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Saturday, 07 February 2026
1973 Louise Huff, actress (Sea Waif, Caprice, Disraeli), dies at 77. 
1974 Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66
1976 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, pres of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73.
1977 Sebastian Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair), dies at 59
1978 Tear gas used to quell riot by 150 prisoners in Sydney's Long Bay Jail who set fire to their cells.
1978 Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78
1979 Henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69.
1982 Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
1984 Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan and VP Bush
1984 Charles Whittenberg, composer, dies at 57
1985 Ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quickie of 30's), dies
1986 NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
1987 Madonna's "Who's "That Girl," single goes #1.
1988 Australia unveils inaugural platinum coin (Koala)
1988 NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee).
1989 The inaugural complete ring around Neptune discovered.
1990 Pres Bush calls up military reserves.
1990 Scores of angry smokers block street near Moscow's Red Square for hours to protest summer-long cigarette shortage.
1990 Merlin Marston, actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 45
1991 Boris Pugo, USSR minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide.
1993 Don Getz, US filmer (Playpoint).
1994 Canadian icebreaker Louis St-Laurent reaches the North Magnetic Pole
1994 Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine), dies at 80.
2005 A 4.1-kg (9-pound) meteorite crashes into the Dotito area of Zambezi Escarpment in Zimbabwe, leaving a 15-cm (6-inch) crater.
2006 Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 people, including 45 children.
2006 The ICM awards Grigori Perelman the Fields Medal for proving the Poincare conjecture, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems. Perelman refuses the medal.
2007 The Texas Rangers score thirty runs in one game, setting the modern (post-1900) MLB record for most runs by one team in a single game, in a 30-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
2012 47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war.
2013 14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq
2014 2nd Ebola death in Nigera, Africa’s most populated country
2017 India's highest court outlaws instant divorce for Muslim men (talaq, talaq, talaq).
2017 Missouri Governor Eric Greitens grants stay of execution for Marcellus Williams in light of possible new DNA eividence
2018 Longest ever bull market for Standard and Poor’s 500-stock index at 3453 days (using 19.9 percent decline in 1990 as the start, usually 20%).
2018 Discovery of a bone of a 90000 hybrid human, half Neanderthal, half Denisovan from Anuy River, Siberia published in "Nature".
