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Monday, 16 February 2026
1987 59th Academy Awards: "Platoon", Paul Newman and Marlee Matlin win. 
1988 second Soul Train Music Awards
1989 Dort Clark, actor (In Harm's Way), dies.
1990 Riot police in Quebec City break up demonstration by 2000 marchers against university tuition fee increases;
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (are discovered not guilty).
1991 Jan Willem Hofstra, Dutch actor/writer (Friends of My Friends), dies
1992 64th Academy Awards (Silent of the Lambs sweeps with Best Picture, Anthony Hopkins as Best Actor and Jodie Foster as Best Actress)
1992 PJ Patterson, steps down as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica.
1992 Art Hannes, announcer, dies of a respiratory ailment at 72.
1993 French government of Balladur forms.
1993 In this year, Jamaican premier Percival Patterson claims parliamentary election.
1993 Jeremy Siegrist, actor (Adv of Darly and Samy), dies hiking at 20
1994 Albert Goldman, rock biographer (Elvis, John Lennon), dies at 66
1995 Graham Anthony Richard Lock, cricketer, dies at 65
1996 Prince Edward and girl-friend Sophie Rhys-Jones visited Greystoke Castle.
1996 Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist, dies at 78.
1999 A jury in Portland, Oregon, orders Philip Morris to pay $US81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades.
2006 The al-Dana capsizes off the coast of Bahrain, killing at least 48 people.
2006 The inaugural Brazilian astronaut, Marcos Pontes, goes to space in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-8, at 2:29:00 CET.
2006 The inaugural World Baseball Classic ends in San Diego, California with Japan beating Cuba in the Championship
2012 Spanish Government cuts 27 Billion Euros from its budget in one of its toughest austerity driver in history
2013 North Korea declares it is at a state of war with South Korea.
2017 North Carolina repeals its controversial bathroom law that restricted transgender use
2017 Venezuela Supreme Court takes over legislative powers of the National Assembly, opposition calls it a coup
2017 Ex-South Korean president Park Geun-hye arrested in corruption investigation.
2017 SpaceX conducts the world's inaugural reflight of an orbital class rocket
2018 Palestinians begin a "Great March of Return", 6 weeks of protests on the Gaza Strip demanding Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to Israel. 19 Palestinians killed, 1416 injured on the inaugural day
2019 Pope Francis arrives in Rabat, Morocco, on his inaugural-ever visit to the Magreb region of Northern Africa
2019 Swedish gamer and YouTuber PewDiePie overtaken by Indian channel T-Series as YouTube channel with most subscribers (both on 92 million).
2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war: The price of Brent Crude falls 9% to $23 per barrel, the lowest level since November 2002.
2023 Former US President Donald Trump is indicted by a Manhattan Grand Jury on charges over hush payments paid to porn star Stormy Daniels - 1st US President to face criminal charges [1]
2023 Key figures in Artificial Intelligence including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak sign open letter warning the race to develop AI systems is out of control, asking for suspension for at least six months [1] [2]
2023 The International Court of Justice rules that the United States violated its Treaty of Amity with Iran when it allowed its domestic courts to freeze assets held by Iranian companies.April 2 - The Bulgarian parliamentary election results in a GERB—SDS–PP–DB coalition government headed by Nikolai Denkov as prime minister, and ends two years of political deadlock
2025 PostNord, the Danish postal service, formally ends letter deliveries entirely, shifting exclusively to packages; the government agency was established in 1624 [1].
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