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Wednesday, 18 February 2026
Jan 01 5% sales tax on consumer goods and services comes into force in USSR 
Jan 01 Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosi Mubarak.
Jan 02 Renato Rascel, actor (7 Hills of Rome), dies of heart failure at 78.
Jan 03 Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years.
Jan 03 Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders.
Jan 04 AT"T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable everyone wonders what happened
Jan 04 Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78
Jan 04 Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th.
Jan 04 Jan Krzystof Bielecki is recorded as becoming premier of Poland
Jan 05 John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82
Jan 06 Ada Moore, entertainer, dies of cancer at 64
Jan 06 Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 seconds).
Jan 07 Haiti coup defeated
Jan 07 Soviet paratroopers sent to Baltic Republics.
Jan 07 The TV series Blossom debuts.
Jan 08 Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame
Jan 09 Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis.
Jan 09 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame.
Jan 10 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
Jan 10 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
Jan 11 Ben Johnson inaugural race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd
Jan 11 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq.
Jan 11 In this year, Ric Flair claims NWA/WCW wrestling title
Jan 11 Jason Christmas, dies of gunshot wound during robbery in NY at 49.
Jan 11 Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence.
Jan 12 Congress gives the go-ahead to U.S. military action against Iraq in Operation Desert Storm.
Jan 12 Key Luke, movie and TV actor best known as "Number One Son" in numerous Charlie Chan movies, dies of a stroke at age 86.
Jan 12 Keye Luke, actor (Charlie Chan's No 1 Son), dies after a stroke at 86.
Jan 12 Melvin Stewart swims world record 200 meter butterfly (1 55.69)
Jan 12 US Congress authorises military strikes against Iraq, for its invasion of Kuwait
Jan 13 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa.
Jan 13 President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected
Jan 13 Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die.
Jan 13 UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad
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