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Saturday, 14 February 2026
1997 Dawn Steel, producer/pres (Col TriStar), dies of brain tumor at 51 
1997 Coca-Cola went Christmas shopping on this day and came home with a rather hefty present: Orangina, the "sparkling" French beverage formerly owned by Pernod Richard.
1998 A particularly vicious virus invaded systems at MCI WorldCom. Unlike other viruses, the Remote Explorer bug was capable of damaging a system even if users did not download a file or open an e-mail attachment
1998 Microsoft was ordered to stop blocking holiday e-mail cards from Blue Mountain Arts
2005 Industrial action by bus drivers in Tehran leads to the arrest of Mansour Osanlou and several other union activists.
2005 In this year, The U.S. Census Bureau releases its population estimates for 205
2006 The Space Shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center, concluding a two week mission to the International Space Station.
2012 6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus.
2017 UN Security Council votes 15 to 0 for additional sanctions on North Korea, including measures to slash the country's petrol imports by up to 90%
2017 The UN Security Council votes 15-0 in favor of additional sanctions on North Korea, including measures to slash the country's petroleum imports by up to 90%
2018 Partial shutdown of US federal government begins.
2018 Tsunami hits Indonesia's Sunda Strait killing over 400 after part of Anak Krakatau volcano slips into the sea
2018 A tsunami hits the Sunda Strait, Indonesia, killing at least 430 people and injuring nearly 1500
2023 Israel–Hamas war: The death toll in Gaza is reported to have passed 20000, almost 1 percent of its population and surpassing the casualties in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
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