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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9851 kph at White Sands, NM 
1983 In this year, Lech Walesa claims the Nobel Peace Prize
1984 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched.
1984 Leonard Rossiter, actor (2001, Water), dies of a heart attack at 57.
1985 In this year, Grambling's Eddie Robinson claims record 324th football game.
1986 London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms
1986 Hall B Wallis, US movie production (Barefoot in Park), dies at 87
1988 Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism.
1989 The exiled Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1990 Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obscenity (Mapplethorpe photos).
1990 Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58.
1991 Actor Ted Shackelford (Knots Landing) weds Annett Wolf
1992 Cornelis Berkhouwer, Dutch MP (VVD), dies.
1993 Jane Nigh, actress (Big Town, Blue Blood, Rawhide), dies at about 67.
1995 Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader, dies at 85
1996 Catherine Elizabeth Pennington, personal assistant, dies at 77
1997 Andrew Keir, actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt), dies at 71.
2005 Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith charged with refusing to serve in the Iraq war.
2012 Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12000 striking workers in South Africa.
2013 Wladimir Klitschko defeats Alexander Povetkin to retain his WBA Heavyweight Championship.
2014 South Sydney Rabbitohs win the 2014 NRL Grand Final
2017 Spanish constitutional court suspends Catalan parliament to prevent declaration of independence.
2017 Iraqi forces claim victory and control over Islamic State's last urban stronghold Hawija, Northern Iraq
2017 In this year, "The New York Times" publishes investigation into sexual harassment behaviour by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
2018 Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad for "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war".
2018 US unemployment figures hit lowest level since 1969 - 3.7% according to Department of Labor.
2018 Most expensive whisky ever sold at auction for $1.1 million, the Macallan Valerio Adami 1926, in Edinburgh, Scotland
2019 2019 Iraqi protests: 91 people are killed by police during a week of demonstrations in Iraq
2020 Massive protests breakout in Kyrgyzstan following accusations that the October 2020 parliamentary election was "unfair".
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 35 million worldwide. The news coincides with the World Health Organization estimating that total worldwide cases may be around 760 million - roughly a tenth of the global population.
2021 Roscosmos launches the Soyuz MS-19 mission, which carries an Expedition 66 crewmember and two Channel One Russia personnel to the International Space Station. The two Channel One crew will perform principal photography on the film Vyzov aboard the station.[209][210].
