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Wednesday, 11 February 2026
1989 Conrad Beck, composer, dies at 88 
1990 Graig Russel, Canadian travel expert/transvestite, dies
1991 Bert Bertram, actor (How to Steal a Million), dies of cancer at 97
1993 Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/art dealer, commits suicide at 52.
1994 John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian, dies at 80.
1995 Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist/teacher, dies at 94
2005 Beginning of the revelation of the 205 Sony CD copy protection scandal.
2005 Infanta Leonor of Spain, daughter of Felipe, Prince of Asturias and his wife Letizia is born
2005 President George W. Bush nominates Federal Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
2007 A bus bomb in the central Russian city of Tolyatti results in the deaths of 8 and injures over 50 people.
2007 In this year, World Economic Forum releases The Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008, at 11:00 CET
2011 UNESCO admitted Palestine as a member, following a vote in which 107 member states supported and 14 opposed.
2011 Date selected by the UN as the symbolic date when global population reaches seven billion.
2017 Two men convicted of raping and inpregnating their 10 year old niece in Chandigarh, India
2017 Judge on Maui, Hawaii orders man to write ex-girlfriend 144 compliments after violating protection order to send 144 nasty text messages.
2017 John Kelly White House Chief of Staff comments in TV interview that “the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War", draws criticism
2017 Terrorist attack in New York when a truck mows down people on a cycle lane, killing 8, injuring 10
2017 Takahiro Shiraishi arrested in Zama, Japan, a day after nine dismembered bodies are discovered in his apartment
2018 In landmark verdict, Pakistani Supreme Court acquits Christian woman of blasphemy against the prophet Mohammed after eight years on death row.
2018 US and Great Britain call for a cease-fire in Saudi-led war in Yemen, in 3-year war that has claimed over 10000 lives and created famine conditions
2018 Worlds biggest statue unveiled of Indian independence leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at 182 meters in Gujarat state
2018 BLACKPINK become the inaugural K-pop girl group to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 with multiple hits.
2019 A fire destroys much of the 500-year-old Japanese Shuri Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
2019 A train catches fire near Rahim Yar Khan in Pakistan. The blaze, sparked by gas used by passengers cooking on board, results in the deaths of at least 74 people
2019 Heavy rain and flooding leave 3 dead and 200000 people are homeless in Beledweyne, Somalia. Meanwhile, 29 are dead and 29000 homeless due to flooding in nearby Kenya.November 2 - Pirates take nine crew members from Norwegian ship MV Bonita, owned by J. J. Ugland, near Cotonou, Benin.
2020 Typhoon Goni makes landfall in the Philippines, becoming the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone in history, displacing hundreds of thousands of people and killing dozens of people in the region
2021 The 2021 Japanese general election is held, with Fumio Kishida and the Liberal Democratic Party along with its coalition partner Komeito retaining a majority government.
2021 The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held, after being postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19. A deal is agreed by world leaders, which includes a "phasedown" of unabated coal power, a 30% cut in methane emissions by 2030, plans for a halt to deforestation by 2030, and increased financial support for developing countries.
2023 Kenyan President William Ruto, holds state banquet for King Charles III in Nairobi, whose speech acknowledges “the wrongdoings of the past are a cause of the greatest sorrow and the deepest regret” [1].
