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Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Nov 20 Lee High School bus crash results in the deaths of 4 students in Huntsville, Alabama 
Nov 21 A gas explosion in the coal mine Halemba in Ruda Slaska, Poland, results in the deaths of 23 miners approximately 1000 meters below ground.
Nov 21 Israel's Supreme Court finds that Israel must recognize and register same-gender marriages celebrated in other countries.
Nov 21 Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanon's Minister of Industry, is assassinated in Beirut.
Nov 22 A General Election is held for the House of Keys in the Isle of Man.
Nov 22 In this year, Dutch general election, 2006: The Christian Democratic Appeal claims a plurality of seats in The Netherlands.
Nov 22 Ten people are trapped and killed in the Kolkata leather factory fire in India
Nov 23 A series of car bombs and mortar attacks in Sadr City, Baghdad, kill at least 215 people and injure 257 others
Nov 23 Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian KGB agent, is killed by Polonium-210 in a London sushi bar
Nov 24 Michael Stone is arrested for breaking into the parliament buildings at Stormont while armed. Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair's deadline on Northern Ireland power-sharing.
Nov 25 In this year, Steve Bracks claims the Victorian state election.
Nov 26 US Judge James Robertson orders the US Treasury to change the dollar bill
Nov 28 nov 29 - The NATO Summit 2006 takes place in Latvia.
Nov 30 South Africa is recorded as becoming the fifth nation to legalize gay marriage
Nov 30 Typhoon Durian triggers a massive mudslide and results in the deaths of hundreds of people in the Philippines.
Nov 30 Windows Vista, the newest version of operating system from Microsoft, released for volume license customers.
Dec 01 The 15th Asian Games start in Doha, Qatar; the closing ceremony takes place on dec 15.
Dec 01 Typhoon Durian results in the deaths of at least 388 people in Albay province on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
Dec 02 In Rome, about two million people, led by opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi, demonstrate against Romano Prodi's government.
Dec 02 Stephane Dion is elected the new Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, on the fourth ballot
Dec 03 Ed Stelmach is elected the new Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, Canada, after the second ballot results, and second choice votes for Ted Morton have been added up. Ed is recorded as becoming the Premier-designate of Alberta.
Dec 03 Explosive demolition of Germany's tallest chimney at former Westerholt Power Station.
Dec 09 A fire at a hospital in Moscow results in the deaths of 45 people.
Dec 10 Chivas defeats Toluca in the final of the Mexican Soccer League
Dec 10 Christer Fuglesang is recorded as becoming the inaugural Swede in space.
Dec 10 STS-116: Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center on the inaugural night launch since the 2003 loss of Columbia
Dec 10 The Nobel Prize ceremonies take place in Stockholm and Oslo
Dec 11 The Holocaust conference is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Dec 12 Peugeot produce their last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in a city that was once a major centre of the British motor industry; Coventry.
Dec 13 The Chinese River Dolphin or Baiji is recorded as becoming extinct
Dec 13 U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) suffers a stroke during a radio interview.
Dec 15 An alleged assassination attempt on the Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh sparks inter-Palestinian clashes
Dec 15 Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the King of Bhutan, abdicates in favour of his son Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck a year earlier than expected
Dec 15 Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter successfully flies for the inaugural time
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