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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1976 Luchino Visconti di Modrone, It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69 
1977 In this year, Australia claims cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
1978 RCMP charge Toronto Sun editor Peter Worthington and publisher Donald Creighton with violating Official Secrets Act; published information from secret report on Soviet espionage activities in Canada
1978 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day.
1978 George Dickinson, cricketer (8 wickets in 3 Tests for NZ), dies.
1979 World Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov USSR.
1979 Merv Inverarity, cricketer (father of John WA player 1925-40), dies.
1980 Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68.
1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador.
1982 Following the failure of Argentinean diplomatic efforts to reclaim the Falkland Islands from the British, an Argentine warship lands a party of "scrap dealers" on South Georgia Island, a dependency of the Falkland Islands British crown colony
1982 Hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador.
1983 9th People's Choice Awards.
1985 Brian Mulroney 1939- welcomes President Ronald Reagan to a Canada-US Summit meeting in the Chateau Frontenac; called the Shamrock Summit because of their common Irish ancestry and the date - St. Patrick's Day
1985 IBM surprised the computer industry by announcing the termination of its PC Jr., a watered-down version of its popular IBM PC.
1985 Near Coast of Central Chile a 6.6 earthquake caused one person died from a heart attack at Santiago
1985 Dattu Phadkar, cricketer (Indian all-rounder, 31 Tests 1947-58), dies.
1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
1986 Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49.
1987 In this year, IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 (but Windows is on the way)
1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan
1987 Torrential rains and mudslides in Tajikistan, Soviet Union, destroy dam, killing 19 people and leaving nine others missing.
1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
1988 Reg Sinfield, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1938), dies
1989 Dorothy Cudahy is inaugural female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
1989 Merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29
1990 Germaine Capucine, French actress and fashion model (Rendez-Vous de Juillet), dies at 59.
1991 Former Australian governor-general Sir John Kerr, who dismissed the Whitlam Labor government in 1975, dies in Sydney aged 76.
1991 Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St Patrick Day parade.
1991 New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70%
1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together; 9 of 15 Soviet representatives officially approve new union treaty
1992 18th People's Choice Awards Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire.
1992 In this year, De Klerk claims a white only referendum
1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina killing 29
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