February 26

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February 26 in recent years

2008 (Tuesday)

2007 (Monday)

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February 26 is the Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[" days remaining until the end of the year (Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[" in leap years).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
- 4.1 Liturgical feasts
5 External links

[edit] Events

747 BC - Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era.
364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
1266 - Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
1794 - Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down.
1797 - The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1848 - The second French Republic is proclaimed.
1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the National Banking Act into law.
1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway opens.
1885 - The Berlin Act, which resulted from the Berlin Conference regulating European colonization and trade in Africa, was signed
1887 - At the SCG, George Lohmann becomes the first bowler to take eight wickets in a Test innings.
1897 - Sigma Pi Fraternity, International was founded at Vincennes University.
1917 - The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first ever jazz record for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
1919 - An act of the U.S. Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).
1929 - The Grand Teton National Park is created.
1935 - The Luftwaffe is reformed.
1935 - The Daventry Experiment, Robert Watson-Watt carried out a demonstration near Daventry which led directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.
1936 - In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
1952 - United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb.
1966 - Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
1970 - National Public Radio incorporates as a non-profit corporation.
1971 - Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1972 - Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
1984 - US troops withdraw from Beirut. President Ronald Reagan had sent the troops as a peacekeeping force in August 1982.
1986 - People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1987 - Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes American President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
1990 - The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections.
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.
1991 - Gulf War: On Baghdad Radio Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait.

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The aftermath of the World Trade Center bombing.

1993 - World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.
1995 - The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
2001 - The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
2004 - The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.
2004 - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2005 - Hosni Mubarak the president of Egypt orders the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 2005 by asking Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76 of the constitution.

[edit] Births

1361 - Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
1564 - Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist (d. 1593)
1587 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (d. 1639)
1671 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713)
1672 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757)
1714 - James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (d. 1758)
1715 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (d. 1771)
1720 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1803)
1746 - Archduchess Marie Amalie of Austria, duchess of Piacenza (d. 1806)
1749 - Jeremy Bentham, English jurist (d. 1832)
1786 - François Arago, French mathematician (d. 1853)
1799 - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864)
1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
1808 - Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 1879)
1814 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (d. 1876)
1829 - Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
1846 - William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American pioneer, officer, and hunter (d. 1917)
1852 - John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon, advocate of dietary reform (d. 1943 )
1857 - Émile Coué, French psychologist (d. 1926)
1858 - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (d. 1917)
1861 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
1861 - Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary, Lenin's wife (d. 1939)
1879 - Frank Bridge, English composer (d. 1941)
1882 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
1885 - Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
1887 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (d. 1950)
1887 - William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
1893 - I. A. Richards, English literary critic (d. 1979)
1899 - Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)
1902 - Jean Bruller, alias Vercors, French writer and illustrator (d. 1991)
1903 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1906 - Madeleine Carroll, English actress (d. 1987)
1907 - Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
1908 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
1909 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
1909 - Fanny Cradock, English food writer and broadcaster (d. 1994)
1911 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (d. 1996)
1912 - Dane Clark, American actor (d. 1998)
1914 - Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
1916 - Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer, and comedian (d. 1987)
1918 - Otis Ray Bowen, American politician and physician
1918 - Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)
1919 - Mason Adams, American actor (d. 2005)
1919 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (d. 2003)
1920 - Danny Gardella, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1920 - Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
1920 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (d. 2006)
1921 - Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1922 - Margaret Leighton, British actress (d. 1976)
1926 - Miroslava Stern, Mexican actress (d. 1955)
1927 - Tom Kennedy, American game show host
1928 - Fats Domino, American musician
1928 - Anatoli Filipchenko, Soviet cosmonaut
1928 - Monique Leyrac, French Canadian singer and actress
1930 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (d. 2005)
1931 - Ally McLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004)
1932 - Johnny Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
1934 - Robert Novak, American political columnist
1937 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer (d. 1997)
1938 - Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (d. 1957)
1939 - Josephine Tewson, English actress
1941 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
1943 - Bill Duke, American actor and director
1945 - Peter Brock, Australian motorsports champion (d. 2006)
1945 - Bob Hite, American singer and harmonicist (Canned Heat) (d. 1981)
1945 - Giannis Ioannidis, Greek basketball coach and politician
1945 - Marta Kristen, Norwegian actress
1945 - Mitch Ryder, American musician (The Detroit Wheels)
1946 - Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel laureate
1947 - Sandie Shaw, English singer
1949 - Emma Kirkby, British early music singer
1950 - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
1951 - Lee Atwater, American political operative (d. 1991)
1953 - Michael Bolton, American singer
1954 - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey
1956 - Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer
1957 - David Muldrow Beasley, American politician
1957 - Joe Mullen, American ice hockey player
1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist
1959 - Rolando Blackman, American basketball player
1960 - Jaz Coleman, British musician
1962 - Greg Germann, American actor
1966 - Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer
1968 - Ed Quinn, American Actor
1968 - J.T. Snow, American baseball player
1969 - Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer
1971 - Erykah Badu, American singer
1971 - Max Martin, Swedish composer and producer
1971 - Hélène Ségara, French singer
1973 - Marshall Faulk, American football player
1973 - Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian footballer
1973 - Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
1974 - Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver
1976 - Nikolaos Siranidis, Greek diver
1977 - Marty Reasoner, American ice hockey player
1977 - Shane Williams, Welsh International Rugby Player
1977 - Josh Towers, American baseball player
1978 - Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye, Senegalese footballer
1978 - Marc Hynes, British racing driver
1978 - John Tartaglia, Broadway performer and "Muppeteer"
1979 - Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer
1979 - Mariano Bainotti, Argentine racing driver
1979 - Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer
1980 - Alex Fong, Hong Kong singer
1980 - Gary Majewski, American baseball player
1980 - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer
1981 - Kertus Davis, American NASCAR driver
1981 - Johnathan Wendel, American professional video gamer
1982 - Song Hye Kyo, South Korean model and actress
1983 - Kara Monaco, American model
1983 - Varick Pyr, Hip-Hop artist
1984 - Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer
1984 - Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer
1985 - Alexandria Hilfiger, American actress, daughter of Tommy Hilfiger
1986 - Crystal Kay, Japanese singer
1987 - Julia Bond, American adult actress
1993 - Taylor Dooley, American actress

[edit] Deaths

1154 - King Roger II of Sicily (b. 1093)
1200 - Symeon, former Serbian ruler and saint
1266 - King Manfred of Sicily
1360 - Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328)
1525 - Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler
1552 - Heinrich Faber, German composer
1561 - Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish writer
1577 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)
1608 - John Still, English bishop
1630 - William Brade, English composer (b. 1560)
1638 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (b. 1681)
1723 - Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
1726 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)
1770 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (b. 1692)
1802 - Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (b. 1718)
1813 - Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746)
1815 - Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (b. 1737)
1821 - Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard diplomat and writer (b. 1753)
1864 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (b. 1807)
1883 - Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
1889 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (b. 1838)
1903 - Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818)
1913 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
1921 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)
1931 - Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1847)
1933 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1853)
1947 - Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (b. 1868)
1950 - Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish Music Hall Entertainer, Knighted for WWI War Work (b. 1870)
1961 - King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
1966 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter and writer (b. 1883)
1969 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
1969 - Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist (b. 1883)
1971 - Fernandel, French actor (b. 1903)
1981 - Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)
1981 - Robert Aickman, English writer and conservationist (b. 1914)
1985 - Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1989 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)
1990 - Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1938)
1993 - Constance Ford, American actress (b. 1923)
1994 - Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
1995 - Jack Clayton, British film director (b. 1921)
1997 - David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)
1998 - Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
2000 - George L. Street III American Navy Submariner (b. 1913)
2001 - Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (b. 1906)
2001 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricket player (b. 1908)
2002 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
2003 - Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
2004 - Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (b. 1920)
2004 - Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)
2004 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)
2005 - Jef Raskin, American computer scientist (b. 1943)

[edit] Holidays and observances

Bahá'í Faith - February 26, Day 1 of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) - days in the Bahá'í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
Nation of Islam - Savior's Day - commemoration of the birthdate of Wallace Fard Muhammad, believed to be Allah in human form, the saviour of the black race.
Liberation Day in Kuwait (1991).