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Friday, 13 February 2026
1974 Haroldson L Hunt, US multi-millionaire, dies at 85. 
1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii.
1975 The Microsoft name appears in writing for the inaugural time, in a letter between Bill Gates and Paul Allen about their new company
1976 Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with Yankees
1976 Godfrey Cambridge, actor (Watermelon Man), dies at 43
1977 George Hamilton Combs, TV host (Through the Curtain), dies at 78
1978 UN observes "international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," boycotted by US andabout 20 other countries.
1978 Alan Richardson, composer, dies at 74
1980 Dorothy Day, author (Stump the Authors), dies at 83
1981 Natalie Wood, actress (West Side Story), drowns at 43 (suicide)
1985 Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager, dies at 71.
1986 Actor Cary Grant died on this day at the age of 82. Grant, one of the most debonair of Hollywood’s leading men, left us with many great cinematic performances
1986 Cary Grant, actor (Charades), dies in Davenport Iowa at 82.
1987 Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul. All 115 lost.
1987 Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55), dies at 81
1989 Ann Burton, [Anna Rafalowicz], singer, dies at 56
1990 UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
1991 Frank Yerby, US writer (Health Card, The Dahomean), dies at 75.
1992 Cary Scott Lowenstein, dancer/singer, dies of AIDS at 30.
1993 JRD Tata, Indies industrialist (Air-India), dies at 89.
1994 Andrew Grove, CEO of Intel Corp., posted a message on an Internet chat group, apologizing for a bug in the recently-released Pentium chip. The problem, inaugural.
1994 Muhammad Ali Araki, ayatollah of Iran, dies
1995 Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro, doctor/social reformer, dies at 79.
1996 The media reported that MTV Networks was demanding fees from online services that linked to their sites.
1996 Volkswagen executive Jose Ignacio Lopez resigned on this day under charges of industrial espionage from General Motors, his former employer
1997 Coleman Young, 1st black mayor of a major city, dies at 79
2000 Thieves steal a helicopter from a building near Manning in Northern Alberta, pushing it outside and taking off
2005 Leo O'Connor and David Keogh appear in court (see O'Connor - Keogh official secrets trial).
2007 The Armed Forces of the Philippines lays siege to The Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny
2012 30 people are killed and 100 are wounded by bombs in Hillah and Karbala, Iraq
2012 The UN General Assembly approves a motion granting Palestine non-member observer state status.
2017 American TV host Matt Lauer is fired from NBC's "Today" show after an allegation of sexual misconduct
2017 Bosnian war criminal Slobodan Praljak commits suicide by poison in court at The Hague after 20 year prison term read out.
2018 Tens of thousands Indian farmers protest the agrarian crisis at parliament in Delhi
