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Friday, 13 February 2026
1974 Soap opera "The Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run 
1974 The three-man crew of the NASA space station, Skylab, return to Earth after completing a lengthy 84-day mission
1974 The US spacestation, Skylab, crashes back to Earth, breaking up in the atmosphere.
1974 Fern Andra, dies at 80.
1975 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea.
1975 Martyn Green, actor (Gilbert and Sullivan, Mikado), dies at 75.
1976 Hua Guofeng is recorded as becoming premier of China PR
1977 Earthquake in San Francisco CA, at 5.0, strongest since 1966
1977 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced.
1978 Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah is recorded as becoming PM of Kuwait.
1978 U.S. senate deliberations are broadcast live on radio for the inaugural time
1979 The Secretary of the Navy announced that the helicopter portion of the Navy's LAMPS MK III was to be known officially as the Seahawk
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet, dies at 82
1981 US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak.
1981 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1982 John Hay Whitney, US newspaper magnate, dies at 76
1983 Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never are discovered Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance.
1983 Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days
1984 14th Winter Olympics games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1984 inaugural time 8 people in space.
1984 Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7.
1985 Bruce Morris, Marshall University, makes a 92' 5¼" basketball shot
1985 inaugural-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica vs Barbados
1985 Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea.
1985 The Dukes of Hazzard ended its 6-1/2 year run on CBS television\
1985 Marvin Miller, actor (Michael Anthony-Millionaire), dies at 71.
1986 In this year, A head on collision between a freight train and a passenger train near Hinton, Alberta claims 23 lives
1986 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano.
1987 The West beat the East in the NBA All-Star Game. A record was set for total points scored. The West won 154-149 in overtime.
1987 Bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha], writer, dies.
1988 NASA launches DOD-2.
1988 Allan Cuthbertson, actor (Running Man, 7th Dawn), dies at 67.
1989 144 people die when a Boeing 707 jetliner crashes into a fog-shrouded mountain in the Azores.
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