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Monday, 23 February 2026
1982 Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, pres Dominican Rep, commits suicide. 
1983 Claus Adam, composer, dies at 65
1985 Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
1985 John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83
1986 Flor Peeters, Flemish baron/organist/composer, dies at 83
1987 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission
1987 In this year, Martina Navratilova claims 6th straight Wimbeldon defeats Steffi Graf.
1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" convicted by a French court
1988 Steffan Edberg beats Boris Becker for Wimbeldon crown
1988 Adrian Adonis, [Keith Franke], WWF wrestler, killed in auto accident
1989 Federal PC cabinet minister Bernard Valcourt injured while motorcycling; later charged with impaired driving and dropped from the cabinet.
1990 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner and Gettysburg Address.
1991 In Timor two events measuring 6.5 about 2.5 seconds apart. Twenty-three people killed, 181 injured, at least 5400 left homeless.
1997 Web surfers viewed the inaugural-ever photos of the surface of Mars, transmitted by the Sojourner, a roving robot deposited by the Mars Pathfinder, an unmanned spacecraft
2005 NASA's "Copper bullet" from Deep Impact spacecraft hits Comet Tempel 1, creating a crater for scientific studies
2005 Violent G8 demonstrations occur in Gleneagles, Scotland
2007 After being held for 114 days, Alan Johnston was finally freed
2007 Sochi is elected as the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics, during the 119th International Olympic Committee Session in Guatemala City.
2007 The 50-star U.S. flag is recorded as becoming the longest-flying American flag, replacing the 48-star flag that flew from 1912 to 1959.
2009 e atue of Liberty's crown reopens to e public after 8 years, due to security reasons following e World Trade Center attacks.
2012 CERN announces the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson after experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
2013 12 people are killed and 60 are injured in a wave of shootings across Chicago
2014 Rolf Harris is sentenced to 5 years and 9 months for indecently assaulting female minors.
2017 World champion Peter Sagan disqualified from Tour de France for a dangerous act while cycling during stage four
2017 North Korea tests inaugural successful intercontinental ballistic missile into Sea of Japan
2017 Russia and China urge North Korea to halt its missile and nuclear programs after it successfully tested its inaugural intercontinental ballistic missile
2018 Hong Kong'stop court rules same-sex couples entitled to equal visa rights in landmark case.
2018 Wildfire in Yolo county, California, grows to 82700 acres with 2800 fire fighters battling the blaze.
2018 Chinese technology company Baidu announces it has begun mass production of self-driving buses, the 14-seat Apolong
2019 US President Donald Trump holds a “Salute to America†Fourth of July celebration in Washington, D.C., controversial for its emphasis on the military and presence of tanks.
2019 Russian President Vladmir Putin meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican.
2021 Pope Francis undergoes surgery to remove part of his colon in Rome.
2021 Researchers reveal there are 14 living descendants of Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci [1]
2023 Iran joins the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, becoming the organization's ninth member.
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