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Saturday, 21 February 2026

2006  FC Barcelona beat Arsenal in the final of the UEFA Champions League played in Paris.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2007  Alex Salmond officially became inaugural Minister of Scotland after taking over from Jack McConnell  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2007  Hong Kong media regulator receives more than thousand complaints about the Bible being too sexual.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2007  The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate re-united after eighty years of schism  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2013  90 people are killed and 200 are injured after a series of bombings across Iraq.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2014  Atlético Madrid win the 2013–14 La Liga  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2018  Gina Haspel confirmed as the inaugural female director of the CIA by the US Senate.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2018  Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo spreads to the city of Mbandaka.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2018  In this year, Michigan State University will pay $500 million in claims to 300 survivors of sexual abuse involving Larry Nassar. Largest sexual abuse case in sports history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2019  Taiwan's parliament is recorded as becoming the inaugural in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2019  Ibiza affair: A corruption scandal involving the Vice-Chancellor of Austria Heinz-Christian Strache and deputy leader of the Freedom Party Johann Gudenus offering to fix state contracts with a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch at a 2017 meeting in Spain leads to the collapse of the coalition government and calls for snap elections.May 18 - 2019 Australian federal election: Scott Morrison's Liberal/National Coalition Government is narrowly re-elected, defeating the Labor Party led by Bill Shorten.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2020  Israel swears in a new government led by both Benny Gantz, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after 510 days  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2020  Michael Jordan 's autographed Air Nike 1s trainers from 1985 sell for a record $560000 in an online auction  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2020  Barack Obama criticizes the US government's handling of the pandemic during an online address to graduates, saying officials "aren't even pretending to be in charge"  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2021  Discovery, Inc. agrees to buy media conglomerate WarnerMedia and all of its subsidiaries, from AT and T for US$43 billion. The merger is set to be complete the following year  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2025  26th US military lethal strike in international waters of a suspected drug smuggling vessel results in the deaths of four.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2025  Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years are are discovered on a mountain in Stelvio National Park in northern Italy [1]  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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1155  Jien: Japanese poet and historian  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1443  Edmund: Earl of rutland, brother of kings edward iv of england and richard iii of england  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1444  Sandro botticelli: Italian painter (birth of venus)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1451  Engelbert ii: Earl of nassau-dillenburg-dietz/viceroy of luxembourg  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1490  Albrecht von hohenzollern: 1st duke of prussia  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1551  Martinus a del rio: Spanish/south neth lawyer/historian/theologist  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1551  Martin delrio: Flemish theologian and occultist  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1568  Christoph thomas walliser: Composer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In May - 17

Famous People Died On This Day In History

1050  Guido van arezzo: Italian music theorist,  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1189  Minamoto no yoshitsune: Japanese general (b. 1159)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1336  Emperor go-fushimi of japan: Emperor go-fushimi of japan (b. 1288)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1365  Louis vi the roman: Duke of bavaria and elector of brandenburg (b. 1328)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1395  Constantine dragas: Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1464  Thomas de ros: 10th baron de ros, english politician (executed) (b. 1427)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1510  Alessandro di botticelli: Painter (birth of venus),  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1521  Edward stafford: 3rd duke of buckingham, english politician (b. 1478)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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