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Tuesday, 17 February 2026
1987 Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in NYC), dies at 87. 
1990 Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war"
1990 Secretary of State James Baker visits US troops in Saudi Arabia.
1991 Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain.
1992 Regina Carrol, actress (Jessi's Girl), dies of cancer at 49.
1993 Basuki Abdullah, Indonesian painter, murdered at 78.
1994 Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist, dies at 87
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Assassinated
1995 Gilles Deleuze, philosopher, dies at 70
1996 Robert Rapoport, social anthropologist, dies at 72.
1996 Andhra Pradesh cyclone in India killing 1007 people.
1997 George Chambers, PM of Trinidad and Tobago (1981-86), dies
2007 Reformation Sunday is observed by Lutherans and other Protestants around the world, to commemorate the 490th anniversary (oct 31) of the Ninety-Five Theses, which began the Protestant Reformation.
2010 Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board
2012 Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
2014 The US votes in mid-term elections: Republicans retain the house and regain the Senate.
2017 Saudi Arabia arrests 11 princes and other ministers on corruption charges, including billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
2017 Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri steps down in a shock TV broadcast from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, amid concerns he is being forcibly detained.
2017 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara opens in Jakarta with items from the collection of Indonesian tycoon Haryanto Adikoesoemo.
2018 Death toll from week-long storm in Italy rises to 29 with death of nine people in floods in Casteldaccia, Sicily
2018 In this year, Camila Cabello claims four awards at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Bilbao, Janet Jackson accepts the Global Icon award
2018 New Caledonia holds an independence referendum, with 56.4% voting against independence versus 43.6% in favour.
2019 LeBarón family massacre: Nine Americans are killed when Mexican gang members open fire on their vehicles while driving to a wedding about 70 miles (110 km) south of the Mexico–United States border
2019 Amnesty International alleges that Bangladesh killed 466 people in 2018 under the guise of an anti-drugs campaign in what appears to be a wave of extrajudicial executions.
2019 The United States formally begins process to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change
2020 The United States formally exits the Paris Agreement on climate change
2025 22nd known lethal US military strike in international waters of suspected drug smuggling vessel results in the deaths of four in the eastern Pacific Ocean
2025 Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves more than 288 people dead in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand.
2025 UPS Airlines Flight 2976, a Honolulu-bound McDonnell Douglas MD-11F, crashes shortly after take-off near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky, United States, killing all three crew members and 11 people on the ground, as well as injuring 23 others.
