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Sunday, 15 February 2026
1985 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB. 
1985 Sam Gillman, actor (Sam-Shane), dies at 70.
1988 In this year, Barry Sanders claims the Heisman Trophy.
1989 George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev end summit in Malta
1989 George Bush and : Mikhail Gorbachev end summit in Malta.
1990 Gavin Reed, actor (Body Beneath), dies at 59
1991 Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion.
1991 Muslim Shiites release US hostage Alan Steen
1991 White House Chief of Staff John Sununu steps down
1991 Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies.
1992 Harry Ellerbe, actor (House of Usher, Magnetic Monster), dies at 91.
1993 Lewis Thomas, biologist, dies of cancer at 80.
1994 AIDS activist Elizabeth Glaser, infected with HIV from a blood transfusion, dies in Santa Monica, CA, at age 47.
1994 Dolf Verspoor, literary/translator (M Nijhoff prize 1958), dies at 77.
1995 Jimmy Jewel, comedian, dies at 82.
1996 Babrak Karmal, PM of Afghanistan (1980-81), dies.
1997 Marian Kratochwil, artist, dies at 91
2005 Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway, grandson of King Harald V of Norway is born.
2006 Ed Stelmach is elected the new Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, Canada, after the second ballot results, and second choice votes for Ted Morton have been added up. Ed is recorded as becoming the Premier-designate of Alberta.
2006 Explosive demolition of Germany's tallest chimney at former Westerholt Power Station
2007 14 - United Nations Climate Change Conference at Nusa Dua in Bali, Indonesia.
2007 Kevin Rudd is sworn in as the 26th Prime Minister of Australia, by Governor General Major-General Michael Jeffery
2012 Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, reaches the end of our solar system and enters interstellar space
2014 Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, steps down.
2017 inaugural pizza party in space held by astronauts of the International Space Station
2018 David Attenborough warns collapse of civilisation and the natural world on the horizon at UN climate summit in Poland.
2018 Dutch court in Arnhem rejects man's request to legally be recognised 20 years younger.
2018 7-year old Ryan of Ryan Toysreview is the year's highest-paid YouTube star earning $22 million.
2018 Ballon d'Or: Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modrić claims; inaugural time since 2007 that either Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't win award; Norwegian striker Ada Hegerberg is inaugural women's winner
2018 NASA reports the arrival of the OSIRIS-REx probe at Bennu, the agency's inaugural sample-return mission to an asteroid.
2019 Spotify say Drake the most streamed star of the 2010s with 28 billion streams, Ed Sheeran 's "Shape Of You" most streamed track with 2.4 billion streams.
2019 Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announce they are stepping down from roles at parent company Alphabet, Sundar Pichai to become head of both.
2019 70th anniversary of NATO marked by gathering in London of world leaders and reception by Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
2019 World leaders discussing US President Donald Trump in unflattering terms at NATO reception caught on camera and goes viral
