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Friday, 13 February 2026
1978 Dan Dailey, dancer/actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor and JJ), dies at 63. 
1980 Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83.
1981 Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66.
1982 Mt Palomar Observatory inaugural to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
1982 Jacov Gotovac, composer, dies at 86
1983 George Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show), dies at 72.
1984 Bishop Desmond Tutu awarded the Nobel peace prize.
1984 In this year, Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, claims the Nobel Peace Prize
1984 Ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84
1985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip(more power more power!!).
1985 Claude Stroud, actor (Hobart-Ted Knight Show, Duke), dies at 78.
1986 US govt closes down due to budget problems
1986 Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist, dies at 65
1987 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England
1987 Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22 feet into a well shaft
1987 Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75.
1989 Cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), dies at 74.
1990 US forces reach 200000 in the Persian Gulf
1990 Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71
1991 George Jo Hennard, 35, results in the deaths of 23 and himself and wounds 20 in Texas.
2005 U.S. Helicopters and warplanes bomb two villages near Ramadi in western Iraq, killing about 70 people.
2006 The last MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) was decommissioned.
2011 2011 Nikki Reed weds Paul McDonald in Malibu
2012 Conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria, leads to 24 militant deaths and several structures set ablaze.
2013 21 people are killed after a minibus hits a land mine in Nawa, Syria.
2014 New Zealand, Malaysia, Angola, Spain and Venezuela are elected to the United Nations Security Council
2017 Iraqi army seizes control of oil-rich Kirkuk, from Kurdish peshmerga.
2017 Storm formed from Hurricane Ophelia lashes Ireland, killing 3 people.
2017 Findings published of neutron star collision (17 August), the inaugural cosmic event seen in gravitational waves and light. Confirms heavy elements such as gold the result of such collisions.
2017 Panama Papers Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia killed in a suspicious car bomb in Malta.
2018 Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman denies knowledge of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi according to President Trump
2018 Man Booker Prize is won by Anna Burns' "Milkman", the inaugural winner from Northern Ireland
2018 Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex begin their inaugural royal tour visiting Australia and New Zealand
2018 Chairman of China's Xinjiang’s government defends its detention camps for Uighur Muslims saying they provided “vocational education and trainingâ€.
