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February 26

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February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 308 days remaining, 309 in leap years.

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Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

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Events

747 BC - Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era.
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.
1797 - The Bank of England issues the first one pound note.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1848 - The second French Republic is proclaimed.
1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the National Currency Act into law.
1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway opens.
1887 - At the SCG, George Lohmann becomes the first bowler to take eight wickets in a Test innings.
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 - Robert Watson-Watt gives the first public demonstration of RADAR.
1936 - In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
1944 - Shooting begins of the Nazi propaganda film, "The Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in Theresienstadt.
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.
1986 - Robert Penn Warren is named poet laureate of the United States.
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.
1992 - Xocali slaughter. More than 600 people of the town of Xocali, Azerbaijan, are killed by Armenian forces during war in Karabakh.
1993 - World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van 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 gambling on the Singapore Monetary Exchange Simex with derivative securities.
2001 - The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
2004 - The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.
2005 - Hosni Mubarak the president of Egypt ordered the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 2005 by asking Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76 of the constitution.

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Births

1361 - Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
1802 - Victor Hugo, French poet (d. 1885)
1808 - Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, lithograph and sculptor (d. 1879)
1829 - Levi Strauss, clothing designer (d. 1902)
1846 - Buffalo Bill, American pioneer and officer, hunter and carny (d. 1917)
1861 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
1875 - Hans Böckler, unionist and politician (d. 1951)
1879 - Frank Bridge, English composer (d. 1941)
1885 - Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
1887 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1950)
1887 - William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
1893 - I. A. Richards, literary critic (d. 1979)
1902 - Albert Anastasia, Mafia boss (d. 1957)
1907 - Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
1908 - Tex Avery, cartoonist (d. 1980)
1908 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, race car driver (d. 1949)
1909 - King Talal, King of Jordan (d. 1972)
1914 - Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
1916 - Jackie Gleason, actor, writer, composer, comedian (d. 1987)
1918 - Theodore Sturgeon, science fiction writer (d. 1985)
1919 - Mason Adams, American actor
1920 - Tony Randall, actor (The Odd Couple) (d. 2004)
1921 - Betty Hutton, American actress
1927 - Tom Kennedy, American game show host
1928 - Fats Domino, musician
1928 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
1932 - Johnny Cash, country music singer (d. 2003)
1933 - Godfrey Cambridge, actor (d. 1976)
1934 - Robert Novak, American political columnist
1941 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
1943 - Bill Duke, American actor, director
1945 - Marta Kristen, Norwegian actress
1946 - Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 - Sandie Shaw, British singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner
1950 - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
1951 - Lee Atwater, American political operative (d. 1991)
1954 - Michael Bolton, singer
1956 - Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer
1957 - Besim Hasani, President of Kosova Olimpic Committee
1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist
1959 - Rolando Blackman, basketball star
1962 - Greg Germann, actor
1971 - Erykah Badu, singer
1973 - Marshall Faulk, American football star
1973 - Jenny Thompson, U.S. Olympic swimmer
1974 - Sébastien Loeb, French WRC driver
1984 - Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican pop singer

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Deaths

1266 - King Manfred of Sicily
1813 - Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746)
1903 - Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor (b. 1818)
1913 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
1921 - Carl Menger, economist (b. 1840)
1931 - Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
1961 - King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
1969 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
1971 - Fernandel, actor (b. 1903)
1981 - Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)
1993 - Constance Ford, American actress
1994 - Bill Hicks, comedian (b. 1961)
1997 - David Doyle, American actor
2002 - Lawrence Tierney, actor
2003 - Gerhard Czerwensky, economist
2004 - Shankarrao Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
2004 - Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general
2004 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)
2005 - Jef Raskin, computer scientist (b. 1943)

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Holidays and observances

Bahá'í Faith - Day 1 of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) - days in the Bah&aacute'&iacute calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
Nation of Islam - Saviour'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)

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