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Tuesday, 17 February 2026
1994 Nelson Mandella sworn in as the president of South Africa 
1994 Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian Government with 5 neo-fascists
1995 30th Academy of Country Music Awards Reba McEntire claims.
1995 Britain lifts a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Fein.
1995 In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident.
1995 30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Reba McEntire claims
1996 "Twister" premieres.
1996 2 US Marine helicopters collided during joint US and British war games
1996 A storm hits Mt Everest, killing eight climbers in one of the worst disasters since Everest was inaugural conquered in 1953
1997 In Northern Iran a 7.5 quake, At least 1567 people killed, 2300 injured, 50000 homeless, 10533 houses destroyed, 5474 houses damaged and landslides in the Birjand-Qayen area
2005 A hand grenade ostensibly thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 10 feet (30 m) from United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
2007 Tony Blair announces he will resign as British Prime Minister on 27 jun triggering a Labour Party leadership election
2012 The Red Cross suspends all humanitarian work in Pakistan after a worker was kidnapped and killed.
2014 In this year, The African National Congress claims the 2014 South African General Election.
2017 US President Donald Trump shares classified information about ISIS plot with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office
2017 Apple is recorded as becoming the inaugural company to be worth more than $800 billion
2018 In this year, Rafael Nadal breaks John McEnroe 's record for successive set claims on a single surface (49 on carpet) with 6-3, 6-4 win over Diego Schwartzman at the Madrid Open (clay)
2018 In this year, Israel fires missiles at 70 Iranian targets inside Syria after Iran fires missiles into the Golan Heights, with claims Israel struck inaugural in attack on Baath.
2018 New record auction price for a Latin American artwork of $9.76 million for Diego Rivera 's "The Rivals".
2018 R. Kelly 's songs removed from Spotify playlists after sexual abuse allegations.
2018 China announces plans for the world's largest weather-control mechanism, rain-inducing machines for the Tibetan Plateau (area the size of Alaska)
2018 Mahathir Mohamad is sworn in as the seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia, the world's oldest leader at 92.
2019 Rihanna announces her new upmarket fashion label Fenty with world's largest luxury group LVMH, their inaugural black female designer.
2019 Amid ongoing negotiations, the United States' 25 percent tariff hike on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports takes effect, escalating tensions between the two nations in the ongoing China–United States trade war
2020 The Iranian Navy frigate Jamaran accidentally strikes the Iranian support vessel Konarak with a missile, killing nineteen sailors. This is the inaugural friendly fire incident since February 2019, when an Indian Mil Mi-17 helicopter was mistakenly shot down by Indian air defense forces.
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 4 million worldwide
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] Wuhan reports its inaugural coronavirus cases in more than a month. An 89-year-old man is confirmed positive, but his wife and several members of the community are recorded as asymptomatic cases
2021 Kazungula road and rail bridge 1km long opens over the Zambezi River linking Botswana and Zambia, with a curve so it doesn't encroach on Zimbabwe ( Robert Mugabe opposed it).
2023 In this year, Beyoncé starts her Renaissance World tour in Stockholm, Sweden, her inaugural solo tour in seven years [1]
2024 The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution to grant the State of Palestine the right to be seated among member states in alphabetical order. This will go into effect at the next session of the UN General Assembly on 10 September 2024
2024 A series of solar storms and intense solar flares impact the Earth, rated G5 by NOAA, creating aurorae at more southerly and northerly latitudes than usual. This was the inaugural G5 storm since 2003.
2024 Luis Abinader won the Dominican Republic general election on May 19.
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