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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450) 
1995 In this year, Finland Social-Democratic Party claims parliamentary election.
1995 In this year, Laura Davis claims LPGA Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
1995 Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers
1995 NBA New York Knicks beat New York Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47).
1995 Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3 4.08).
1995 In this year, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain starts a historic state visit to post-apartheid South Africa
1995 Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (Literature), dies at 85
1995 Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3 :4.08).
1996 Defeated in the federal election, former Australian prime minister Paul Keating announces his retirement
1996 In Southern Xinjiang, China a 6.3 earthquake killed at least twenty-four people, 128 injured and more than 15314 houses destroyed in the Artux-Jiashi area.
1996 Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marrage.
1996 Christopher John Magenis Headington, musician, dies at 65.
1997 Major League Baseball announces 5 year/$50M deal with Pepsi
1997 Police fired tear gas and warning shots in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, to quell a protest against the government's plan to use foreign mercenaries to crush a separatist rebellion
1997 Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments
1997 Willem De Kooning, artists (Abstract), dies of Alzheimer at 92.
1998 "Ah Wilderness!", opens at Vivian Beaumont theater
2005 A mine blast occurs at the Xishui coal mine in Shuozhou, China, and rocks nearby Kangjiayao coal mine, killing up to 59
2005 A suspected suicide bomber in Doha, Qatar, results in the deaths of one person and injures about 12 others
2005 A time bomb explodes in a Muslim shrine in Quetta, southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 29 people and wounding 40
2011 Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: In light of continuing attacks on Libyan rebels by forces in support of leader Muammar Gaddafi,[20] military intervention authorized under UNSCR 1973 begins as French fighter jets make reconnaissance flights over Libya.
2012 Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second best selling hamburger chain.
2013 27 people are killed and 14 are injured in a bus crash in Maharashtra, India
2014 Russia captures the Ukrainian naval base in Sevastopol
2018 Mississippi signs into law the US's strictest abortion laws, no termination after 15 weeks
2018 World's last male northern white rhino, 45 year old Sudan, dies in Kenya
2018 The world's last male northern white rhinoceros dies in Kenya, making the subspecies functionally extinct.
2019 Nursultan Nazarbayev steps down as President of Kazakhstan after 29 years in office and appoints Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as acting president. Astana is renamed Nur-Sultan the following day in his honor.
2019 American Karen Uhlenbeck is the inaugural woman to win the Abel Prize for outstanding contributions to mathematics
2021 North Korea severs diplomatic ties with Malaysia due to its citizens being extradited to the United States to face money-laundering charges. Malaysian authorities order North Korean officials to leave the country in 48 hours.
2023 In a deal brokered by the Swiss government, investment bank UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse for CHF 3 billion (US$3.2 billion) in an all-stock deal.
2024 Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announces her organization Yield Giving is giving away $640 million to 361 nonprofits after an open call for applications [1]
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