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Saturday, 21 February 2026
1992 American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50% 
1992 Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver and Dallas
1992 Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood.
1992 In the Netherlands and Germany a 5.5 earthquake occurred. One person died of a heart attack at Bonn, Germany. Twenty people injured and some buildings damaged (VIII) at Roermond, Netherlands and 25 people injured and some buildings damaged (VII) at Heinsberg, Germany
1992 Brian Oulton, dies at 84.
1993 Barry Karas, dies of leukemia at 49.
1994 Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist, dies at 92
1995 Edward Firth Henderson, arabist, dies at 77
1996 Denis Sargan, econometrician, dies at 71.
1997 Ann Craft, researcher/writer, dies at 53
2001 At 8 20 p.m. MDT. A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck 50 km to the northeast of Dawson Creek, BC and about 100 km north of Grand Prairie, Alberta
2001 At 8:20 p.m. MDT. A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck 50 km to the northeast of Dawson Creek, BC and about 100 km north of Grand Prairie, Alberta
2010 A 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurs in Qinghai, China, killing at least 2000 and injuring more than 10000
2012 North Korean long range rocket testing ends in failure after the rocket broke up after launch
2012 Kwangmy.ngs.ng-3, a North Korean Earth observation satellite, explodes shortly after launch. The United States and other countries had called the impending launch a violation of United Nations Security Council formally claims.[15] The launch was planned to mark the centenary of Birth of Kim Il-sung, the founder of the republic.
2013 8 people are killed after a bomb explodes on a bus in Peshawar, Pakistan.
2014 In this year, Kenyan Wilson Kipsang claims the London Marathon.
2017 In the 2017 Nangarhar airstrike the U.S. drops the GBU-43/B MOAB, the world's largest non-nuclear weapon, at an ISIL base in Afghanistan
2020 Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli sings a special Easter concert in the deserted Milan cathedral accompanied by an organist
2020 NY Governor Andrew Cuomo says “I believe the worst is over if we continue to be smart,†about the COVID-19 pandemic in New York as death toll passes 10000.
2021 Voice actor Hank Azaria who is white apologizes for voicing Indian character Apu on "The Simpsons" for 30 years.
2021 Japan's government approves the dumping of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean over the course of 30 years, with full support of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The decision is opposed by China, South Korea, and Taiwan.
2021 The Janssen COVID-19 vaccine is paused over causing rare blood clots.[60].
2024 Iran launches retaliatory strikes against Israel after an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus earlier in the month.
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