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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Jan 22 In Northern Territory, Australia a 6.9 earthequake occured with damage in the Tennant Creek area. Felt over two-thirds of Australia. 
Jan 22 Two earthquakes, one registering 7.0 on the Richter scale, cause 20km fault near Tennant Creek, northern Australia
Jan 23 45th Golden Globes Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas
Jan 23 62nd Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (61 76).
Jan 23 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, complete inaugural nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
Jan 23 Sandinista missiles downed a cargo plane that was dropping U.S.-financed supplies to Contra rebels in southeastern Nicaragua. Four crewmen were killed.
Jan 24 Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
Jan 24 Ben Johnson named the Associated Press (AP) male athlete of the year, the inaugural Canadian track athlete so honoured
Jan 24 Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C), dies at 91
Jan 24 inaugural WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan claims
Jan 25 15th American Music Award Anita Baker, Paul Simon and Whitney Houston.
Jan 25 Colleen Moore, actress (These Girls Won't Talk), dies at 87.
Jan 25 In this year, George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab".
Jan 25 Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname.
Jan 25 Vice President Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in the Iran-Contra affair.
Jan 26 "Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater New York City NY for 4000+ performances
Jan 26 Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor.
Jan 26 CIBC buys 65% of Wood Gundy for $190 million, mostly in shares.
Jan 27 Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court
Jan 28 Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional.
Jan 29 Bantcho Bantchevsky US opera singer, commits suicide.
Jan 29 Bantcho Bantchevsky, US opera singer, commits suicide.
Jan 29 Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15
Jan 29 Rogier van Otterloo Dutch composer/conductor, dies at 46
Jan 29 Talks break down between Sandinistas and Contras.
Jan 29 United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36 hours 54 minutes 15 seconds
Jan 30 Cornelia D "Corry" Spark, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 85
Jan 30 Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs N Tvl)
Jan 31 Barge sinks near Anacortes WA, spills 70000 gallons of oil.
Feb 01 Heather O'Rourke, (Poltergeist) star, dies of intestinal ailment at 12.
Feb 02 David Boon's 6th Test Cricket century, 184 vs England at Sydney.
Feb 04 Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges.
Feb 05 Arizona House of Representatives vote to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham
Feb 05 Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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