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Saturday, 21 February 2026
2006 FC Barcelona beat Arsenal in the final of the UEFA Champions League played in Paris. 
2007 Alex Salmond officially became inaugural Minister of Scotland after taking over from Jack McConnell
2007 Hong Kong media regulator receives more than thousand complaints about the Bible being too sexual.
2007 The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate re-united after eighty years of schism
2013 90 people are killed and 200 are injured after a series of bombings across Iraq.
2014 Atlético Madrid win the 2013–14 La Liga
2018 Gina Haspel confirmed as the inaugural female director of the CIA by the US Senate.
2018 Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo spreads to the city of Mbandaka.
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.
2019 Taiwan's parliament is recorded as becoming the inaugural in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage
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.
2020 Israel swears in a new government led by both Benny Gantz, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after 510 days
2020 Michael Jordan 's autographed Air Nike 1s trainers from 1985 sell for a record $560000 in an online auction
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"
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
2025 26th US military lethal strike in international waters of a suspected drug smuggling vessel results in the deaths of four.
2025 Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years are are discovered on a mountain in Stelvio National Park in northern Italy [1]
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