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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
2017 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is placed under house arrest, as the military take control of the country. He steps down six days later, after 37 years of rule 
2017 A Leonardo da Vinci painting, Salvator Mundi, sells for US$450 million at Christie's in New York, a new record price for any work of art.
2018 Africa's quickest train between Casablanca and Tangier in Morocco at 320km (198 miles) inaugurated by King Mohammed VI and French President Emmanuel Macron.
2018 David Hockney's "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" sells for $90.3 million in New York, record for a living artist.
2018 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani confims more than 28000 of the country's military and police have been killed since 2015
2018 Art experts in England authenticate two bronzes of men riding panthers as Michelangelo 's only surviving bronze works.
2018 LeBron James passes Wilt Chamberlain for 5th on the NBA's career scoring list with 44 points for the LA Lakers in 126-117 victory over Portland Trail Blazers at the Staples Center, Los Angeles
2020 British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton clinches 4th straight and record equalling 7th F1 World Drivers C'ship by winning Turkish GP at Intercity Istanbul Park, Tuzla.
2020 US President Donald Trump tweets [Biden] "won because the election was rigged,†while still refusing to concede the election
2020 SpaceX Falcon 9 launches inaugural regular flight to International Space Station with four astronauts, three from NASA, one Japanese
2020 The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is signed by 15 Asia-Pacific countries to form the world's largest free-trade bloc, covering a third of the world's population.
2020 NASA and SpaceX launch the SpaceX Crew-1 mission from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A to the ISS, the inaugural operational flight of the Crew Dragon capsule.
2021 US President Joe Biden signs a 'once in a generation' $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law [1].
2023 Attempting to firm up their countries relations US President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping hold bi-lateral talks at Filoli Historic House and Garden, Woodside, California [1]
2025 Three US military strikes in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean sink three suspected drug smuggling vessels and kill eight crewmen; the 23rd, 24th, and 25th missions since September
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