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Thursday, 19 February 2026
1969 Marion Lloyd Vince, fencer (National champ 1928, 31), dies at 63. 
1970 Richard Cushing, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 75
1971 Martha Vickers, actress (Alimony), dies after long illness at 46.
1976 Former Georgia Gov Jimmy Carter (D) defeats incumbent Gerald R Ford (R) in race for Presidency
1976 Jimmy Carter elected as the (38th) US President.
1977 H E Nossak, writer, dies at 76
1978 Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31.
1980 Edith Bunker, character on "All in the Family", dies.
1982 Lester Roloff, Man of God, preacher.
1983 President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L King day
1984 Margie V Barfield, US murderer, 1st woman electricuted in 22 years.
1986 Following intervention of Terry Waite, US hostage David Jacobsen is fred in Beirut after 18 months imprisonment
1986 Paul Frees, cartoon voice (Boris Badenov), dies at 66
1988 Computer virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab and 6 universities.
1988 In this year, Shamir Likud claims election in Israel.
1991 Fran Stevens, singer, dies of cancer in Bronx NY at 72.
1992 Hal Roach, producer (Keystone Kops), dies of pneumonia at 100.
1993 P A Jacob Mees, Dutch banker (Mees and Hope), dies at about 86.
1994 David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37.
1995 Alun Edward Islwyn Pask, rugby International, dies at 58.
1996 Ontario L'Orignal Railway (RailTex) commences operation over the former CN line between Glen Robertson, Hawkesbury and L'Orignal, Ont.
1996 Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Colombian politician, dies
1997 G Harry Stine, writer, dies at 69
1998 Quebec Gatineau Railway commences operation over the CN Montfort Spur between Mirabel and Saint-Jerome, QC. Access to the CN network is continued through an interchange agreement between CN, OGRY and St.L and H
1999 "Saving Private Ryan" becomse the inaugural major Spielberg movie to be released on DVD
2005 Madrid: the Spanish Congress of Deputies approves the admission to formality of the new Catalan Statute of Autonomy with the support of all the groups except the People's Party (PP) that the same day filed an objection of unconstitutionality.
2005 Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach
2007 Four firefighters feared dead in the 2007 Atherstone fire disaster
2014 60 people were killed and 110 injured by a suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan.
2017 On This Day and Xiaomi launch a content partnership to display today in history content in Xiaomi's calendar app to users in India.
2017 Jerome Powell nominated by US President Trump to be next Chair of the Federal Reserve
2017 A new species of orangutan is identified in Indonesia, becoming the third known species of orangutan as well as the inaugural great ape to be described for almost a century.
2018 Tiger thought to have killed 13 people shot dead after month-long hunt near Pandharkawada, central India
2020 Johnny Depp loses libel case against UK newspaper "The Sun", which called him a "wife-beater", said he assaulted wife Amber Heard.
