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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1976 Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days 
1978 Muhammad Ali beats WBA heavyweight champion Leon Spinks.
1978 Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft builder, dies at 80.
1979 Tommy Leonetti, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50.
1980 Bill Evans, US jazz pianist, dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51
1981 Sara Haden, actress (A Family Affair), dies at 83.
1982 inaugural issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc.
1982 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut
1982 Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran
1983 LeRoy Prinz, choreographer, dies at 88
1984 Jack Ikin, cricketer (England opener 1946-55), dies.
1986 Virginia Gregg, actress (Little Women), dies at 69.
1987 Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75
1988 Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics.
1989 Harry Cave, cricketer (New Zealand captain 1955-56), dies.
1990 Florida lottery goes over $100000000.
1990 France announce it will send 4000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
1990 G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA), dies.
1991 Allan Sobek, dancer, dies.
1992 Walter B Jones, (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92), dies at 79
1993 Frits Noske, musicologist (Tie Musikwerk), dies at 72
1994 Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78.
1995 Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator, dies at 83.
2006 Spinach contaminated with E. coli results in the deaths of one person and poisons over 100 others in 20 states of the United States.
2007 Over 3000 Taiwanese Americans and their supporters rallied in front of UN in New York City to demonstrate the dedication that UN should accept Taiwan. At the same time, over 300000 Taiwanese people rallied in Taiwan to make the same plea.
2012 Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s.
2013 21 people are killed in a series of bombings in Baghdad and Shia provinces, Iraq.
2014 Ewa Kopacz is recorded as becoming Prime Minister of Poland.
2017 Terrorist bomb only partially explodes in attack at Parsons Green tube station, London, injuring 29.
2017 Cassini-Huygens ends its 13-year mission by plunging into Saturn, becoming the inaugural spacecraft to enter the planet's atmosphere
2018 Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong), category 5 strength, makes landfall in Cagayan province, Philippines, killing at least 100
2018 Archaeologists find the oldest-known brewery and remains of 13000-year-old beer in Haifa cave, Israel, belonging to nomadic Natufian people.
2018 Swimmer killed by shark at Newcomb Hollow Beach, inaugural fatal shark attack in Massachusetts in 80 years.
2018 Russian boxer Gennady Golovkin (38-1-1, 34 KOs) loses his inaugural pro fight in record 20th title defence as well as undisputed world middleweight crown when outpointed by Mexican Canelo Ãlvarez (50-1-2, 34 KOs) in Las Vegas.
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