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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1993 Absolutely Nobody, [David Powers], Wash lt-gov candidate, dies at 37 
1994 Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64
1995 Agha Saadat Ali, cricketer (8 not out in 1 inn for Pak 1956), dies
1996 Gordon Scarrott, engineer, dies at 80.
1999 "Pinocchio" is recorded as becoming the inaugural animated classic to make its way to DVD
1999 Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
2000 An Ilyushin-18 aircraft ploughs into a mountain in ex-Soviet Georgia, killing more than 80 people
2005 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for Israel to be "wiped off the map" at "World Without Zionism" conference in Tehran, Iran, and condemns peace process.
2005 The Chicago White Sox beat the Houston Astros in 4 games to win their inaugural World Series since 1917
2005 The U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 200.
2007 Apple Inc. launch the sixth major release of their Mac OS X operating system entitled, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2010 Repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, have killed at least 240 people and forced hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate.
2012 64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes
2013 St Louis Cardinals defeat Boston Red Sox to lead the MLB 2013 World Series 2-1
2014 Dilma Rousseff is re-elected President of Brazil.
2017 US President Donald Trump declares the opioid crisis a public health emergency.
2017 Cremation ceremony for King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand held in Bangkok, a year after his death
2017 National Party of New Zealand are discovered guilty of breaching copyright of rapper Eminem 's publisher and must pay $413000 for use of the sing “Eminem Esqueâ€.
2017 Explosion and fire at a fireworks factory in Tangerang, Indonesia results in the deaths of 47 and injuries dozens.
2017 Oldest-known tsunami victim revealed by sediment discovered in 6000 year-old skull by scientists near Aitape, Papua New Guinea.
2017 Jacinda Ardern is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, becoming the world’s youngest female head of government.
2018 Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc arrested for sending 14 pipe bombs to prominent US Democrats.
2018 Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor announces she has converted to Islam.
2018 Longest Baseball World Series game by both innings and time; LA Dodgers beat Boston Red Sox, 3-2 in the 18th inning (7 hours, 20 mins) in Game 3 at Dodger Stadium with Max Muncy walk-off homer.
2018 Rhine River in drought with lowest levels since 1920s forces German government to release oil reserves after barge shipments disrupted.
2019 Raid by US Special Forces results in the deaths of ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria
2019 The Amazon Catholic bishops synod proposes that married men be ordained as priests, which would reverse the Church's centuries-old discipline of celibacy.
2020 Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says the country will is recorded as becoming carbon neutral by 2050
2020 NASA confirms the existence of molecular water on the sunlit side of the Moon, near Clavius crater, at concentrations of up to 412 parts per million
2024 In this year, Georgian parliamentary election: Amid suspicions of interference, ruling pro-Russian party Georgian Dream claims a majority
2025 In this year, 2025 Argentine legislative election: Incumbent President Javier Milei's party La Libertad Avanza claims the election with over 40% of the votes
2025 Timor-Leste is recorded as becoming the 11th member state of ASEAN, being the inaugural enlargement of ASEAN since Cambodia's entry in 1999 and comprising all countries of Southeast Asia
2025 El Fashir massacre: Mass murder is reported during which an estimated 2500 or more civilians have been executed by the Rapid Support Forces in the city of El Fashir, Sudan
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