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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1980 The war between Iran and Iraq begins. 
1980 USS Eisenhower and Midway continued contingency operations in the northern Arabian Sea as war erupted between Iraq and Iran.
1983 NASA launches Galaxy-B
1983 Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"
1985 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes to become Heavyweight Boxing Champ.
1985 Rock and country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill
1985 Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73.
1987 Christopher Stryker, entertainer, dies at 27.
1988 South Korean coaches attack the New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, the Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in.
1989 After Hurricane Hugo, Sailors and Marines provide assistance to Charleston, SC, through 10 October
1989 Irving Berlin, composer (God Bless America), dies at 101.
1990 Saudi Arabia expells many Jordanian and Yemeni envoys
1991 Calif University makes the Dead Sea Scrolls public.
1991 Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies.
1993 Margaret MacDonald, maid to Queen Elizabeth, dies at 89.
1994 Forest Cowles Bud Forrest Sagendorf, cartoonist, dies at 79.
1995 Albert Goodwin, historian, dies at 89
1996 Dorothy Lamour, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio), dies at 81
1997 Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk, dies at 76.
2006 A Transrapid Maglev train crashes into a maintenance vehicle on a test track in Germany, killing 23 and injuring 10; it is the inaugural recorded fatal accident involving a Maglev.
2012 7 pedestrians are killed by a drunk driver who hit a bus stop at 200km an hour in Moscow
2013 78 people are killed in a church suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan.
2014 NASA's MAVEN space probe successfully arrives in orbit over Mars.
2017 US President Donald Trump withdraws invitation to the White House for NBA champions Golden State Warriors after Stephen Curry says he doesn't want to attend
2018 Singer Rihanna is appointed as an ambassador for Barbados.
2018 Four gunmen open fire on Revolutionary Guard soldiers at a parade in Ahvaz, Iran, killing 25 including civilians.
2018 An attack at a military parade results in the deaths of at least 29 people in Ahvaz, Iran.
2019 71st Emmy Awards: "Fleabag", " Game of Thrones ", "Chernobyl", Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jharrel Jerome win
2019 "Howdy, Modi!" US President Donald Trump holds a mass rally for Indian PM Narendra Modi in Houston, Texas
2019 Nearly three weeks after Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on The Bahamas, the official death toll stands at 52 and 1300 are reported missing. Rescuers report the widespread stench of rotting bodies in the rubble.
2020 PM Boris Johnson announces that the UK has reached a 'perilous turning point' in the pandemic as he announces new restrictions
2020 President Xi Jinping of China pledges at the UN that the country will adopt stronger climate targets including becoming carbon neutral by 2060
2023 US President Joe Biden announces a military aid package for Ukraine while meeting with the country's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House [1]
