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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1996 MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way. 
1996 U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid safely transfers to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay
1996 Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga, singer, dies at 66.
1996 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls claims.
1997 69th Academy Awards "The English Patient", Tom Cruise and Frances McDormand win
1997 Australian parliament overturns world's inaugural and only euthanasia law
1997 69th Academy Awards: "The English Patient", Tom Cruise and Frances McDormand win.
2000 Two 18-year-old boys are arrested in Britain on charges of breaking into e-commerce Internet sites in five countries, stealing information on more than 26000 credit card accounts and posting some of it on the Web.
2005 The Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan reaches its climax with the overthrow of president Askar Akayev.
2012 African Union deploys 5000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony
2013 17 soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber at a military checkpoint in North Waziristan, Pakistan
2014 Ukraine withdraws its forces from the Crimea
2017 US President Donald Trump and Republican party forced to pull their attempt to repeal Obamacare after internal opposition
2018 Tens of thousands attend 'March for Our Lives' rallies held in Washington D.C. and around the world to protest gun violence
2018 American conducts it inaugural ever drone strike against Qaeda militants in southern Libya
2018 Hundreds of protesters shut down special meeting at Sacramento City Hall investigating police shooting of Stephon Clark
2018 Australian batsman Cameron Bancroft is caught on camera rubbing match ball with an object during 3rd Cricket Test in Cape Town, resulting in an infamous ball tampering scandal
2018 In over 900 cities internationally, people participate in demonstrations against gun violence and mass shootings, calling for stronger gun control in the "March for Our Lives".
2019 The 2019 Thai general election takes place, for all 500 seats in the House of Representatives.
2019 A four-page summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report into U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign is published by the U.S. Attorney General William Barr. It concludes that there was no collusion with Russia - the basis of the investigation - but on the issue of obstruction of justice states: "While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him".
2020 Indian PM Narendra Modi orders a 21 day lockdown for world's second most populous country of 1.3 billion people to deal with coronavirus COVID-19
2020 Japan's Prime Minister ShinzÅ Abe announces postponement of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games until summer of 2021 because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] India goes into lockdown to contain COVID-19. The total number of people in the world facing some form of pandemic-related movement restriction now exceeds 2.6 billion, a third of the global population
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reports that the domestically transmitted epidemic was "basically blocked" and it is now under control
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The International Olympic Committee and Japan suspend the 2020 Summer Olympics until 2021. On March 30, the Summer Olympics are rescheduled from July 23 to August 8, 2021
2024 Senegalese presidential election: Bassirou Diomaye Faye is elected president after his party and its former candidate Ousmane Sonko were disqualified
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