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Wednesday, 11 February 2026
1979 Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer, dies at 72. 
1980 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador.
1981 Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco opens at 11 30 AM
1981 Hershy Kay, composer, dies at 62
1981 Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco opens at 11:30 AM
1982 A 61 year old American dentist, Dr Barney Clark, is the inaugural human to receive an artificial heart.
1982 inaugural permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with the Jarvic-7 heart
1982 David Blue, rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at 41
1983 Atholl Mckinnon, cricketer (S African lefty spinner in 8 Tests), dies.
1985 Alex Courtney, actor (Sword of Justice), dies
1986 Desi Arnaz, actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies at 69 of cancer.
1988 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
1988 STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission).
1988 UN votes 151-2 (Isr and US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Britain abstains
1988 Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra).
1989 V.P. Singh is sworn in as prime minister of India
1990 inaugural parliamentary election in newly reunified Germany.
1990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit.
1990 Aaron Copeland, composer (Fanfare for Common Man), dies at 90
1991 Muslim Shiites release US hostage Joseph Cicip
1992 Gary Mascaro, choreographer, dies at 43.
1993 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot to death in Medellin.
1993 Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombian drug baron, shot to death at 44.
1994 Donald John Urquhart, librarian, dies at 85.
1995 Francis Joseph Quinn, academic, dies at 90
1996 Penelope Jessel, politcal activist, dies at 76.
2005 Kenneth Boyd is recorded as becoming the 100th person to be executed in the USA since the re-introduction of capital punishment in 1976.
2006 In Rome, about two million people, led by opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi, demonstrate against Romano Prodi's government
2006 Stephane Dion is elected the new Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, on the fourth ballot
2007 In this year, United Russia claims parliamentary elections in Russia, increasing their majority with 60% of the votes
2010 NASA announces the discovery of the bacterium GFAJ-1, which may be able to partially replace phosphorous with arsenic in some of its biomolecules.
2012 9 people are killed after 30 cars are trapped in Sasago Tunnel, Japan.
2014 In this year, Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial Intelligence could be a "threat to mankind" and spell the end of the human race.
2017 Egyptian lawyer Nabih al-Wahsh sentenced to 3 years in prison for saying women wearing ripped jeans should be raped.
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