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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1991 Dimitrios I, patriarch/primus interparis orthodox Christians, dies. 
1993 President Yeltsin declares a State of Emergency in Moscow
1993 Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83.
1994 Faith Davis, oldest triplets (Charity and Hope survive), dies at 95
1995 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67.
1996 Andrey Lukanov, PM of Bulgaria (1990), assassinated at 58
1999 China and Russia hail 50 years of diplomatic ties with the two neighbours' inaugural joint naval exercises
2005 20 people are killed in a shipwreck in Lake George, NY.
2006 Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-yr-old milk-truck driver, results in the deaths of five female students at an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania before shooting himself
2006 Per Westerberg takes office as Speaker of the Riksdag in Sweden
2007 The second Inter-Korean Summit begins. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il meet in Pyongyang
2012 20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria
2014 15 people are killed after a gun powder plant explodes in Gorni Lom, Bulgaria
2017 US scientists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young awarded Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for work on the body clock
2018 US inaugural Lady Melania Trump arrives in Ghana to begin a four-nation tour of Africa
2018 Saudi American journalist Jamal Khashoggi enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen again prompting a diplomatic crisis
2018 Nobel prize in Physics awarded to Arthur Ashkin (optical tweezers), Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland ( both for laser beams)
2018 Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, triggering a diplomatic crisis for Saudi Arabia.
2019 Prince Harry , Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex sue British newspaper The Mail on Sunday claiming it published her private letter
2019 25 soldiers are killed and 60 missing following attacks on two army camps in Boulkessi and Mondoro, Mali.
2020 US President Donald Trump announces via twitter that he and inaugural Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19, President hospitalized later that day.
2023 US Postal Service issues a commemorative stamp honoring late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg [1]
2024 New Justice Department indictment against Donald Trump alleges he tried to subvert the 2020 transfer of power, taking into account Supreme Courts' immunity ruling for presidents [1].
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