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Wednesday, 18 February 2026
1978 Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75. 
1980 Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
1981 Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics
1983 Freddy Martin, orch leader (started Merv Griffin), dies at 76
1984 Ellsworth Bunker, US ambassador (South-Vietnam, dies at 90).
1985 Charles F Richter, US seismologist (scale of R), dies at 85
1986 In this year, US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov.
1987 Alfred Bester, sci-fi author (Dark Side of Earth), dies at 73
1988 Andrei A Gromyko retires.
1988 IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer.
1988 Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at 86.
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii and Ascension
1989 Virgil Thomson, US composer/critic (4 saints in 3 acts), dies at 92.
1990 The USSR and Israel resume diplomatic relations
1990 Liesbeth de Uyl-of Vessem, feminist/wife of Joop du, dies
1991 Haitian President Jean-Bertand Aristide is ousted
1991 Nancy Welford, entertainer, dies at 87.
1993 Alex Lyon, English Labor Lower house leader (1966-83), dies at 61.
1994 Alex Scott, trainer, Horses, dies at 34
1995 Frederick Archibauld Warner, diplomat, dies at 77
1996 Aubrey Brabazon, jockey/trainer, dies at 76.
1997 Male alligator, largest in Florida (14 feet), killed at about 65.
2005 The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
2005 The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
2006 Nangpa La shootings
2006 West Coast Eagles win the Australian Football League Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
2007 Parliamentary re-elections occur in Ukraine after Ukrainian President Victor Yuschenko dismisses Parliament
2009 Sumatra earthquake in Indonesia killing 1115 people
2012 Two opposition Venezuelan politicians are shot dead a week before the presidential election.
2017 Indonesian man survives a fight with giant python 7.8m long in Batang Gansal
2018 In this year, Ryder Cup Golf, Le Golf National: Europe regains Cup with 17½–10½ win over the US; Italian Francesco Molinari claims all 5 matches; Sergio Garcia is recorded as becoming biggest point scorer in event history with 25½
2018 Chinese-French painter Zao Wou-Ki's work "Juin-Octobre 1985" sells for $65 million in Hong Kong, in one of the most expensive art auctions ever in Asia
2019 The Republic of Ireland promises to plant 440 million trees in twenty years to combat climate change.
2023 In this year, Slovak parliamentary election: Smer, under the leadership of former prime minister Robert Fico, claims a plurality of seats in the National Council.October 3 - Elected on 8 January, Kevin McCarthy is removed as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, with Mike Johnson being elected new Speaker on 25 October
