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Friday, 20 February 2026
1982 Henk Schaer, [Hendricus J M Schaareman], Dutch actor, dies at 79. 
1984 Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia.
1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
1987 Bola Sete, guitarist, dies at 63.
1988 Alfredo Stroessner re-elected President of Paraguay.
1988 General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden.
1988 Frederick Loewe, US composer (My Fair Lady), dies at 84.
1989 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam.
1989 Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses".
1989 Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dominican Republic
1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopol disaster
1989 World's inaugural satellite Skyphone opens
1990 An Indian Airlines jetliner crashes while landing in southern India, killing 94 passengers and crew
1990 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are are discovered in some.
1990 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1990 Graeme Hole, cricketer (18 Tests for Australia, 789 runs), dies
1991 Air raid shelter at Baghdad bombed killing 300.
1991 Arno Breker, German sculptor (Third Reich), dies at 90.
1992 Cease fire in Somalia begins
1992 Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Biohazard), dies of cancer at 48
1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, results in the deaths of 79
1993 Buddy Pepper, composer, dies of heart failure at 70.
1994 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons.
1994 Christopher Lasch, author (Culture of Narcissism), dies at 61
1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas.
1995 Alberto Burri, Ital physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79
1996 Bob Paisley, football manager, dies at 77.
1997 Abitibi-Price and Stone-Consolidated announce a $2.3 billion merger, creating the world's largest newsprint maker
1999 John Ehrlichman, presidential advisor during the Nixon administration and imprisoned for his role in the Watergate scandal, dies in Atlanta, at age 73
1999 Quebec Railway Corporation takes over the former CN Mont Joli and Matane subdivisions linking Matane to Riviere du Loup, QC. The Matane sub. was the former Canada and Gulf Terminal Railway.
2000 Tornadoes rip through southwestern Georgia just after midnight, killing 19 people and injuring more than 100 others
2003 Dolly the sheep, inaugural mammal to be cloned from an adult cell dies young form a progressive lung disease aged 6
2005 A massive suicide bomb blast in central Beirut killed Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri and at least 15 other people. At least 135 other people were also hurt.
2005 Around 59 people were killed and 20 injured in a fire at a mosque in Tehran, Iran.
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