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Tuesday, 17 February 2026
1992 California Angels are involved in a bus crash in New Jersey. 
1992 India launches its Agni rocket.
1992 Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of the Tonight Show.
1993 Riddick Bowe TKOs Jesse Ferguson in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist (Carnegie Hall), dies at 100
1994 Frederick Hemming McClintock, criminologist, dies at 68.
1995 Laverne and Shirley 20th anniversary reunionn special, televised.
1995 Robert Flemyng, actor (Kafka, Rebecca, Funny Face), dies at 83
1996 Duncan Montgomery Stewart, academic, dies at 66
1998 In Central Bolivia a 6.6 earthquake at least 105 people killed and 150 injured in the Aiquile-Totora area.
2003 Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim.
2010 Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway at Mangalore International Airport in India, killing 158 and leaving 8 survivors
2011 An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing at least 158 people, the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.
2012 14 people die and 30 are injured in train collision in India.
2012 Tokyo Skytree, the tallest self-supporting tower in the world at 634 metres high, is opened to public.
2014 The military stage a coup in Thailand, suspending the kingdom's constitution and taking control of the government (Thailand's army has staged eleven coups since 1932).
2017 Japanese researchers from University of Yamanashi report birth of mice from freeze-dried sperm stored on the International Space Station.
2017 South Africa's Western Cape province declares a drought disaster - worst for 113 years.
2017 Suicide bombing at Manchester Arena, England, after Ariana Grande concert results in the deaths of 22 and injures 59
2017 A terrorist bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England results in the deaths of 22 people and injures over 500
2018 Stacey Abrams is the inaugural black woman to be nominated as US state governor - for Georgia
2018 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is questioned by members of the European parliament in Brussels in wake of its security scandal.
2018 Outbreak of Nipah virus confirmed to have killed 10 including a nurse in Kozhikode, India.
2018 Australian court finds Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson guilty of covering up sexual abuse in 1970s, most senior Catholic priest to be convicted
2018 New York Stock Exchange announces Stacey Cunningham will be its inaugural woman head in its 226-year history.
2020 Flight PK8303, a Pakistan International Airlines passenger aircraft, crashes in a residential area near Karachi, in Pakistan, killing 97 of the 99 total people on board and injuring dozens on the ground
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] Brazil overtakes Russia to become the country with the second highest number of COVID-19 cases, with over 330000 reported. President Jair Bolsonaro continues to dismiss the threat of the virus.
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