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Thursday, 19 February 2026
1993 Eric Berry, English/US actor (Pippin, 49th Parallel), dies at 80 
1994 Detlef Macha, German DR cyclist (5x world champ), dies at 35.
1995 Vaclav Neummann, conductor, dies at 74
1996 Cyril Reuben, violinist, dies at 69.
1997 Rudolf Bing, opera manager (NY Met Opera), dies at 95
1998 A Swissair MD-11 jetliner crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia, killing 229 people.
2005 Clashes between protesters and Israeli forces in Bil'in
2006 A Nimrod MR2 based at RAF Kinloss, Scotland, crashes in the Southern Province of Kandahar, Afghanistan, due to a technical fault. All 14 crew on board were killed.
2007 The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation hosts its 19th annual city meeting in Sydney.
2012 A decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters is lifted from State television in Egypt
2018 About 400 prisoners escape a jail near Tripoli in Libya during militia fighting.
2018 Major fire at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro destroys most of its 20 million artifacts
2018 A fire destroys the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro
2019 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatens a snap general election if rebel MPs pass bill against no-deal Brexit.
2019 Sinking of MV Conception: 34 people are killed following a fire and subsequent sinking of a dive boat near Santa Cruz Island, California, United States. It is the worst maritime disaster in California in more than 150 years.
2019 Iranian woman Sahar Khodayari sets herself on fire after being arrested for attending a soccer game in Iran. She dies a week later.
2023 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1, India's inaugural solar observation mission
2024 The Brazilian Supreme Court upholds a decision to block the social media platform X (also known as Twitter) over what the Brazilian government determined to be rampant disinformation and Elon Musk's failure to name a legal representative to the country
