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Sunday, 08 February 2026
1994 President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed 
1995 9th Soul Train Music Awards Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
1995 Anti fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms.
1995 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%.
1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
1995 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
1996 At Dunblane, a thirteenth century village on the edge of the Scottish Highlands, forty-three-year-old Thomas Hamilton bursts into the gymnasium of the Dunblane Primary School with four guns, and opens fire on a kindergarten class. Sixteen children and their teacher, Gwenne Mayor, are killed before Hamilton turns the gun on himself.
1996 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
2005 inaugural round of Central African Republic elections
2012 19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia.
2012 After 244 years since its inaugural publication, the Encyclopædia Britannica discontinues its print edition
2013 10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan.
2014 After protests earlier this month, the Israeli parliament votes 65 to 1 for legislation that ends exemptions from military service for ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students.
2018 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired via a tweet from President Donald Trump.
2018 National Geographic magazine admits its past coverage was racist in issue to mark 50 years since death of Martin Luther King Jr
2019 March 2019 North American blizzard: A winter storm completes its explosive intensification over the Southern Rocky Mountains region, which began the day before, becoming a powerful "bomb cyclone" and triggering severe blizzard conditions across much of the Southwestern and Central United States.
2019 Australian Cardinal George Pell is sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing two choirboys in 1996.
2020 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates steps down from the company's board to focus on philanthropic activities
2020 African American Breonna Taylor shot and killed by police officers executing a no-knock warrant on her flat with a battering ram in Louisville, Kentucky [1]
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The government of Nepal announces that Mount Everest will be closed to climbers and the public for the rest of the season due to concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia.
2024 The Artificial Intelligence Act, the world's inaugural comprehensive legal and regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, is passed by the European Union.
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