Page 9: Historical Events In February - 09
Tuesday, 17 February 2026
1984 Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer, dies in Madras. 

1985 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks 

1986 Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun). 

1986 Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed President of South Yemen 

1987 Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide. 

1987 New York Stock Exchange installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club. 

1989 In this year, Michael Manley's Socialist Party claims Jamaica parliamentary election. 

1989 Neo-Nazi groups outlawed in West Germany 

1990 "The Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV 

1990 Bottles of Perrier water are voluntarily recalled in the U.S. after benzene is detected in a small number of bottles 

1990 Galileo flies by Venus. 

1990 Namibia's constitution ratified 

1991 "This Is Ponderous" by 2nu peaks at #46. 

1991 Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice and beats him 

1991 Voters in Lithuania vote for independence 

1991 In this year, Wally Joyner claims record $2.1 million salary arbitration 

1992 quickest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 second by Thomas School of Germany. 

1992 Fighting between government and guerrilla forces in Rwanda. 

1993 Army of opium king Khun Sa results in the deaths of 60 in NE Burma 

1993 David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54. 

1994 Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat 

1994 Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Yasser Arafat. 

1994 Arnold Smith, Brit 1st sec-gen of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79 

1995 Former U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright dies in Washington, D.C. at age 89. 

1995 David Wayne, [Wayne Mcmeekan], US actor (Dallas), dies at 81 

1996 Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe), dies at 83 

1997 11th American Comedy Award Debbie Reynolds. 

1997 Fox cartoon series "Simpsons" airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history 

1997 Scotty Bowman, is inaugural NHL coach to win 1000 games. 

1997 Barry Evans, actor (Dr Upton-Dr in the House), dies at 53 

1998 Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze 

1998 Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95 

2005 An ETA car bomb injured 31 people at a conference centre in Madrid 

2013 5 people are killed after Cessna plane crashes on a Brussels runway 

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