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Wednesday, 11 February 2026
1990 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC 
1990 Iraq announces it will release all 3300 Soviet hostages.
1990 Edward Binns, US actor (12 Angry One), dies of heart attack at 74.
1991 Muslim Shiites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6« years)
1991 The Judds final concert (Nashville).
1992 US Troops land in Somalia
1993 Frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68
1994 Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73.
1995 Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham and Diane Zamora, at 16
1996 Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83
1997 David Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72.
2005 25000 people in Hong Kong protest for democracy.
2007 In this year, The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) releases the results of the PISA 2006 survey.
2012 29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha, Syria.
2012 Typhoon Bopha in Philippines killing 1901 people.
2014 The United Nations warns that the world is on course for the warmest year since records began
2017 US Supreme Court allows President Trump's travel ban to come into effect for 6 mostly Muslim countries
2017 US President Trump scales back Utah National Parks - Bears Ears National Monument (85%), Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (50%).
2017 New York's Metropolitan Opera suspends conductor James Levine after allegations of sexual misconduct
2017 New York Giants fire coach Bob McAdoo and manager Jerry Reese
2017 Thomas fire begins and spreads to city of Ventura, California
2018 Ownership group Seattle Hockey Partners led by billionaire businessman Davis Bonderman is unanimously granted an NHL license by the Board of Governors; to start play 2020-21 season at KeyArena.
2018 Theresa May's UK government suffers three parliamentary defeats in one day, also are discovered in contempt of parliament for failing to publish report in full on Brexit.
2018 French President Emmanuel Macron drops controversial rise in fuel tax after three weeks of mass protests
2018 Attempts to establish mob council in Sicily thwarted when 46 members of the mafia arrested including Settimio Mineo
2018 In this year, Scottish artist Charlotte Prodger claims the 2018 Turner Prize with film shot on her iPhone
2018 inaugural successful birth resulting from uterus transplant from a deceased donor in São Paulo, Brazil
2018 French couture house Chanel ends its use of fur and exotic skins following bans by other companies.
2018 Native Americans had just one migration from Siberia to the New World, at most 23000 years ago, in research published in "Nature" and "Science".
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 65 million worldwide, with the global death toll exceeding 1.5 million. Figures reflect that, in the last week, over 10000 people worldwide have died on average every day, with one death every nine seconds. According to the World Health Organization, COVID-19 had caused more deaths in 2020 than tuberculosis in 2019, as well as four times the number of deaths than malaria.
2020 Somali Civil War: The United States announces its withdrawal from the conflict over the next month.
2024 French political crisis: Michel Barnier is recorded as becoming the inaugural prime minister of France to lose a motion of no-confidence since Georges Pompidou in 1962.
2024 Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, is shot and killed by a lone gunman in Midtown Manhattan, sparking debate and criticism of the health insurance industry in the United States
2025 22nd known lethal US military strike in international waters of suspected drug smuggling vessel results in the deaths of four in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
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