This Day In History
1969 - Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
1974 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes in the Ermenonville Forest outside Paris, killing all 346 people onboard
1977 - Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms
1980 - France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1980 - 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus is decommissioned.
1980 - Pierre Trudeau sworn in, for the second time, as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada
1989 - Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for Iran-Contra.
1991 - Iraqi generals and US general "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf meet to discuss Gulf War cease fire
1991 - Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR
1991 - Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
1991 - United Airlines 737 crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
1992 - Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 263 die
1992 - Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina established.
1997 - The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-ahalf years of construction.
1998 - Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee about Microsoft's dominant position in the software industry
2002 - Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
2002 - 33rd NAACP Image Awards: "Ali" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
2005 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops without refueling - a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes.
2009 - The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for a Test match against Pakistan.
2013 - 45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan
2015- "Under the Dome" a documentary on pollution in China by Chai Jing has been viewed over 150 million times in 3 days on Tencent
2017- Mass grave of 800 children and infants confirmed at a former Catholic care home in Tuam, Ireland
2018- Brian Ortega becomes the first man to finish Frankie Edgar in MMA at UFC 222, earning Performance of the Night
2019- Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika confirms he will run for president one last time, his 5th term, amid widespread demonstrations 2019- SpaceX's Dragon capsule successfully docks with the International Space Station during its demonstration run
2020- Iran releases 54,000 people from prison to avoid spread of COVID-19 as country reports 77 deaths and 2,300 cases including two dozen MPs
2020- Irishwomen Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamar, of Grafton Architecture, are the 1st women to share the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2020- Last Ebola patient discharged from hospital in Beni, DR Congo, raising hopes outbreak at an end in the country after 2,300 deaths
2020- Super Tuesday: Biggest voting day for Democrats selecting their presidential candidate revives Joe Biden's campaign, he wins nine states, while Bernie Sanders wins four including California
2020- UK had its wettest February since records began in 1862, according to the Met Office, 209.1mm of rainfall, 237% above average