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Sunday, 15 February 2026
Jan 22 The Galileo probe plunges into Jupiter's atmosphere and finds it windier and drier than expected, with less helium and less lightning 
Jan 23 Chris Cairns scores 120, 96 balls, 10x4, 9x6 in Test New Zealand vs Zimbabwe.
Jan 23 General Electric threw in the towel in the struggle to keep its Genie online service competitive in the growing battle with the Web. The company announced it would sell the service to Yovelle Renaissance Corporation, which would turn Genie into a Web site.
Jan 23 John Mackin, programmer, dies at 36
Jan 24 Sandor Iharos, athlete, dies at 65.
Jan 25 Jonathan Larson, composer, dead Aortic aneurysm at 35.
Jan 25 Leilani Muir awarded $750000 by Alberta judge; she was wrongly diagnosed as mentally disabled and sterilized by the province's Eugenics Board in 1959.
Jan 26 "Les Miserables," opens at Musichall Theatre, Duisburg
Jan 26 David Schultz, wrestler (Oly-Gold-84), killed by John Du Pont.
Jan 27 15 day old siamese twins separated-Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies.
Jan 27 70th Australian Open Women's Tennis Monica Seles beats Anke Huber (64 61).
Jan 27 Barbara Skelton, writer, dies at 79.
Jan 27 Catherine Roskam is recorded as becoming the inaugural New York female Episcopal bishop
Jan 27 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island.
Jan 27 Germany celebrates its inaugural Holocaust Remembrance Day
Jan 27 Shiv Chanderpaul scores 303* for Guyana vs Jamaica at Kingston
Jan 29 23rd American Music Award Garth Brooks claims.
Jan 29 6138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line".
Jan 29 Jack Sutherland, journalist, dies at 79
Jan 29 Last day of Test cricket for David Boon
Jan 29 Timmins, Ontario's Shania Twain named best new country artist at the American Music Awards.
Jan 30 Bob Thiele, record producer, dies at 73.
Jan 31 Gustave Solomon, mathematician, dies at 65
Feb 01 Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index breaks through the symbolic 5000 mark for the inaugural time, our Dow Jones.
Feb 02 Actor and dancer Gene Kelly dies at his Beverly Hills, California, home at age 83.
Feb 02 Ali Landry, 22, (Louisiana), crowned 45th Miss USA.
Feb 03 Audrey Meadows, actress (Alice-Honeymooners), dies at 69
Feb 06 Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence.
Feb 07 George Lowthian Trevelyan, designer/visionary, dies at 89
Feb 08 US bookstore chain Borders says it will invest in a chain of bookstores in Canada; Ottawa will block the plan under the cultural exemption of NAFTA
Feb 09 Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe), dies at 83
Feb 10 Hugh Francis Lamprey, ecologist, dies at 67
Feb 10 IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov
Feb 10 Minneapolis, Minnesota Timmins country singer Shania Twain draws a crowd of up to 20000 fans for an autograph session at the giant Mall of America
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