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Tuesday, 17 February 2026
1981 Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer, dies at 85 
1982 Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies.
1983 Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed at 50
1984 Australia's federal budget speech is televised live from Canberra for the inaugural time.
1984 Widespread arrests on the eve of South African coloured elections.
1985 Near Coast of Northern Peru a 6.3 quake injured at least 100 people, 60 homes destroyed and damage to other buildings in the Chimbote area.
1985 Premier Neville Wran ratifies legislation in NSW to make AIDS a notifiable disease.
1986 A report on the Chernobyl disaster blames 'human error'
1986 In this year, Lake Nios Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 1746.
1986 Lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon killing 1746 people
1987 Clayton Lonetree, inaugural marine court-martialed for spying, convicted.
1987 Karl Bruck, entertainer, dies
1988 Cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
1988 Hans Gunther Adler, German writer, dies at 78.
1989 Fifty-one people drown in the River Thames, London when a dredger rams the pleasure cruiser Marchioness
1989 Soviet Union reveals deadliest weapon in its air force arsenal, needle-nosed bomber that NATO calls the Blackjack
1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune.
1990 Gang of convicts from Siberian labour camp overpower guards aboard Aeroflot passenger flight, hijack plane to Pakistan and seek political asylum.
1990 George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya.
1991 Attempted coup against Mikial Gorbachev stopped by Boris Yeltsin.
1991 Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days
1991 Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101.
1992 Lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), dies after illness at 74
1994 Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL), dies of breast cancer at 35.
1995 NSW Police Royal Commission key witness Trevor Haken accuses 35 high ranking officers and others of corruption
1995 Anatole Fistoulari, conductor, dies at 88
1996 Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69.
1997 Death of Norris Bradbury, American physicist who led the team charged with assembling the components for the world's inaugural atomic bomb explosion
1997 Misael Pastrana Borrero, Pres of Colombia (1970-74), dies
2000 British troops are rushed on to Belfast streets after two men are killed in a violent feud between Protestant guerrilla groups.
2005 British Rock Band The Rolling Stones kicks off their a Bigger Bang tour with a show in Fenway Park, Boston
2007 STS-118 lands at the Kennedy Space Center, completing Space Shuttle Endeavour's 19th flight.
2012 20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus
2013 37 people are killed and 16 are injured in a bus crash near Chin Swee Temple, Malaysia.
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