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Thursday, 12 February 2026
1978 Edward Durrell Stone, US architect, dies at 76. 
1979 Kurt Kaszner actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65
1979 Kurt Kasznar, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65
1980 Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player, dies at 66
1981 NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed
1983 Minn Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo).
1984 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1985 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB.
1986 In this year, Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for the IBM
1986 William J Schroeder (world's longest-survivor with permanent artificial heart, dies after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump).
1986 Emilio Fernandez, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), dies at 82
1987 Ira C Eaker, commandant USAF in Europe (WW II), dies at 91
1988 Anatoli S Levchenko, cosmonaut (TM-4), dies of brain tumor at 47
1989 Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8.
1989 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern Airlines picket lines.
1990 President George Bush orders Operation Desert Shield.
1990 UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstentions Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq.
1990 Charles Arnt, actor (Double Exposure), dies of pancreatic cancer at 82
1991 Harry Reasoner newscaster (Host on 60 Minutes), dies at 68.
1997 Korean Airlines Flight 801 crashed on Guam.
2005 An ATR-72 heading from Italy to Tunisia crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, killing 16 of 39 on board.
2005 Death of Carlo Little, influential UK rock and roll drummer (b.1938)
2007 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrives in historic Palestianian town of Jericho, becoming the inaugural Prime Minister of Israel to visit the West Bank or Gaza Strip in over seven years. Olmert met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
2007 The Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery County, Utah collapses, trapping six miners
2011 A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38
2012 Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the inaugural time in a century.
2012 Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars
2013 18 people are killed and 55 are wounded by a car bomb explosion in Damascus, Syria
2017 Women's Euro 2017: The Netherlands defeat Denmark 4-2 in Enschede, The Netherlands.
2017 In this year, Women's British Golf Open: South Korea's In-Kyung Kim claims with a course record-equalling 64 at Kingsbarns, Scotland.
2018 South Sudan peace accord signed between South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar in Sudan attempting to end 5 years of civil war
2018 Saudi Arabia's state airline suspends direct flights to Toronto and expels ambassador after Canada calls for release of detained activists for civil and women's rights.
2018 Chicago police appeal for more help after 66 people shot in the city in one weekend
2018 PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi announces she will be stepping down
