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Monday, 23 February 2026
1972 Bill Berns, commentator (Television Screen Magazine), dies at 53 
1973 USSR launches Mars 7.
1973 Henry McCullough and Denny Seiwell quit Wings.
1973 Charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08), dies at 88
1974 Gerald Ford is recorded as becoming the 39th president of the United States.
1974 Richard Nixon steps down presidency, VP Gerald Ford is recorded as becoming 38th pres.
1975 1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7.
1975 Dimitri D Shostakovitch, composer (Sun Over Motherland), dies at 68
1976 USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth.
1976 Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 mins, WI v Glamorgan.
1976 Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet/novelist, dies at 65.
1977 Edward Chapman, actor (Promoter, Rembrandt), dies at 75.
1978 James G Cozzens, US writer (Guard of Honor, Pulitzer), dies at 74.
1979 Allan Frank, actor (Charade Quiz), dies at 64
1980 Elliott Nugent, actor (Romance), dies
1982 Aleksandr A Alekseyev, Russian director, dies.
1986 Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist, dies at 77
1987 Kees de Galan, Dutch economist, dies at 55.
1988 Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to LA Kings for $15-$20 millions
1988 Alan Napier, (Alfred the Butler-Batman), dies at 85
1990 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
1990 Dorothy Appleby, actress (Small Town Boy, Paradise Express), dies
1991 Corrie Hartong, dance pioneer, dies.
1992 25th Olympic Summer games close in Barcelona, Spain.
1992 Christopher Todd, [Todd Wangberg], dies of AIDS at 30.
1993 Mohamed M Tabet, commissar of Casablanca, raped 518, executed at 54
2005 Space Shuttle Discovery returns to Edwards Air Force Base at 0814 EDT, completing STS-114, "Return to Flight.".
2007 The Dow Jones Industrial Average loses 387.18 points, its largest single-day drop since feb 27.
2012 The death toll from the Philippines' floods rise to 70
2013 8 people are killed and 24 are injured after gunmen open fire on a Sunni mosque in Quetta, Pakistan.
2017 Giant inflatable chicken resembling US President Donald Trump placed outside US White House as a political protest.
2017 North Korea says it plans to fire rockets on US territory Guam in continuing escalation of tension between it and the US.
2017 Nepal's parliament bans menstruation huts (comes into effect August 2018).
2018 Saudi-led air coalition strikes a school bus in Sada Province, Yemen, killing 43, many of them children.
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