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Wednesday, 11 February 2026
1993 C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies. 
1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral.
1994 Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist/policeman, dies at 92.
1995 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64
1995 Newspapers reported that ESPN would launch a sports online service with the backing of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's Starwave Internet Company.
1995 Alexander Hyatt-King, Mozart scholar, dies at 84
1996 22nd People's Choice Awards Apollo 13, Tom Hanks win
1996 NYC Mayor Guiliani visits Israel
1996 Lucius E Burch Jr, US civil rights leader, dies at 84.
1996 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks win.
1998 4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
2006 NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit.
2012 At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza.
2013 Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy.
2014 German Chancellor Merkel warns Russia's Putin that making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine's constitution.
2017 South Korean judges uphold parliaments' decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye
2017 The UN warns that the world is facing the biggest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with up to 20 million people at risk of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.
2018 16 people die after being struck by lightening at a church in Nyaruguru District, Rwanda
2018 Two girls aged 8 and 6 become the inaugural female weightlifters to appear on Iranian television after a protest
2019 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 bound for Nairobi, crashes shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa killing all 157 people on board. All Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are subsequently grounded worldwide.
2020 Three months into the COVID-19 epidemic Chinese President Xi Jinping finally travels to Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak as the rate of daily new infections declines in China falls to 19 new cases and 17 deaths.
2020 New York governor Andrew Cuomo deploys the national guard to New Rochelle after one-mile radius zone established as 108 cases of coronavirus COVID-19 detected.
2023 Xi Jinping appointed to a historic third term as President of China (previously restricted to two terms) [1]
2023 The Chinese presidential election is held with the National People's Congress unanimously re-electing Xi Jinping as the President of the People's Republic of China to an unprecedented third term.
2023 Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume diplomatic relations which were severed in 2016, at talks mediated by China.
2023 Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the United States, fails, creating then the largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis, affecting companies around the world.
2023 Kivu conflict: Angola announces the deployment of troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following the failure of a ceasefire between government forces and M23 rebels in North Kivu.
2024 96th Academy Awards: Best Film "Oppenheimer"; Best Director Christopher Nolan , acting Cillian Murphy, Emma Stone , Robert Downey Jr , Da'vine Joy Randolph; Ryan Gosling sings "I'm Just Ken" [1].
2024 In this year, Portuguese legislative election: The Democratic Alliance claims a plurality of seats and forms a minority government amid losses by the incumbent Socialist Party and major gains by the right-wing Chega party.
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