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Sunday, 15 February 2026
2005 Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain is born 
2007 The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched on mission STS-117
2012 A bus bombing in Pakistan results in the deaths of 18 and injures 35 people
2013 Serena Williams defeats Maria Sharapova to win the French Open in tennis
2014 Peng Shuai of China and Hsieh Su-wei win the women's tennis doubles at the French Open
2017 Ex-FBI chief James Comey testifies to a US Senate committee that US President Donald Trump told "lies plain and simple"
2017 UN states Islamic State forces have shot and killed hundreds of fleeing civilians during battle for Mosul, Iraq in past two weeks
2017 British General Election results in a hung parliament, Prime Minster Theresa May and the Conservative party lose their majority.
2017 US prisoner Richard Anthony Jones freed after 17 years in Roeland Park, Kansas when his lookalike discovered
2018 NBA Finals: Golden State Warriors win their 3rd title in 4 years with a 108-85 over the Cleveland Cavaliers for a 4-nil sweep. Kevin Durant MVP.
2018 WhatsApp rumours of child kidnappers in India prompt two men to be beaten to death by a mob in Karbi Angong district, Assam.
2018 IMF agrees to lend Argentina up to 50 billion dollars
2018 World's most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia
2018 The 44th G7 summit is held in Canada. President Trump pushes for the reinstatement of the G8 (to include Russia). He also proposes the elimination of tariffs
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 7 million worldwide
2023 US federal prosecutors file 37 count indictment against former US President Donald Trump , for unlawful retention of defense information, for storing dozens of classified documents at his Florida resort, and obstruction of justice [1] [2].
2025 magnitude 7.5 earthquake off of Japan's northeast coast leads to building damage and triggers a brief tsunami warning.
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