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Monday, 23 February 2026
1997 Jan Peder Syse, PM of Norway (1989-90), dies. 
2005 Helen Clark, leader of the Labour Party is re-elected for a third term in the New Zealand general election.
2006 In this year, The Alliance for Sweden claims victory in the Swedish general election, 2006.
2011 Occupy Wall Street protests begin in the United States. This develops into the Occupy movement which spreads to 82 countries by October.
2011 Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zucotti Park, New York City.
2012 Panasonic suspends operations at its three factories in China.
2013 6 people are killed after a train and double-decker bus collide in Ottawa, Canada.
2014 In this year, Voreqe Bainimarama's Fiji inaugural Party claims the inaugural Fijian elections since his coup in 2006.
2017 Wanda Metropolitano stadium, new home of football team Atlético Madrid hosts its 1st match (against Malaga) in Madrid, Spain
2018 Flooding in Nigeria results in the deaths of over 100 people as Benue and Niger Rivers overflow
2018 50 girls treated in hospital in Kaya, Burkina Faso after illegal botched circumcisions.
2018 US border control agent confesses to the murder of four women and assault of another in Laredo, Texas.
2018 Needles purposely hidden in strawberries in Australia prompt government to order an investigation
2018 Hurricane Florence has caused 900 people to be rescued from flooding, death toll at 23, city of Wilmington isolated officials announce
2019 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg tells US Congress "I know you are trying but just not hard enough. Sorry.â€
2019 Israel holds legislative elections for the second time in 2019, after the 21st Knesset voted to dissolve itself due to Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to cobble a parliamentary coalition
2020 Barbados announces its intention to remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and become a republic
2020 In this year, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom issue a joint note verbale to the United Nations rejecting China's claims to the South China Sea, and supporting the ruling in Philippines v. China that said the historic rights per the nine-dash line ran counter to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. However the statement says that on "territorial sovereignty" they "take no position"
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 30 million worldwide.
2023 British comedian Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse by four women in investigation by "The Sunday Times" and Channel 4 [1].
2024 Thirty-two people are killed and more than 3200 are injured after pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah militants and medics explode in two massive cyberattacks. Israel is the presumed perpetrator
2025 26th US military lethal strike in international waters of a suspected drug smuggling vessel results in the deaths of four.
2025 Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years are are discovered on a mountain in Stelvio National Park in northern Italy [1].
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