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Saturday, 07 February 2026
1990 On the Minahassa Peninsula a 7.4 quake resulted in at least 3 people killed and 25 people injured. More than 1140 houses damaged in the Bolaang-Gorontalo area. 
1990 Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87
1991 Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike.
1992 Florence Randall, model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at 54 of cancer.
1993 In Peru a 6.3 earthquake centered centered about 70 kilometers northeast of Lima, killed six people.
1993 Arthur P Smith, US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76
1994 Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32.
1995 Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies
1996 Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner, dies at 62
1999 NATO launches its most active day of airstrikes in its assault on Yugoslavia,
2005 Five people die in ethnic clashes in Iran's south-west Khuzestan province.
2006 Festivities and memorials across the Bay Area mark the 100th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
2007 32 Chinese steel workers are burnt to death in the Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster
2012 The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples begins burning artworks after cultural institution budget cuts
2013 27 people are killed and 65 are injured in a cafe bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
2014 12 Nepalese climbers are killed by an avalanche on Mt Everest
2017 British Prime Minister Teresa May announces she will seek a "snap" election.
2018 Protests begin in Managua, Nicaragua, over proposed changes to social security, protesters beaten by suspected pro-government gangs
2018 “Black Panther†is the inaugural film shown at a commercial cinema in 35 years in Saudi Arabia as cinemas are reopened
2018 In Nicaragua, protests begin against announced reforms of Social Security which would decrease retirement pension benefits. An estimated number of 34 protesters are killed by police
2018 Cinemas open in Saudi Arabia for the inaugural time since 1983 with the American film Black Panther chosen as the inaugural to be screened.
2018 NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is launched
2019 The full 448-page report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States Presidential Election (the Mueller Report) is released in redacted form
2019 NepaliSat-1 is launched. It is Nepal's inaugural ever research satellite to be sent into space
2020 44 suspected Boko Haram members are are discovered dead, apparently due to poisoning, inside a prison in N'Djamena, Chad.
2021 Twelve football clubs, including three from La Liga and leading clubs from the Premier League and Serie A, agree to join a new breakaway European Super League, prompting international condemnation. Two days later, following major protests from supporters, other clubs and politicians, Manchester City withdraw from the league; this prompts all the remaining Premier League clubs and three others to do the same.
2021 The 2021 Cape Verdean parliamentary election takes place.
2025 27th and 28th US military strikes in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean sink two suspected drug smuggling vessels and kill five, bringing total deaths in the program to over 100
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