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Wednesday, 24 June 2026
1987 American singer Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop," arrived in Japan at the start of his world tour 
1987 Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott and Costello Show), dies at 58
1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill.
1989 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York NY Board of Estimate
1990 Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill.
1990 The Major League umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games.
1991 Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia seizing drugs.
1991 Pamela Smart (HS teacher) are discovered guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband
1991 Police fire on pro-democracy protesters in Bamako, Mali, killing 30, in violence that leads up to the overthrow of dictator General Moussa Traore
1991 Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73
1992 England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final
1992 US Air New York to Cleveland crashes on take off at La Guardia, 27 die.
1993 Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS
1993 Cec Pepper, cricketer (NSW and Commonwealth XI leggie), dies.
1994 Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)
1994 South African Government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland
1994 Soyuz TM-21 lands
1994 Dan Hartman, US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42.
1995 Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, steps down following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist
1995 In Buenos Aires Argentina Victoria BC rower Silken Laumann 1965- tests positive for banned stimulant ephedrine at the Pan-American Games
1995 Peter Woods, newsreader, dies at 64
1996 Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International.
1996 STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit
1996 Claude Mauriac, writer, dies at 81.
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)
1999 RaiLink Ltd.takes over operation of the CN Coronado, Bonnyville, and Lac La Biche subdivisions, northeast of Edmonton. The line extends from St. Paul Junction, immediately north of Edmonton, to Boyle and northeast to Grande Centre and Elk Point. It also connects with RaiLink's existing Lakeland and Waterways line at Boyle.
2006 ETA declares a permanent ceasefire in their campaign for Basque independence from Spain.
2007 NATO troops launch two assaults in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, killing 38 Taliban terrorists. NATO suffers no casualties
2009 Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unre.
2012 Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education.
2012 The President of Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré, is ousted in a coup d'état after mutinous soldiers attack government offices
2013 37 people are killed and 200 are injured in a refugee camp fire in Ban Mae, Thailand.
2014 251 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Lake Albert, Uganda.
2017 Arctic records its lowest ever winter ice cover according to US National Snow and Ice Data Center, 5.5 million square miles.
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