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Saturday, 07 February 2026
1987 No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings 
1987 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR.
1988 Lee Goodman, actor (Imitation of Life), dies of TB at 64.
1989 Lech Walesa begins negotiating with the Polish government.
1989 Andre Cayatte, dies.
1991 Debris from the Soviet space station 'Salyut 7' fall into the Atlantic as it breaks up
1993 Former tennis great Arthur Ashe dies in New York at age 49.
1993 Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 Actor Joseph Cotten dies in Los Angeles at age 88.
1994 Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland
1995 Beachboy Brian Wilson wed Melinda Ledbetter
1995 Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket.
1996 Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence.
1997 Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm
1998 "Africa The Serengeti" is recorded as becoming the inaugural DVD to include separate language tracks.
1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7½ years
1998 U.S. President Bill Clinton signs a bill renaming Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan National Airport.
1998 "Africa: The Serengeti" is recorded as becoming the inaugural DVD to include separate language tracks
2005 Death of Merle Kilgore, singer, songwriter (b.1934)
2005 The New England Patriots won their third Super Bowl title in four years by winning 24-21 over the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX
2012 magnitude 6.9 quake hits near the central Philipines with 43 confirmed deaths.
2012 The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth
2013 A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs Off the Solomon Islands coast causing the death of nine people
2014 Jay Leno ends his time on The Tonight Show
2017 Qatar Airways achieves the longest-ever commercial flight in service when its B777 aircraft lands in Auckland after a 16 hour and 23 minutes flight from Doha.
2018 Elon Musk 's company SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, world's most powerful rocket.
2018 Maldives President Abdulla Yameen declares state of emergency ordering arrest of two judges.
2018 Brazilian jockey Jorge Ricardo equals world record number of victories for a jockey - 12844 in Rio de Janeiro.
2018 UN calls for ceasefire in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area by Syrian government troops after 40 people reportedly killed
2018 Polish president Andrzej Duda signs controversial Holocaust law, outlaws accusing Poles of complicity under Nazis
2018 magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Hualien County, Taiwan, leaving 10 dead and over 50 missing
2018 SpaceX successfully conducts its maiden flight of its most powerful rocket to date, the Falcon Heavy, from LC39A at John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
2019 The Freedom House organization states that Hungary was no longer a free country, making it the inaugural country in the European Union to be labelled as "partly free". It also stated that neighboring Serbia was no longer a free country as well
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