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Monday, 16 February 2026
1985 Rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62. 
1986 Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV and finds nothing
1986 Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930)
1987 Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77
1988 Barbra Striesand records "You'll Never Know".
1989 100000 chinese students gather for quiet protest in Tiananmen Square.
1989 James Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64
1990 "Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue" shown on all 4 TV networks
1990 National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards.
1990 Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies.
1991 Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74.
1992 "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway
1992 Robert Harris, murderer, executed in Calif's gas chamber at 39.
1993 Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82
1994 Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93.
1995 Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93
1996 A H Kardar, cricketer (3 Tests for India and 23 for Pak 1946-58), dies.
1997 Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies.
2005 A bus crash in Vietnam's Central Highlands results in the deaths of thirty Vietnamese war veterans.
2005 A gunfight on the edge of the Saudi city of Mecca results in the deaths of two militants and two members of the security forces.2007 Presidential elections are held in Nigeria
2007 Presidential elections are held in Nigeria.
2012 Two trains in Sloterdijk, Netherlands, injure 117 people in a head on collision
2013 185 people are killed in a conflict between Islamic extremists and the Nigerian military.
2014 In this year, Meb Keflezighi claims the 2014 Boston Marathon.
2017 Taliban attack army base at Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, killing more than 100.
2018 Oakland A's left hander Sean Manaea no-hits the Boston Red Sox
2019 Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a Extinction Rebellion protest in London amid city-wide climate protests where Waterloo Bridge was occupied over four days.
2019 A series of bomb attacks occur at eight locations in Sri Lanka, including three churches, four hotels and one housing complex in Colombo, on Easter Sunday, leaving 259 people dead and over 500 injured. This is the inaugural major terrorist attack in the country since the Sri Lankan Civil War ended in 2009
2019 Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky is elected President of Ukraine in a runoff election. Zelensky previously portrayed a fictional Ukrainian president in the television series Servant of the People.
2020 Mozambique police say 52 male villagers were killed by Islamist militants earlier this month in Muidumbe District, Cabo Delgado Province, after they refused to join their ranks.
2021 Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the West not to cross a "red line" in his state of the union address, amid massing of 100000 Russian troops on Ukraine border
2021 COVID-19 pandemic: With global case numbers approaching a second peak, India reports 315000 infections within 24 hours, the highest one-day tally recorded anywhere in the world to date
2023 The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, representing a majority of the global Anglican population, reject the leadership of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby as the head of global Anglicanism over his support for same-sex marriage
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