Page 9: Historical Events In February - 12
Saturday, 07 February 2026
1991 North and South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition 

1991 Edward A Blatt, director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88 

1992 Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, boxing champ (Olympic-gold-1928), dies 

1993 A pair of 10-year-olds kidnap and beat to death a two-year-old child at a Liverpool, England shopping mall 

1993 James Bulger, English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys 

1994 17th Olympics Winter games open in Lillehammer, Norway. 

1994 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston. 

1994 Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo) 

1994 Edward Munch's painting "The Scream" is stolen from the Norwegian National Gallery. It is later returned and promptly stolen again 

1994 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose 

1994 Rev. Victoria Matthews consecrated the inaugural female Bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada. 

1994 Sue Rodriguez takes her own life at age 43 with the help of an anonymous doctor, after a long fight with Lou Gehrig's Disease 

1994 Donald Judd, US furniture maker/architect/artist, dies at 65. 

1995 In this year, PRI loses/PAN claims Mexican regional elections. 

1995 Susan Auch skates female world record 500 meter (38.94 seconds). 

1995 Earring George Mayweather, blues harmonica player, dies at 66. 

1996 Roger Omond, journalist, dies at 51. 

1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement. 

1998 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die and 50 hurt. 

1998 Intel unveils its inaugural graphics chip i740 

1999 American Airlines pilots defy a federal court order and continue their sickout, causing the airline to cancel over a thousand flights 

1999 The U.S. Senate acquits President Bill Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice in his impeachment trial. 

2000 Former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry dies at age 75 after battling leukemia for nine months 

2000 Peanuts creator Charles Schulz dies of colon cancer in his Santa Rosa, California, home at age 77. 

2005 Fire devastated the Windsor Building, a 32 story office block, in Madrid 

2007 An armed gunman shoots and results in the deaths of five people at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, before being killed by the police, bringing the evening's rampage death toll to six. 

2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes near Buffalo in e ate of New York killing 50 people. 

2010 The 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada. 

2012 Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected president of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote. 

2013 North Korea confirms it has successfully tested a nuclear device that could be weaponized 

2014 Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov win the Olympic gold in pairs figure skating 

2017 Emergency spillway at Oroville Dam, California threatens to collapse, 18000 residents ordered to evacuate. 

2017 In this year, 59th Grammy Awards: Adele claims Best Song "Hello" and Best Album "25". 

2017 North Korea conducts a solid fuel ballistic missile test from Banghyon air base 

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