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Thursday, 19 February 2026
1982 North Yemen earthquake in Yemen killing 2800 people. 
1983 Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's inaugural female governor
1984 Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers inaugural stroke.
1988 Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
1989 Forced repatriation of Vietnamese in Hong Kong
1990 President De Klerk of S Africa meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid.
1990 The United Nations launch an aid appeal, when new famine threatens Ethiopia.
1991 Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconciliation.
1991 New York assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud.
1993 Hubble Space Telescope repaired
1998 Ottawa Central Railway, a subsidiary of RailLink's Quebec Railway Corporation, commences operation over the CN Beachburg subdivision between Ottawa and Pembroke, ON as well as the Walkley line in Ottawa. The Ottawa Central also received running rights over the Alexandria subdivision between Ottawa and Coteau.
2005 A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks South Asia
2005 Prince Aymeric of Belgium, grandson of King Albert II of Belgium is born
2005 Prince Nicolas of Belgium, grandson of King Albert II of Belgium is born
2005 Mass race riots in Sydney, Australia, involving up to 500 youths.
2006 The Chinese River Dolphin or Baiji is recorded as becoming extinct.
2006 U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) suffers a stroke during a radio interview.
2007 Entry into force of the revised version of the European Patent Convention (EPC), known as the EPC 2000.
2007 European leaders sign the Treaty of Lisbon in Lisbon.
2007 In this year, Former US Senator George J. Mitchell publicly releases a report accusing 88 retired and active Major League Baseball players of anabolic steroid use
2012 A car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, results in the deaths of 16 people and injures 12.
2014 Divisions emerge between rich and poor nations at the UN climate change talks in Peru.
2017 Scientists begin checking interstellar asteroid Oumuamua for signs of alien technology through radio signals.
2017 Prehistoric bones of a penguin as tall as a human (1.77m) are discovered on Otago beach, New Zealand, reported in "Nature Communications".
2017 Prime Minister Theresa May 's UK Conservative government loses key vote in Parliament for an amendment to allow MPs to vote on Brexit
2017 Democratic Republic of Congo jails for life 11 militiamen for raping 40 children, including a local MP
2017 Salma Hayek accuses Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment and threatening to kill her
2017 Online dictionery Merriam-Webster's most searched word of the year is Feminism.
2018 Actress Eliza Dushku revealed received $9.5 million settlement from CBS after sexual harassment on set of "Bull" from actor Michael Weatherley
2018 Cease-fire in port city of Hudaydah, Yemen, by Houthi rebels and Saudi-led coalition announced by the UN
2018 Passenger train collides with maintenance locomotive in Ankara, Turkey, killing at least 9 and injuring 47
2018 US Senate passes non-binding "war powers resolution" against long-term ally Saudi Arabia.
2018 Apple announces new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas and expansion in other US cities.
2020 British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finishes 3rd in season-ending Abu Dhabi GP to claim record equalling 7th F1 World Drivers C'ship by 124 points from teammate Valtteri Bottas; Mercedes' 7th straight Constructors title
