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Wednesday, 11 February 2026
1989 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison 
1989 Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, results in the deaths of patients.
1990 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa
1990 Health Minister Perrin Beatty announces $75-100000 in compensation for each victim of the drug thalidomide born between 1959 and 1961
1990 Ken Lynch, actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies at 79
1991 Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel.
1991 US bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334
1991 Bernard Sauer, Yiddish actor, dies of heart attack at 67.
1992 Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW.
1992 West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game.
1992 Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist/writer (Restless Travel), dies at 61.
1993 Agatha Hagtingius-Seger, Dutch author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91.
1994 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, results in the deaths of 200.
1994 Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist, dies at 84.
1995 A Netherlands tribunal indicts 21 Serbs for atrocities committed at a Bosnian prison camp.
1995 Richard Weber of Chelsea, Quebec and Russian MD Mikhail Mlakhov start 1500 km ski trek from Canada's northernmost point of land to the North Pole
1995 West Indies beat New Zealand by innings and 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55
1995 Abdelhafid Said, Algerian student leader, murdered.
1996 Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts".
1996 Rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway.
1997 Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope.
1998 In Victoria, BC three girls of ages 14, 15, and 16 are discovered guilty of the murder of 14 year old schoolmate Reena Virk; three others plead guilty to assault charges
2007 North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by apr 14 as a inaugural step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50000 tons of heavy fuel oil.[7].
2007 Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou steps down as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
2009 Unix time passed 1234567890 seconds february 13, 2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC)
2013 16 Muslim insurgents are killed in an attack on a Narathiwat military base, Thailand
2017 US President Donald Trump accepts the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn over his dealings with Russia
2017 Harrison Ford involved in a near miss while flying a plane at John Wayne Airport, Orange County.
2018 South African President Jacob Zuma is ordered to step down by the A.N.C
2018 South Africa declares a three-year drought a National Disaster, though pushes Cap Town's "Day Zero" to June 4.
2018 Israeli Police report recommends Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be prosecuted on bribery, fraud and breach-of-trust charges.
2019 A suicide bomb attack on a vehicle results in the deaths of at least 27 Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran. It is one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Iran in years.
2020 In this year, NASA publishes a detailed study of Arrokoth, the most distant body ever explored by a spacecraft, which New Horizons passed by on its journey through the Kuiper belt
2021 Mario Draghi , former head of the European Central Bank, is sworn in as Italian Prime Minister ahead of a new coalition government
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