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Friday, 13 February 2026
Jan 25 Actress Ava Gardner dies in London at age 67. 
Jan 25 Alexander Lockwood, actor (Duel), dies
Jan 25 Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die.
Jan 25 Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
Jan 25 Seventy-three people are killed when an Avianca 707 jet crashes after running out of fuel in Cove Neck, New York.
Jan 25 West-Europe's strongest hurricane.
Jan 26 Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica and South Atlantic.
Jan 26 FHP "Boy" Trip, Dutch minister, dies
Jan 27 Dissolution of Polish communist party.
Jan 27 Four top aides of executed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu go on trial in Romania, charged with genocide.
Jan 27 Helen Jerome Eddy, actress (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 92.
Jan 28 "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London.
Jan 28 East German agreement to form all-party government
Jan 29 Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill.
Jan 29 Former Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial in Anchorage, Alaska, on charges arising from worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Jan 29 IN Ottawa Ray Hnatyshyn sworn in as Canada's 24th Governor General
Jan 30 Canada's Finance Minister Michael Wilson gets the 7% Goods and Services Tax bill through inaugural reading in the Commons, and we still hate it.
Jan 30 In Ottawa the CBC President Gerard Veilleux announces 500 jobs to be cut at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation over the next year
Jan 31 George Cohon, head of Canadian franchise subsidiary opens inaugural McDonald's fast-food restaurant in Pushkin Square, the world's biggest McDonald's Moscow Russia
Jan 31 McDonald's opens its inaugural fast-food restaurant in Moscow
Jan 31 The inaugural ever all-sports daily "The National" begins publishing
Feb 01 CN Rail commences cabooseless train operations.
Feb 02 Marina Ogilvy (daughter of English princess Alexandra) weds Paul Mowatt.
Feb 02 South Africa's President F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela and legalizes African National Congress and 60 other political organizations
Feb 02 South African President F.W. de Klerk promises to free imprisoned political prisoner Nelson Mandela and lifts a ban on black membership in the African National Congress
Feb 04 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo.
Feb 07 Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies.
Feb 07 Hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil spill off the California coast near Huntington Beach, from the tanker, American Trader.
Feb 07 Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
Feb 07 The Soviet Communist Party leadership agrees to surrender its 70-year monopoly on power, paving the way for a multi-party democracy
Feb 07 USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties.
Feb 08 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
Feb 08 Del Shannon, rock vocalist (Runaway), shoots self at 50.
Feb 09 "The Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
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