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Saturday, 21 February 2026
1994 A magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes Southern California, killing 61 people and causing $20 billion in damage 
1994 A pre-dawn earthquake struck the Los Angeles area, claiming 61 lives and causing widespread damage.
1994 Liz Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment.
1995 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5372 die).
1995 A powerful earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, and the surrounding area, killing more than 5000 people.
1995 More than 6000 die as a magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Kobe, Japan
1995 Great Hanshin earthquake in Japan killing 6434 people
1996 Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman got life in prison and 16 others were also sentenced to jail for plotting to bomb the United Nations
1998 President Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones.
2000 Almost 50000 people marched in Columbia, S.C., to protest the flying of the Confederate battle flag over the state Capitol
2001 Jewish Holocaust survivors win compensation deal from Austria for assets stripped from them when Austria was part of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich
2001 Parts of California were plunged into darkness after utility companies failed to deliver enough electrical power. The rolling blackouts affected as many as 2 million people.
2002 The U.S. Justice Department began an international manhunt for five suspected al-Qaida members believed to be plotting a new suicide attack.
2002 The volcano on Mount Nyiragongo, near the town of Goma in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, erupted causing at least 45 deaths and leaving an estimated 55000 people homeless.
2004 Authorities placed the U.S. military death toll in Iraq at 500, including 346 in combat.
2007 Doomsday Clock is set to 5 minutes to midnight
2007 Hurricane force winds from storm Kyrill claim at least 40 lives in western Europe.
2007 Protests occur in India and the United Kingdom against the British series of Celebrity Big Brother after Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara were alleged to have been racially abusive towards Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty
2013 106 people are massacred by Syrian army forces in Homs
2014 21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan
2017 US President Barack Obama commutes WikiLeaks discloser Chelsea Manning's prison sentence from 35 to 7 years
2017 Nigerian military mistakely bomb refugee camp killing more than 70 in Rann, Borno state
2017 Search for missing aircraft MH370 over the Indian Ocean is called off
2019 A vehicle-bound suicide bomb attack in Bogotá, Colombia, results in the deaths of 22 people and injures 68 others, making it the deadliest attack on the Colombian capital since 2003.
2024 UK royal palace announces Catherine, Princess of Wales is hospitalized for abdominal surgery and King Charles III is receiving prostate treatment [1].
2025 26th US military lethal strike in international waters of a suspected drug smuggling vessel results in the deaths of four
2025 Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years are are discovered on a mountain in Stelvio National Park in northern Italy [1]
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