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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1987 Van Gogh's paining the "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction 
1987 L T Coggeshall, medical scientist (Sec of HEW 1956-58), dies at 86
1988 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million years) reported in Science.
1992 Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko, cosmonaut, dies at 50
1993 Entombment at the Australian War Memorial of the remains of an Unknown Australian Soldier from a World War One cemetery in France
1993 Erskine Hawkins, US trumpeter/composer (After Hours), dies at 79
1994 Elizabeth Lefanu Maconchy, Engl composer (My Dark Heart), dies at 87.
1995 Charles Scribner Jr, publisher, dies at 74
1996 Helen Rosenthal, Teacher/health administrator, dies at 47.
1997 Quebec Gatineau Railway takes over operation of the former CP Trois Rivieres and Lachute subdivisions between Quebec City and Hull.
2004 Yasser Arafat, co-founder and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, revolutionary and nobel prize winner dies in Paris at 75
2006 Edinburgh Place Ferry Pier, Hong Kong, completed the last journey of its 49-year operation.
2007 Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, India killing 15000 people.
2010 The G-20 summit is held in Seoul, South Korea. Korea is recorded as becoming the inaugural non-G8 nation to host a G-20 leaders summit
2012 12 people are killed by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Burma
2013 4 people are killed and 8 are injured after a building catches fire in Mumbai, India.
2014 The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank in April is are discovered guilty of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years in prison
2017 Largest Singles Day sales ever - Alibaba says its sales alone were $25.3 billion
2017 Nationalist march in Warsaw, Poland, draws 60000, to coincide with country's independence day.
2018 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Prague, Czech Republic: in a final denuded of both countries' top players Kateřina Siniaková beats American Sofia Kenin 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 to clinch a 3-0 win for the home side.
2018 On centenary of WWI Armistice Day French President Macron urges world to reject Nationalism in speech to under Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
2018 Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba sets new record for their Singles Day sale, $1 billion in 85 seconds, $30.8bn in 24 hours
2018 Democratic Republic of Congo announces its worst-ever outbreak of Ebola with 198 deaths.
2018 Many nations around the world, particularly ones in Europe and the Commonwealth, along with the United States, celebrate the ending of the World War I centenary with Armistice Day, Veterans Day, and Remembrance Day ceremonies, speeches, parades, and memorials.
2019 A transit of Mercury occurs
2019 Hong Kong protests: A traffic officer shot a youth in Sai Wan Ho during city-wide strike. A man was also set on fire by protesters on the same day
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The Sputnik V vaccine is proven to be 92% effective against COVID-19 according to interim results
2021 SpaceX launches the Crew-3 mission, carrying four Expedition 66 crew members to the International Space Station.[230]
2023 Over 300000 attend pro-Palestinian march in London, calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, with Mayor Sadiq Khan accusing Home Secretary Sue Braverman of stirring up violence by right-wing protestors [1]
2024 COP29 is held in Baku, Azerbaijan
2025 Bulgaria's government steps down following weeks of mass protests against its economic policies and corruption [1]
