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Sunday, 08 February 2026
1985 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut 
1985 Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 years
1985 In the Leeward Islands a 6.8 earthquake injured 6 and damage (VI) on Guadeloupe. Minor damage on Montserrat. Also felt on Antigua, St. Kitts and Puerto Rico.
1985 Roger Huntington Sessions, US composer (Black Masks), dies at 88.
1987 Scott McKay, actor (Guest in House, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), dies at 71
1988 As part of the Iran-Contra affair, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North and Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter of the National Security Council (NSC) are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States
1988 Federal grand jury indicts Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North and Navy Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair
1988 North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed
1988 US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
1988 Dorothy Adams Foulger, actress (Laura, Devil Commands), dies at 88
1990 Ernst Bacon, composer, dies at 91
1991 7 members of Reba McEntire's band are killed in a plane crash
1991 New York Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner (#s are 18-21-32-33-35-38).
1991 7 members of Reba McIntire's band, killed in a plane crash
1992 Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball
1992 Renzhong Weangn, China politician (1934-45), dies.
1993 Edmonton, Alberta Police use pepper spray and batons to control over 100 youths who attacked passers-by in the Eaton Centre and Edmonton Centre malls, after a screening of the rap movie spoof CB4
1993 Chishu Ryu, Japanese actor (Autumn Afternoon), dies of cancer at 86
1994 Moravcik forms Slovakia government.
1994 Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4069.15
1995 Mississippi House of Representatives ratifies 13th Amendement-formally abolishes slavery.
1995 World best 7th wicket stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh Jr and P Dharmani
1995 Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95
1996 Mike Tyson KOs Frank Bruno in 2nd round
1997 In this year, Donna Andrews claims LPGA Welch's/Circle K Championship.
2005 Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, accused of the bombing of the Air India Flight 182 in 1985, are are discovered not guilty on all counts
2010 The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed by fire.
2012 Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan
2013 A €10 billion Cyprus bailout plan will wipe out 10% of the citizens bank deposits.
2014 Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia amid international condemnation of its design.
2017 US President Donald Trump 's second travel ban is blocked by 2 federal courts
2018 Indian actor Irrfan Khan reveals he has been diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour
2018 Asia's second-richest person, Hong Kong's Li Ka-Shing, announces his retirement at 89.
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