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Tuesday, 17 February 2026
1994 John William Stevens, jazz drummer, dies at 54 
1995 Francesco Messina, sculptor, dies at 94
1996 Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian, dies at 68.
1998 Former Alabama Governor George Wallace dies at age 79
2006 The Dawson College Shooting occurs in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, leaving one student dead and 19 others injured.
2006 The solar system's largest dwarf planet, designated until now as 2003 UB313, is officially named "Eris"; its satellite is now known as "Dysnomia"
2007 The Burj Dubai became the world's tallest free standing structure after surpassing the CN Tower in Toronto
2012 19 people are killed after a freight elevator crashes from 100 meters in Wuhan, China
2013 30 people are killed by a mosque bombing attack in Baghdad, Iraq
2014 At least 8 people are killed after the ferry MV Maharlika II sinks off the Philippines coast
2017 Nursing home inhabitants rescued after losing their air-conditioning in aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Hollywood, Florida, 11 die.
2017 International Olympic Committee announces Paris (2024) and Los Angeles (2028) will host the Olympic games
2017 UN Secretary-General António Guterres says Rohingya refugee crisis now "catastrophic" as 370000 confirmed to have fled Myanmar.
2017 Actress Rebel Wilson awarded $4.56 million in damages in libel case against Bauer Media in Melbourne, largest defamation payout in Australia.
2017 Martin Shkreli's bail revoked after he judged risk to community for posting $5000 bounty for a strand of Hillary Clinton 's hair.
2017 The International Olympic Committee awards Paris and Los Angeles the right to host the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics, respectively
2018 Islamic extremism by 121 groups caused 84000 deaths in 2017 according to report by Global Extremist Monitor presented by Tony Blair.
2018 Pope Francis meets with leaders of the American Catholic Church in Rome to discuss sexual abuse
2018 Spanish parliament votes to exhume former dictator Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen.
2018 Nearly 40% (36.6%) of all female suicides occur in India according to report published in "The Lancet".
2018 Amazon live streams “Thursday Night Football†Cincinnati beats Baltimore 34-23; inaugural all-female broadcast booth in NFL history; Andrea Kremer calls game with Hannah Storm
2021 Nicki Minaj tweets misinformation about vaccines making men impotent, forcing prominent officials to publicly debunk it, including Antony Fauci and the Health Minister of Trinidad.
2021 Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of the main Malaysian opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan, sign a confidence and supply agreement ending the 18-month political crisis that has led to the fall of two successive governments in Malaysia.
2021 The 2021 Norwegian parliamentary election is held.
2023 North Korea's Kim Jong Un meets with Vladimir Putin at the Vostochny space centre, eastern Russia in suspected arms deal [1]
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