new wave as cases again exceed 25000 a day
2023 95th Academy Awards: "Everything Everywhere All at Once" best film, best director Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Michelle Yeoh second woman of color to win best actress, Brendan Fraser best actor [1].
2023 Half a million Israeli's protest plans by Benjamin Netanyahu 's government to overhaul the country’s judicial system for tenth week in a row [1]
2023 In this year, PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Scottie Scheffler is recorded as becoming third golfer, after Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, to hold Masters and Players titles at same time; claims by 5 from England's Tyrrell Hatton.
2025 "Zootopia 2" is recorded as becoming the quickest PG-rated film to reach $1 Billion at the box office worldwide [1]
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