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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1996 Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer, dies at 91 
1996 Wrestlemania XII: Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title.
1997 "Daytime to Remember" a series showing old soaps premieres on ABC-TV.
1997 Pioneer 10, ends its mission.
1997 Edwin Alberian, TV celebrity (Clarabell), dies at 76.
1999 Australian aid workers Steve Pratt and Peter Wallace are arrested by Serb authorities
2007 Sydney, Australia, turns off its lights for 1 hour between 7:30pm and 8:30pm as a political statement for Global Climate Change
2013 14 Boko Haram suspects are killed in a Nigerian Army raid.
2017 Mudslides caused by heavy rains sweep through Mocoa, Colombia killing more than 200
2019 Elton John joins George Clooney 's call to boycott hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei after Brunei plans new anti-gay laws to make homosexual sex punishable by death.
2019 Taiwan scrambles its fighter aircraft after two Chinese jets crossed a maritime border between the two nations. Just the day before, Japan had similarly scrambled its jets when the Chinese flew between two Japanese islands, Miyako and Okinawa
2021 New York state legalizes recreational use of marijuana in legislation signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo (sales not legal for 18 months).
2024 Bulgaria and Romania become members of the Schengen Area through sea and air routes
2024 In this year, Turkish local elections: CHP claims 37.8% of the vote, marking its inaugural victory in a popular vote since 1977 and the inaugural nationwide defeat for the AKP.
2024 Sixteen people were killed in an Israeli attack in Damascus on April 1
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