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Friday, 13 February 2026
2011 Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI 
2012 China and Russia sign $15 billion dollar trade deal
2013 Insurgents kill 6 people in Pattani, Thailand
2014 Hundreds march through Nigerian capital calling for the release of schoolgirls abducted by Islamic militants, Boko Haram, who oppose Western education.
2017 World Snooker Championship: Briton Mark Selby defends title beating John Higgins 18-15, at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
2017 Billy Corgan agrees to purchase the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).
2018 Liverpool's Egyptian soccer forward Mohamed Salah is recorded as becoming the inaugural African to be named England Football Writers' Footballer of the Year
2018 Chinese authorities label British cartoon "Peppa Pig" subversive and it is removed from the Douyin video website.
2018 Violent May Day protests in Paris by far-left Black Blocs group result in 200 arrests.
2018 Scotland is the inaugural country in the world to introduce a minimum price on alcohol.
2019 Naruhito officially succeeds his father Akihito as the Emperor of Japan after the latter abdicated due to ill health
2019 Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions in London.
2019 Argentine forward Lionel Messi scores twice for his 600th goal for FC Barcelona in a 3-0 home win over Liverpool in a Champions League semi final
2019 King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand marries his personal bodyguard Suthida Tidjai - a commoner - in a surprise ceremony, making her queen consort of Thailand.
2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin signs into law a controversial "sovereign internet" bill that allows Russian authorities to better monitor internet routing and to steer Russian internet traffic away from foreign servers. Proponents of the bill say it ensures Russian internet security and decreases dependence on foreign servers while critics argue it gives new censorship powers to the government and is a part of a global trend of cyber-balkanization.May 3 - The number of deaths from the Kivu Ebola outbreak exceeds 1000. It is the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, only surpassed by the West African Ebola virus epidemic of 2013–2016
2020 Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announces ban on 1500 types of assault-style weapons in response to recent Nova Scotia shooting.
2020 Tweets by Elon Musk saying Tesla's share price is too high wipe $14 billion off the carmaker's value
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The total number of recovered COVID-19 patients reaches 1 million worldwide, according to data from The Johns Hopkins University.
2023 Geoffrey Hinton 'the Godfather of AI" steps down from Google to speak out about the dangers of AI - eliminating jobs and creating a world where many may “not be able to know what is true anymore” [1]
2023 US White Houses estimates Russia has lost 100000 troops so far in 2023 invading Ukraine, with 20000 killed. Half of those losses from Wagner mercenaries . [1]
2025 Indian chess prodigy Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, from Madhya Pradesh, is recorded as becoming youngest player to earn official FIDE (International Chess Federation) rating at 3 years, 7 months and 20 days old, besting November 2024 youngesr record holder Anish Sarkar, by about a month
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