This Day One Year Ago in 2023

[Dave]

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February 14th. At least 73 migrants are missing and presumed dead after their boat sank off the Libyan coast, according to the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM). Only seven people survived Tuesday's shipwreck but are in "extremely dire conditions" in hospital.

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February 15th : The first ever satellite mission from the UK failed to launch last month because a rocket fuel filter had become dislodged, Virgin Orbit says.

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February 16th. Mikaela Shiffrin won the gold medal in the women’s giant slalom on Thursday to become the most successful skier in the modern history of the Alpine world championships.

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February 17th : Qatar's Sheikh Jassim and Ineos make bids for Premier League club Manchester United

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February 18th. Footballer Christian Atsu has been found dead under the rubble of his home almost two weeks after the Turkey earthquake, his agent has confirmed. The Ghana international, 31, had spells with Premier League sides Everton, Chelsea and Newcastle. Atsu had been missing since the 6 February quake that caused the collapse of his apartment in Antakya, Hatay.

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February 19th : Police searching for missing Nicola Bulley have found a body in the river. The mother-of two disappeared during a riverside dog walk in St Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire three weeks ago, sparking a major search operation.

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February 20th. Rescuers are once again searching for people trapped under rubble in Turkey after another earthquake hit the country, killing at least six people. A 6.4 magnitude tremor struck near the city of Antakya near the border with Syria, where massive quakes devastated both countries on 6 February. The earlier quakes killed 44,000 people in Turkey and Syria with tens of thousands more left homeless.

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February 21st : The last person to see a four-year-old girl before she was murdered has spoken publicly about it for the first time in 84 years.
Joyce Cox was abducted on her way home from her aunt's house in Cardiff on 28 September 1939.

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I found the above story both interesting and moving and have since watched a program that is available on the BBC iPlayer that examined the case about a year ago.

It is available to watch here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... -came-home (UK only). At the moment it is available for at least another year.

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February 22nd. An international team of astrophysicists has found six candidate galaxies hiding in data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that are so old and massive they can’t be explained by current cosmological models.

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February 23rd : Legendary commentator John Motson, who had an illustrious 50-year career with the BBC, has died aged 77. Motson covered 10 World Cups, 10 European Championships and 29 FA Cup finals for BBC Sport before retiring from the organisation in 2018.

The video below, plus others, is only available by using the embedded link in the text above

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February 24th. Roald Dahl's books are to be printed in their original form, following criticism of the decision to amend novels including The BFG, making them more suitable for modern audiences.

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February 25th : On 23 February 2022, Yároslav told his friends he would play football with them at school the next day. It never happened. In a few hours, the 13-year-old Ukrainian's simple plan became the impossible. Overnight, Ukraine was invaded by Russia and now Yároslav has no idea when he will ever kick a ball with his friends again.

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February 26th. At least 59 migrants, including 12 children, have died and dozens more are feared missing after their boat sank in rough seas off southern Italy. The vessel broke apart while trying to land near Crotone on Sunday. Migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Iran were on board.

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February 27th : Football spectators fight at Denbigh and Bangor 1876 game. It happened at a game in the Ardal North West League - the third tier of football in Wales.

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February 28th. FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed the agency's conclusion that the COVID pandemic was probably the result of a lab leak in Wuhan, China.
Commenting for the first time on Tuesday about the FBI's judgment, Wray reiterated his agency's initial findings from 2021, adding that the Chinese government has allegedly worked to undermine the damning results.