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Monday, 23 February 2026
1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die 
1986 Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House.
1986 Nigel Stock, actor (Lost Continent, Young Sherlock Holmes), dies.
1987 W Landgraf discovers asteroid #3683 Baumann
1988 Dayton Lummis, actor (Moonfire, Flight that Disappeared), dies
1989 The movie "Batman" premiers.
1990 A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Stat of Liberty.
1990 TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of the year.
1991 Tony Randall and Jack Klugman star in Bdwy performance of Odd Couple
1991 Antonio Jacinto, Angolan poet, dies at 66
1992 Lou Ramos, entertainer, dies
1994 Alan Frank, music publisher, dies at 83
1995 Jonas Salk, biologist (Polio vaccine), dies of heart failure
1996 Andreas George Papandreou, PM of Greece (1981-89, 93-96), dies at 76
1997 "Wino" Willie Forkner, biker (Wild One), dies of heart attack at 77
2006 In Miami, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests seven men, accusing them of planning to bomb the Sears Tower and other attacks in Miami
2012 Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years.
2013 9 tourists and 1 tour guide are killed after gunmen storm a hotel near Nanga Parbat, Pakistan
2014 Claude Monet 's Water Lilies is sold at auction for US$54 million
2017 Saudi Arabia and allies, Egypt, UAE and Bahrain issue list of 13 conditions to Qatar in return for lifting sanctions, including closing Al Jazeera TV.
2017 Landslide in Xinmo village, Sichuan province, China results in the deaths of 15 with more than 100 missing
2017 "Bridge Over Troubled Water" single organized by Simon Cowell for those affected by Grenfell tower fire reaches No. 1 in UK charts.
2018 Violent clashes over several days between ethnic Berom farmers and Fulani herders in Plateau state, Nigeria, kill 86
2018 Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa survives probable assassination attempt after blast at election rally in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe results in the deaths of 2 and injures nearly 50.
2018 Laura Ingalls Wilder's name removed from book award by US Association for Library Service to Children, becuase of author's racist views and language
2018 Explosion at a rally in Addis Ababa after speech by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed results in the deaths of two and injures 150.
2018 Indian chess prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is recorded as becoming the second-youngest grandmaster at 12 years, 10 months, 13 days.
2018 12 boys and their coach are stranded in Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand by monsoon flooding, prompting an international rescue effort when they are discovered 9 days later
2020 A 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico and results in the deaths of at least four people. It is felt more than 640 kilometres (400 mi) away in Mexico City.
2021 Britney Spears requests a judge end her court-ordered conservatorship, states "I think this conservatorship is abusive. I don't think I can live a full life"
2021 In this year, 2021 ICC World Test Championship Final: New Zealand claims the 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship.[130]
2023 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Arctic Monkeys, Guns 'n' Roses, and Elton John headline; other performers include Foo Fighters (in a surprise appearance), Rickie Lee Jones, Lizzo , Little Nas X, Yusuf/ Cat Stevens , Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp, Fred Again, and The War on Drugs.
2023 Russian invasion of Ukraine: The Wagner Group, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, begins an armed conflict with the Russian military, seizing the city of Rostov-on-Don and portions of the Voronezh Oblast before withdrawing the next day, after a peace agreement brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
2024 On the Grand Duke's Official Birthday, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg announces that his son and heir Guillaume will assume royal duties beginning in October, in preparation for Henri's eventual abdication.
