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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1981 Yasuji Kiyose, composer, dies at 81. 
1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of the English Channel.
1982 Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7".
1982 Bashir Gemayel, falangist Lebanon's president-elect, killed by a bomb.
1983 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner.
1984 Janet Gaynor, actress (Sunrise), dies at 77 from a traffic accident.
1985 Eli Hosen is born
1988 Louis Quinn, actor (Unholy Rollers), dies at 73 of cancer
1989 Calgary Flames become inaugural NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
1989 Edwin McLeod, cricketer (one Test for NZ), dies.
1990 Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer, dies.
1991 Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii) crowned Miss America 1992
1991 Julie Bovasso, actress (Saturday Night Fever), dies at 61 of cancer.
1992 UN troops land in Somalia, Africa, to stabalise the country and provide aid.
1992 David Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer) at 76
1996 York - Durham Heritage Railway commences operation over the former CN line between Uxbridge and Stouffville, Ont
2005 September 16 - Largest UN World Summit in history, held in New York City
2007 The SELENE spacecraft launches. JAXA has called the mission, "the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program."
2007 Viktor Zubkov is approved as the new Prime Minister of Russia after a vote in the Duma.
2012 21 people are killed after a ferry sank in Indonesia
2014 The United States defeats Serbia 129-92 to win the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.
2017 Fire at a religious school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, results in the deaths of 23
2017 Bodleian Library reveals earliest evidence of the zero symbol in 3rd or 4th Century Bakhshali (Pakistan) manuscript, through carbon dating.
2017 Two Islamic State terrorist attacks in Dhiqar province, Southern Iraq, kill at least 60
2017 Selena Gomez reveals she had a kidney transplant, because of lupus, donated by her friend Francia Rais
2017 19 people die when a boat capsizes on Yamun River in Uttar Pradesh, India.
2018 Hurricane Florence makes landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, as a category 1 hurricane
2018 Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort pleads guilty to conspiracy charges and agrees to cooperative with Government investigatuions.
2019 2019 Abqaiq–Khurais attack: Two Saudi Aramco oil refineries in Abqaiq and Khurais, Saudi Arabia, are attacked by drones, resulting in fires. Houthi militants claim responsibility, saying that they used ten drones for the attack. Aramco's oil exports and production are disrupted by five million barrels a day, close to half of the entire Saudi Arabian oil exports
2020 The Royal Astronomical Society announces the detection of phosphine in Venus' atmosphere, which is known to be a strong predictor for the presence of microbial life.
2020 The inaugural discovery of the perfectly preserved remains of a cave bear, believed to be 22000 to 39500 years old (Late Pleistocene), is made in Lyakhovsky Islands, Siberia in the thawing permafrost.
2021 North Korea demonstrates two short-range ballistic missiles that land just outside Japan's territorial waters; and then only hours later South Korea demonstrates its inaugural submarine-launched ballistic missile
2021 The inaugural season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, the third tier of European club football, kicks off with Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv winning 4–1 against Armenian club FC Alashkert.
2023 The European Central Bank (ECB) raises eurozone interest rates to an all-time high of 4%, amid ongoing inflationary pressures across the continent.
