Page 8: Historical Events In June - 07
Monday, 09 February 2026
1993 Drazen Petrovic, NBA player (NJ Nets), dies in auto-accident at 28 

1994 Barry Sullivan, actor (Streets of SF, Oh, God!), dies at 81 

2006 Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and seven of his aides are killed in a U.S. air raid just north of the town of Baqouba, Iraq 

2012 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays were inaugural performed, were are discovered under a pub in London 

2013 Russian President Vladimir Putin announces his divorce with his wife on national TV 

2014 In this year, Maria Sharapova claims the French Open women's tennis singles 

2017 Suicide bombers attack Iranian parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini killing 12, 1st Islamic State attacks in Iran. 

2017 Police warn bald men against attacks in Mozambique after 5 men murdered for the gold belived in their heads 

2017 Earliest-ever evidence of Homo Sapiens from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco unearthed by archaeologists published in "Nature", at 300000 years old 

2017 Two terrorist attacks are simultaneously carried out by five terrorists belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against the Iranian Parliament building and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, both in Tehran, Iran, leaving 17 civilians dead and 43 wounded. It is recorded as becoming the inaugural ISIL attack in Iran. 

2018 Mars Curiosity Rover finds organic matter, including methane, on Mars in studies published in journal "Science". 

2018 Baltimore ex-police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins, head of a rogue police unit sentenced to 25 years for robbery and racketeering. 

2018 Stanley Cup Finals: Washington Capitals earn inaugural title in franchise history with a 4-3 win in Las Vegas for a 4-1 series victory over the Golden Knights. 

2019 British Prime Minister Theresa May steps down as leader of the Conservative Party 

2019 July 7 - The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is held in France and is won by the United States 

2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The global death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 400000 

2021 US Vice President Kamala Harris visiting Guatemala on her inaugural foreign trip announces task forces on corruption and human trafficking. 

2021 The Juno spacecraft performs its only flyby of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the inaugural flyby of the moon by any spacecraft in over 20 years. 

2023 New York's air quality sinks to the lowest in the world (air quality index 218) as smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the American north east [1] 

2024 At 98, actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke is recorded as becoming the oldest winner of a Daytime Emmy, for a guest performance in "Days of Our Lives" [1] 

2024 Pat Sajak âs final appearance on "Wheel of Fortune" after 43 years - the longest continuous stint by a game show host [1]. 

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