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Monday, 23 February 2026
1986 Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is shot to death 
1986 Sven Olof Palme, Swedish PM (1969-76, 82-86), assassinated at 59.
1987 Anny Ondra, actress (Blackmail), dies at 83
1988 15th Winter Olympics games close at Calgary, Canada.
1988 Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed.
1988 Mikha`il Na'imah, Lebanese playwright, dies at 99
1989 Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA.
1989 Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers is recorded as becoming public
1989 Hermann Burger, writer, dies at 46.
1990 Dutch police seize 3000 kg of cocaine
1990 The space shuttle Atlantis launches from Cape Canaveral, to place a spy satellite in orbit
1990 Colin Milburn, cricketer (9 Tests for England, 654 runs), dies
1991 The Gulf War ends as Iraq orders its army to stop fighting.
1991 US and allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire.
1991 Guillermo Ungo, member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies.
1992 Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek), dies at 49
1993 7th American Comedy Award Seinfeld claims.
1993 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents attempt to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians at a compound near Waco, TX, triggering a 51-day siege
1993 Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife
1993 Fer A Olthoff, Dutch WW II resistance fighter (Het Parool), dies.
1994 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect
1995 Denver International Airport opens
1995 In Fredericton New Brunswick, a judicial report on sexual abuse of boys at Kingsclear Training Centre released; critical of bureaucratic indifference that allowed abuse to continue for almost 30 years
1995 US Marines land in Somalia to protect the retreating UN peacekeeping force.
1996 38th Grammy Awards Jagged Little Pill-Alanis Morisette claims.
1997 Earthquake in Pakistan, results in the deaths of 45.
1997 FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia.
1997 Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US.
1998 "View From the Bridge," closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1998 Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1600 points.
2000 A 6.8 earthquake shook the Pacific Northwest resulting in injuries and over 1 billion dollars damage
2007 The New Horizons space probe makes a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter which changes its trajectory towards Pluto.
2012 Occupy London protesters evicted from St Paul's Cathedral
2013 28 people are killed and 60 are injured after a series of bombings across Baghdad, Iraq.
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