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Monday, 09 February 2026
1995 Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement 
1995 Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada
1995 STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½ days
1995 Charles Drain, singer, dies at 65.
1996 Alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis, poet, dies at 84.
1997 Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die
1997 Willem de Kooning (abstract artist), dead Alzheimer's at 92
2007 The 2007 Formula 1 World Championship Begins with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.
2012 Superleague Greece football match between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is abandoned after fans set fire to Athens' Olympic Stadium
2013 Explosions kill 25 people at a bus park in Kano, Nigeria.
2014 Phil Jackson signs a five-year contract to be president of the New York Knicks
2018 Vladimir Putin is elected to a new six-year term as Russian President with 76% of the vote, his fourth term.
2018 inaugural fatal accident involving an Uber self-driving car hitting a pedestrain in Tempe, Arizona.
2018 Bushfire in Tathra, New South Wales, Australia, destroys over 70 buildings.
2018 Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seize Kurdish held northern Syrian town of Afrin.
2018 Serial bomber suspected after fourth bomb goes off in Austin, Texas, injuring two, total bombing death toll, 2 dead, 5 injured.
2018 US Senator Amy Klobuchar calls on Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the Senate Judiciary in wake in data mining scandal with Cambridge Analytica.
2018 African American Stephon Clark shot 20 times by police in his Grandmother's backyard in Sacramento, California during vandalism investigation
2018 In the Russian presidential election, Vladimir Putin is elected for a fourth term.
2020 US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agree to close the US-Canada border, the world's longest, to non-essential travel to curb COVID-19
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The European Broadcasting Union announces that the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 will be cancelled due to COVID-19 in Europe, the inaugural cancellation in the contest's 64-year history
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] Solidarity trial, a WHO-sponsored group dedicated to finding a cure against COVID-19, is announced by Director-General of WHO Tedros Adhanom
2025 27th and 28th US military strikes in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean sink two suspected drug smuggling vessels and kill five, bringing total deaths in the program to over 100
2025 Israel launches widespread aerial bombardments and attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 591 people, including children, ending the ceasefire agreement reached in January.
2025 The President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, survives an attack on his convoy by al-Shabaab, killing at least 10 people
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