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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
2017 Crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman vows to return Saudi Arabia to moderate Islam after announcing 500bn independent economic zone. 
2017 Albert Einstein 's "Theory of Happiness", written as a note for a bellboy instead of a tip in Tokyo in 1922 sells for $1.56 million
2018 Pipe bombs sent to prominent US Democrats including the Obamas, Clintons, John Brennan and CNN, but safely defused.
2018 Largest jackpot in US history at 1.6 billion won by one person in Southern Carolina.
2018 Kenyan marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge named UN Person of the Year for setting a new marathon world record and for his work with AIDS/HIV in Kenya.
2018 Scientists confirm East Island in Hawaii, half a mile long, has been wiped out after contact with Hurricane Walaka
2018 EU directive bans single-use plastics by 2021
2019 Remains of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco removed from mausoleum in Valley of the Fallen and reburied in private family vault in Madrid.
2021 Michael Jordan 's 1984 Nike Air Ships sell for $1.472 million at Sotheby's, a new record for sneakers at auction [1]
2021 The 2021 Uzbek presidential election is held.[220]
2023 In this year, American pop singer Britney Spears releases her memoir "The Woman in Me" [1]
2023 Former lawyer to Donald Trump Jenna Ellis is the fourth person to plead guilty and accept a plea deal in the Georgia election interference case [1]
2024 American rapper Lil Durk arrested on federal charges of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire as he attempts to flee the US [1]
2024 The inaugural case of the Kwango province disease outbreak is reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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