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Wednesday, 11 February 2026
1987 Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum, Actor (Mr Green Jeans), dies at 77 
1989 Republic Day in Sierra Leone.
1989 Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82
1990 Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time.
1990 Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 52.
1991 Battle of the Ages-Heavyweight champ Evander Hollyfield beats 42 year old George Foreman
1991 Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990
1992 Balki and Mary Ann wed on "Perfect Strangers".
1995 A massive bomb explosion destroys much of a federal building in Oklahoma City, USA.
2005 Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave
2006 Han Myeong Sook is recorded as becoming the inaugural female Prime Minister of South Korea.
2007 US and allied air forces conduct massive exercises over South Korea with over 500 planes.[8].
2011 Fidel Castro steps down from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title
2012 Levon Helm, American rock musician, dies from throat cancer at 71
2017 Fox News confirms they would be letting go of Bill O'Reilly after allegations of sexual harassment.
2018 Miguel Diaz-Canel is elected Cuba's new president after former president Raúl Castro steps down.
2018 Senator Tammy Duckworth is the inaugural parent to bring a baby into the US Senate a day after the Senate votes to allow babies on the chamber's floor.
2018 Miguel DÃaz-Canel is sworn in as President of Cuba, marking the inaugural time since 1959 that Cuba has had a president other than Fidel or Raúl Castro.
2018 Swaziland changes its English name, officially becoming the Kingdom of Eswatini.
2020 Together At Home concert for coronavirus COVID-19 aid curated by Lady Gaga and streamed worldwide.
2020 Vietnam condemns China's prior decision to establish administrative districts in the disputed Paracel and Spratly Islands as a violation of its sovereignty
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] Unrest breaks out in Paris, Berlin and Vladikavkaz as opposition to COVID-19 lockdowns continue
2021 NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, part of the Mars 2020 mission, performs the inaugural powered flight on another planet in history.
2021 Raúl Castro steps down as inaugural Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, ending more than 62 years of rule by the Castro brothers in Cuba.[70].
2023 At least 90 people are killed and another 322 injured in a crowd crush during a Ramadan charity event in Sanaa, Yemen.
2024 Israel conducts airstrikes against Iran, in response to Iran's missile and drone attack on Israel earlier on April 13.
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