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Sunday, 15 February 2026
1996 Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant, dies at 83. 
1997 Alan Mouncer, film director/producer, dies at 68
2005 An Iranian C-130 Hercules airplane crashes into a ten-story building in a civilian area of Tehran, the capital of Iran, killing all 94 people aboard and 34 residents of the building - a total of 128 people
2007 A pipe bomb explodes in a law office in Paris, France, killing one person.
2012 7 people are killed and 770 injured during Egyptian protests.
2017 Starbucks opens its largest cafe in the world in Shanghai, 30000 square-feet, 1/2 size of a football field.
2017 Time Magazine names their Person of the Year "The Silence Breakers", people who came forward to report sexual misconduct.
2017 US President Donald Trump officially recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital, announcing plans to move US embassy there
2017 Skirball wildfire near Los Angeles closes the Interstate 405 as thousands forced to evacuate
2017 Andrej Babiš is sworn as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
2017 Britain's top Brexit negotiator David Davis admits there has been "no systematic impact assessment" on effects of Brexit
2017 Brazilian drug lord Rogério da Silva arrested in Rio.
2017 "Supermassive" most distant black hole discovery announced by astronomers in journal "Nature", 13 billion light-years away, 800 x bigger than the Sun
2017 The United States officially recognises Jerusalem as Israel's capital
2018 Senegal's new Museum of Black Civilisations is opened in Dakar by President Macky Sall
2018 Luxembourg is the inaugural country to make all public transport free.
2018 Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry explodes for franchise-record 238 yards and 4 touchdowns in 30-9 win v Jacksonville Jaguars in Nashville; 99-yard TD run ties Dallas Cowboys HOF RB Tony Dorsett's longest run in NFL history.
2018 Oldest-known plague sample are discovered in 4900-year-old remains of 20-year old woman in Gökhem, southern Sweden published in "Cell".
2020 The 2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election takes place
2021 Former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to four years (later reduced to two) for inciting public unrest and breaching Covid-19 protocols [1]
2021 The United States announces a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in response to China's human rights record. Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia join shortly after
2021 COVID-19 pandemic: The United States is recorded as becoming the inaugural country to surpass 50 million COVID-19 cases.
2023 Taylor Swift is named Time's Person of the Year [1].
2023 In this year, Google DeepMind releases the Gemini Language Model. Gemini will act as a foundational model integrated into Google's existing tools, including search and Bard
2025 In this year, MLS Cup: Inter Miami claims their inaugural championship with 3-1 win over Vancouver Whitecaps at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2025 Eleven are killed, including three young children, and fourteen are injured in a shooting at a bar in Saulsville, Gauteng, South Africa.
2025 A fire at a nightclub in Arpora, Goa, India, leaves at least 25 people dead and 50 injured
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