Today in History
26th February
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| 1266 Battle of Benevento | ||
| 1361 Wenceslas of Bohemia, Holy Roman Catholic German emperor (1378-1400) was born | ||
| 1443 Alfonso of Aragon entered Rome, where he was eventually recognized as king. | ||
| 1531 Earthquake in Lisbon Spain, kills 20,000-30,000 | ||
| 1534 Pope Paul II affirms George van Egmond as bishop of Utrecht | ||
| 1590 Mauritius of Nassaus sails to Breda | ||
| 1616 Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo | ||
| 1675 Guillaume Delisle, Paris France, geographer (Atlas Geographique) was born | ||
| 1732 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, Philadelphia | ||
| 1773 Construction authorized for Walnut St jail (Phila) (1st solitary) | ||
| 1797 The Bank of England issued one pound notes for the first time. | ||
| 1802 Victor Hugo, French poet and novelist, born. Leader of the French Romantic movement, his greatest novel "Les Miserables," was published in 1862. | ||
| 1808 Honor‚ Daumier, France, painter/lithographer/caricaturist was born | ||
| 1815 Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France | ||
| 1831 Filippo Marchetti, composer | ||
| 1832 The Polish constitution was abolished and replaced by one imposed by Czar Nicholas I. | ||
| 1834 1st US interstate crime compact (NY-NJ) ratified | ||
| 1834 Alois Senefelder, German inventor of lithography, died. | ||
| 1839 In Britain, the first Grand National horse race was run. | ||
| 1845 Alexander III, St Petersburg, Russian tsar (1881-94) was born | ||
| 1846 Buffalo Bill, American frontiersman and showman, was born as William Frederick Cody. | ||
| 1848 Marx & Engels publish "Communist Manifesto" | ||
| 1848 The Second French Republic was proclaimed two days after the abdication of King Louis-Philippe. | ||
| 1852 The British troop ship Birkenhead sank off Simon's Bay, South Africa, with the loss of 485 lives. | ||
| 1861 Ferdinand I, first king of modern Bulgaria, was born. | ||
| 1866 New York Legislature forms NYC Metropolitan Board of Health | ||
| 1869 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states | ||
| 1870 1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered) | ||
| 1881 SS Ceylon begins 1st round-the-world cruise from Liverpool | ||
| 1884 British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II | ||
| 1885 The Congress of Berlin, hosted by Otto von Bismarck and attended by 15 nations, agreed on the partition of Central and East Africa. | ||
| 1891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park | ||
| 1895 Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine | ||
| 1901 The leaders of the Boxer Rebellion in China, Chi- hsui and Hsu Cheng-yu, were beheaded in public. | ||
| 1903 Richard Gatling, American inventor of the cylinder gun that bears his name, died. | ||
| 1903 Orde Wingate, British general who led his forces against the Japanese in Burma in World War II, was born in Naini Tal, India. | ||
| 1907 Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP) | ||
| 1912 Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01) | ||
| 1914 New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated | ||
| 1915 Flame-throwers were used in battle for the first time when the 3rd Guard German pioneer regiment used them against the French at Malancourt. | ||
| 1916 The Germans sunk the French transport ship Provence II, killing 930. | ||
| 1916 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract | ||
| 1916 Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia | ||
| 1917 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands) | ||
| 1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604 | ||
| 1919 Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona | ||
| 1923 Italian nationalist & fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts) | ||
| 1924 Trial against Hitler in Munich begins | 7 |
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| 1925 Jihad-Saint war against Turkish govt | ||
| 1933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field | ||
| 1935 Germany begin Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering | ||
| 1935 RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) was first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt. | ||
| 1936 Military coup in Japan | ||
| 1936 Adolf Hitler opened the first factory for the production of the "People's Car," the Volkswagen, in Saxony. | ||
| 1941 Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews | ||
| 1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb | ||
| 1942 Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies | ||
| 1942 Werner Heisenberger informs nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen" | ||
| 1943 German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia | ||
| 1945 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force | ||
| 1946 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia Tenn | ||
| 1949 USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight | ||
| 1951 22nd amendment to Constitution is ratified | ||
| 1951 Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1952 Neth-Indonesian Unity conference | ||
| 1952 Winston Churchill announced that Britain had produced its own atomic bomb and would test it in Australia. | ||
| 1953 Allen W Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA | ||
| 1961 Prince Hassan acceded to the throne of Morocco as King Hassan II following the sudden death of his father Mohammed V. | ||
| 1962 In Northern Ireland, the IRA suspended its campaign of violence it began in 1956 against the province's government. | ||
| 1965 Dutch Govt of Marijnen falls | ||
| 1965 West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania | ||
| 1969 Levi Eshkol, Israeli prime minister since 1963, died. | ||
| 1972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125 | ||
| 1976 Spain handed over the Western Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania. | ||
| 1980 Egypt and Israel established diplomatic relations, marking the end of 30 years of war between the two nations. | ||
| 1980 Milt coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname | ||
| 1981 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since Aug 1980 are released | ||
| 1981 84 penalties (406 mins) assessed for a brawl between NHL Minn & Bost | ||
| 1984 The last U.S. Marines in the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon left Beirut. | ||
| 1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate | ||
| 1986 After being airlifted from the presidential palace the previous day, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and an entourage of about 90 fled the country to Guam. | ||
| 1987 NASA launches GEOS-H | ||
| 1987 Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair | ||
| 1990 The Soviet Union agreed to withdraw all of its 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July 1991. | ||
| 1991 Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital | ||
| 1993 A bomb exploded at the World Trade Center in New York. The blast killed six people and injured more than 1,000. | ||
| 1994 Sworn enemies of Russian President Boris Yeltsin walked free from jail under a parliamentary amnesty. They included former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, and the ex-chairman of the disbanded parliament, Ruslan Khasbulatov. | ||
| 1995 London finance house of Barings collapse after losses in Singapore | ||
| 1995 The London finance house of Barings collapsed after huge losses run up in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson. | ||
| 1997 The Swiss government gave final approval to a Holocaust memorial fund. | ||
| 1997 Nuccio Bertone, one of the automobile world's great mentors and the doyen of Italian design, died. | ||
| 1998 Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09) | ||