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Friday, 13 February 2026
1993 Bert Schoofs, table tennis star, dies at 48 
1994 Martha Raye, actress (Pin Up Girl), dies after illness at 78.
1995 Don E Cherry, jazz Musician, dies at 58
1996 Frank Neville Hosband Robinson, physicist, dies at 71.
1997 Glen Buxton, guitarist (Alice Cooper), dies of pneumonia at 49
2005 Hurricane Wilma swells into a Category 5 storm
2005 The Houston Astros won their inaugural National League Championship to advance to their inaugural ever World Series in franchise history
2005 The Trials of Saddam Hussein begin.
2006 On the 19th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 12000 for the inaugural time gaining 19.05 points, or 0.16%, to 12011.73
2007 A gas explosion rocked Glorietta, a shopping mall in Makati, Philippines which killed 11 and injured more than 100 people
2012 8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon.
2013 16 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a suicide bombing Beledweyne, Somalia.
2014 A working human intestine is generated in a laboratory from stem cells in the United States.
2017 New Zealand Labour Party forms a coalition government led by Jacinda Ardern (37), youngest NZ leader in 161 years.
2017 Outbreak of the Marburg virus declared by Uganda's Ministry of Health.
2018 "Halloween" film reboot starring Jamie Curtis makes a record $77m for a horror film with a female lead, biggest debut any film with female lead over 55 in US
2018 At least 59 people are killed and at least 100 injured when a train runs through a crowd at a Hindu festival in Punjab, India
2018 The unmanned European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo is launched on a seven-year journey to Mercury.
2019 An estimated one million people march through London in a protest organised by People's Vote, to demand a second referendum on Brexit.
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 40 million worldwide.
2024 39th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Mary J. Blige ; Cher; Dave Matthews Band; Foreigner; Peter Frampton; Kool and The Gang; Ozzy Osbourne ; A Tribe Called Quest; Alexis Korner; John Mayall; Big Mama Thornton; Jimmy Buffett; MC5; Dionne Warwick ; and Norman Whitfield
2025 In this year, 2025 Bolivian general election: Rodrigo Paz claims the presidential election in a runoff against former President Jorge Quiroga. Incumbent party MAS-IPSP loses all their seats in the Senate and all but two seats in the Chamber of Deputies
2025 2025 Louvre heist: Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are stolen during a robbery from the Galerie d'Apollon of the Louvre in Paris.
