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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1994 Courtney Love cleared of drug charges 
1994 Karl Francis Hettinger, onion Field survivor, dies at 59
1995 Lewis T Preston, banker, dies at 68.
1996 Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87.
1997 Alvy Moore, actor/producer (Mr Kimball-Green Acres), dies at 75
2005 In one of the largest insurgent attacks in Iraq to date, at least 60 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at a Kurdish police recruitment center in Irbil, northern Iraq.
2006 A new coalition government takes office in Israel; its four political parties hold 67 of the 120 seats in the Knesset.
2007 Executive Directive 51, which specifies the procedures for continuity of the federal government of the United States in the event of a "catastrophic emergency" signed by President George W. Bush.
2007 Tornado strikes Greensburg, Kansas, killing at least 12 and destroying about 90% of the town.
2010 Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso sells in New York for US$106.5 million, setting another new world record for a work of art sold at auction.
2012 14 decapitated bodies and 9 hung from a bridge are are discovered in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
2013 5 US soldiers are killed by a bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan
2014 Juan Carlos Varela is elected President of Panama.
2018 LA Angels 1st baseman Albert Pujols collects his 3000th MLB hit in a 5-0 win v Mariners in Seattle.
2018 California overtakes Great Britain to become the worlds fifth largest economy.
2019 Coronation of King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand.
2020 A team of British and Kenyan scientists announce the discovery of Microsporidia MB, a parasitic microbe in the Microsporidia fungi group that blocks mosquitos from carrying malaria, potentially paving the way for the control of malaria
2021 US President Joe Biden announces new goal of 160 million people, nearly of 70% of adults, vaccinated by July 4
2023 Actress and writer Carrie Fisher , best known as Princess Leia from the Star Wars films, is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame [1]
2023 Ed Sheeran are discovered not guilty of copying Marvin Gaye ’s ‘Let’s Get It On" for his 2014 single “Thinking Out Loud" by a Manhattan federal jury; copyright infringement suit was filed by the heirs of Gaye's co-writer Ed Townsend [1]
2023 A series of floods and landslides strikes villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in over 400 deaths
2024 Largest concert of Madonna 's career as she ends her "Celebration" world tour with a free concert in front of 1.6 million at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [1]
2025 22nd known lethal US military strike in international waters of suspected drug smuggling vessel results in the deaths of four in the eastern Pacific Ocean
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