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Monday, 16 February 2026
1989 US plays El Salvador, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup. 
1989 Vladamir Horowitz pianist, dies at 85
1989 Barry Sadler, singer (Green Berets), murdered at 49 in Murfreesboro Tn
1990 Bobby Nunn, US bassist (Coasters-Down in Mexico), dies at about 65
1991 Fred MacMurray actor (My Three Sons), dies at 84
1991 Fred MacMurray, actor (My Three Sons), dies of pneumonia at age 83
1991 Robert Maxwell Billionaire publisher (NY Daily News), dies at 68.
1991 Fred MacMurray, actor (My Three Sons), dies of pneumonia at 83
1992 Arpad E Elo, Hungarian physicist (chess classification system), dies.
1994 McHenry Boatwright, signer, dies at 66.
1995 Laura Weber, TV Host, dies at 70
1996 Eddie Harris, saxophonist/composer, dies at 62
2006 Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and two of his senior allies are sentenced to death by hanging after an Iraqi court finds them guilty of crimes against humanity.
2007 The Writers Guild of America goes on strike
2012 50 Syrian military personnel are killed by a suicide car bomb in Hama
2013 4 people are killed after a 4-story building under construction collapses in Lagos, Nigeria
2014 In this year, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key rules out sending troops to fight against Islamic State, but claims there are 40 NZers on 'terror watchlist'
2017 Shalane Flanagan is recorded as becoming the inaugural American woman to win the New York marathon for 40 years.
2017 Typhoon Damrey strikes Vietnam's south-central coast killing at least 27, leaving others missing
2017 US President Trump begins a 12-day trip to Asia in Toyko, Japan.
2017 Gunman shoots 26 dead and injures 20 at a church in Sunderland Springs, Texas
2017 Paradise Papers are leaked; 13.4 million documents from offshore investment firm Appleby, mentioning Queen Elizabeth and Wilbur Ross US Secretary of Commerce
2017 Bodies of 26 migrant teenage girls recovered from the Mediterranean, another 400 migrants rescued
2017 In this year, The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung publishes 13.4 million documents leaked from the offshore law firm Appleby, along with business registries in 19 tax jurisdictions that reveal offshore financial activities on behalf of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders. The newspaper shared the documents with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and asked it to lead the investigation
2018 Child suicide rate in Japan at 30-year high with 250 taking their lives 2016/17 according to Government Ministry
2018 More than 80 students and teachers kidnapped from a boarding school in Bamenda, Cameroon
2018 BBC opens its largest news bureau outside the UK in Nairobi, Kenya with 300 journalists.
2018 Spice Girls announce a new tour but without Victoria Beckham "Posh Spice"
2018 "Big Brother" reality show has its last episode in the UK on Channel 5, having run since 2000
2018 Taskforce set up to identify and punish LGBT people in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2018 NASA's Voyager 2 probe leaves the solar system, becoming the second human-made object to reach interstellar space.
2019 Actress Emma Watson interviewed in Vogue magazine says she is happy to be single "I call it being self-partnered" launching worldwide discussion on the term.
2019 11000 scientists from around the world publish a study in the journal BioScience, warning "clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency"
2019 Air pollution in parts of India hits record levels
