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747BCEFeb 26Origin of Era of Nabonassar.
364CEFeb 26On the death of Jovian, a conference at Nicaea chose Valentinan, an army officer who was born in the central European region of Pannania, to succeed him in Asia Minor.
1076Feb 26Godfried III with the Hump, duke of Netherlands-Lutheran, was murdered.
1154Feb 26Rogier II Guiscard (60), King of Sicily (1101-54), died. William the bad succeeded his father, Roger the II.
1266Feb 26Charles d’Anjou, king of the two Sicilies, defeated Manfred (33), in the Battle of Benevento. Manfred, the bastard son of Emperor Frederik II, king of Sicily, was killed.
1324Feb 26Dino Compagni, Italian silk seller, poet, chronicler, died.
1361Feb 26Wenceslas of Bohemia, Holy Roman Catholic German emperor (1378-1400), was born.
1505Feb 26In Brest Polish Chancellor J. Laski invited the Lithuanian government to reconfirm and expand the 1501 Union of Melnik, but the offer was rejected.
1534Feb 26Pope Paul III was affirmed George van Egmond as bishop of Utrecht.
1538Feb 26Worp van Thabor, Frisian abbot of Thabor (Chronicon Frisiae), died.
1564Feb 26Christopher Marlowe (d.1593), English, poet, dramatist, was baptized. His work included “Doctor Faustus,” “Tamburlaine,” “The Jew of Malta,” and other plays. He was murdered at 29 in a Deptford tavern and was suspected of being a spy to the Continent on behalf of the Crown. In 1993 Anthony Burgess had a novel published posthumously about Marlowe titled “A Dead Man in Deptford.”
1577Feb 26Erik XIV Wasa (43), King of Sweden (1560-69), died.
1616Feb 26Spanish Inquisition delivered an injunction to Galileo.
1726Feb 26Maximilian II, M. Emanuel, elector of Bavaria, governor of Netherlands, died.
1732Feb 26The 1st mass celebrated in American Catholic church was at St Joseph’s Church, Philadelphia.
1773Feb 26Construction was authorized for Walnut St. jail in Philadelphia, (1st solitary).
1790Feb 26As a result of the Revolution, France was divided into 83 departments.
1797Feb 26Bank of England issued 1st £1-note.
1802Feb 26Victor Hugo (d.1885), French novelist and poet, was born in Besancon. In 1998 Graham Robb published the biography: “Victor Hugo.” “Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.”
1804Feb 26Vice-Admiral William Bligh ended the siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad.
1805Feb 26Alexander Stulginskis, the 2nd president of Lithuania, was born at Kutaliai in the Silale region. He died Sep 22, 1969 in Kaunas.
1813Feb 26Robert R. Livingston (66), US diplomat (Declaration of Independence), died in Clermont, NY. He had helped Robert Fulton develop the “North River Steam Boat” (1807).
1815Feb 26Napoleon and 1,200 of his men escaped from the Island of Elba to start the 100-day re-conquest of France.
1829Feb 26Levi Strauss, creator of blue jeans, was born.
1832Feb 26The Polish constitution was abolished by Czar Nicholas I.
1834Feb 26New York and New Jersey ratified the 1st US interstate crime compact.
1842Feb 26Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher and popularizer of astronomy, was born.
1845Feb 26Alexander III, Russian tsar (1881-94), was born in St Petersburg. [see Mar 10]
1846Feb 26William Frederick Cody, aka “Buffalo Bill,” was born in Scott County, Iowa. He was a “Wild West” frontiersman-turned-showman. Three weeks after the disaster at the Little Bighorn, Buffalo Bill claimed he had taken ‘the first scalp for Custer!’
1848Feb 26Karl Marx and Frederich Engels published “The Communist Manifesto”.
1852Feb 26The British frigate Birkenhead sank off South Africa and 458 died.
1858Feb 26In India pioneering tea-planter Maniram Dewan was hanged by British colonial rulers for taking part in the 1857 rebellion. The Sepoy Mutiny leader had introduced commercial tea production to the Assam region.
1860Feb 26White settlers massacred a band of Wiyot Indians at the village of Tuluwat on Indian Island near Eureka, Ca. At least 60 women, children and elders were killed. Bret Harte, newspaper reporter in Arcata, fed the news to newspapers in San Francisco.
1861Feb 26Ferdinand I, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18), was born in Vienna.
1862Feb 26Battle of Woodburn, KY.
1863Feb 26Pres. Lincoln signed a National Currency Act.
1866Feb 26New York Legislature established the NYC Metropolitan Board of Health.
1869Feb 26Nadezjda K. Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary, wife of Lenin, was born.
1870Feb 26New York City’s first pneumatic-powered subway line was opened to the public. The tunnel was only a block long, and the line had only one car.
1871Feb 26France and Prussia signed a preliminary peace treaty at Versailles.
1876Feb 26Agustin P. Justo y Rolon, President of Argentina (1931-38), was born.
1877Feb 26Rudolph Dirks, cartoonist, was born. He became the creator of the “Katzenjammer Kids.”
1877Feb 26Carel S. Adama van Scheltema, Dutch poet, writer (socialism), was born.
1879Feb 26Mabel Dodge Luhan, American biographer, was born.
1881Feb 26Natal British troops under General-Major Colley occupied Majuba Hill.
1884Feb 26Leopold II in Congo signed a British and Portuguese treaty.
1885Feb 26The Congress of Berlin gave Congo to Belgium and Nigeria to England.
1887Feb 26Sir Benegal Narsing Rau, president of UN Security Council (1950), was born in India.
1891Feb 26Henrik Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” premiered in Oslo.
1893Feb 26Ivor Armstrong Richards (I.A. Richards), writer, critic and teacher (Meaning of Meaning), was born.
1895Feb 26Michael Owens of Toledo, OH., patented a glass-blowing machine.
1901Feb 26Boxer Rebellion leaders Chi-Hsin (Chi-hsui) and Hsu-Cheng-Yu were publicly executed in Peking.
1903Feb 26Richard Gatling (b.1818), American inventor, died. The Gatling gun, an early type of machine gun, was named after him. In 2008 Julia Keller authored “Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel.”
1907Feb 26Members of US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500.
1909Feb 26Diplomats gathered in Shanghai agreed to set up the International Opium Commission. This was the first international effort to ban trade in a narcotic drug.
1912Feb 26Coal miners struck in England. They settled on 03/01.
1914Feb 26New York Museum of Science and Industry was incorporated.
1915Feb 26The 1st flame-thrower was used by the Germans at Malancourt, Argonnen.
 1916Feb 26Jackie Gleason, comedian (Ralph Kramden in the Honeymooners), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
1917Feb 26Utrecht Harbor, Netherlands, held its 1st Annual fair.
1918Feb 26Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon, US sci-fi author (Starshine, A Way Home, Hugo, Caviar), was born.
1919Feb 26Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
1920Feb 26Tony Randall [Leonard Rosenberg], actor (Felix-Odd Couple, Love Sidney), was born in Tulsa, OK.
1921Feb 26Betty Hutton, actress (Greatest Show on Earth), was born in Battle Creek, MI.
1923Feb 26Italian nationalist blue-shirts merged with the fascist black-shirts.
1924Feb 26Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM (1987-89), was born.
1925Feb 26Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government.
1926Feb 26Dark Street in the Bronx was renamed Lustre Street.
1928Feb 26Antonie “Fats” Domino was born in New Orleans. He was an American Rock n’ Roll singer famous by his songs “Blueberry Hill” and “Ain’t that a Shame.”
1929Feb 26President Coolidge signed a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park In Wyoming.
1930Feb 26“The Green Pastures” opened at Mansfield Theater.
1931Feb 26Otto Wallach (83), German chemist (Nobel 1910), died.
1932Feb 26Johnny Cash (d.2003) country singer (I Walk The Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Boy Named Sue), was born in Kingsland, Arkansas.
1933Feb 26Sir James Goldsmith (d.7/18/97), later financier and corporate raider (Referendum Party), was born in Paris to a Catholic French mother and a German Jewish father who later moved to Britain and served as a Conservative member of parliament.
1935Feb 26New York Yankees released Babe Ruth. He signed with Boston Braves.
1936Feb 26Japanese military troops marched into Tokyo to conduct a coup and assassinate political leaders.
1937Feb 26C. Isherwood and W.H. Auden’s “Ascent of F6” premiered in London.
1938Feb 26US female Figure Skating championship was won by Joan Tozzer. US male Figure Skating championship was won by Robin Lee.
1940Feb 26The U.S. Air Defense Command was established at Mitchell Field, Long Island, NY.
1941Feb 26Cowboys’ Amateur Association of America was organized in California.
1942Feb 26Don Mason, WWII Navy flier, sent the message: “Sighted sub sank same.”
1943Feb 26U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators pounded the Reich docks and U-boat lairs at Wilhelmshaven.
1944Feb 26Sue Dauser was appointed the 1st female US navy captain of nurse corps.
1945Feb 26Mitch Ryder, rocker (Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels-Devil With the Blue Dress), was born.
1946Feb 26A race riot in Columbia, TN, killed 2 people and 10 wounded.
1947Feb 26President Truman named Lewis W. Douglas as ambassador to Britain.
1949Feb 26A USAF plane began a 1st nonstop around-the-world flight
1950Feb 26Leonard Bernstein’s “Age of Anxiety” premiered in NYC.
1951Feb 26Bread rationing began in Czechoslovakia.
1953Feb 26Allen W. Dulles was promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA.
1954Feb 26Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduced legislation to ban mailing “obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy” phonograph (rock and roll records.
1954Feb 261st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used at Quincy, MA.
1955Feb 26“Peter Pan” closed at Winter Garden Theater in NYC after 149 performances.
1956Feb 26Writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes met at a party in Cambridge.
1960Feb 26USA’s David Jenkins won the Olympics Gold for men’s figure skating.
1961Feb 26Mohammed V ibn Yusuf (51), sultan, King of Morocco, died.
1962Feb 26After becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, John Glenn told a joint meeting of Congress, “Exploration and the pursuit of knowledge have always paid dividends in the long run.”
1965Feb 26Spoony Singh Sundher (1922-2006), Indian-born entrepreneur, opened his Hollywood Wax Museum on Hollywood Blvd. close to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. He charged $1.50 admittance.
1966Feb 26Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (b.1883), Indian lawyer and  pro-independence activist, died after renouncing medicine food and water on Feb 1 in a fast until death.
1967Feb 26USSR performed an underground nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalitinsk, USSR.
1968Feb 26Lionel Rose (1949-2011) outpointed Fighting Harada in Tokyo and became a national sports hero and an icon for Australia’s indigenous community. Hundreds of thousands lined Melbourne’s streets to welcome him home after his title triumph. He lost the world bantamweight title to Mexican Ruben Olivares in a fifth-round knockout in August 1969.
1969Feb 26Karl Jaspers (b.1883), German psychiatrist, philosopher, died.
1970Feb 26Beatles released “Beatles Again,” aka the “Hey Jude” album.
1972Feb 26Soviets recovered Luna 20 with a cargo of moon rocks.
1973Feb 26A publisher and 10 reporters were subpoenaed to testify on Watergate.
1975Feb 26The 1st televised kidney transplant was shown on the Today Show.
1976Feb 26US performed a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1978Feb 26Ira Levin’s “Deathtrap” premiered in NYC at the Music Box Theater.
1979Feb 26A total solar eclipse cast a moving shadow 175 miles wide from Oregon to North Dakota before moving into Canada. This was the last total solar eclipse of the 20th century for the continental US.
1980Feb 26Republican Ronald Reagan won the New Hampshire primary over George H.W. Bush and Howard Baker 49.8 to 22.8 to 12.9%. Democrat Jimmie Carter won over Ted Kennedy, Jerry Brown and Birch Bayh 47.2 to 37.4 to 9.6%.
1981Feb 26Three British Anglican missionaries, detained in Iran since August 1980, were released.
1982Feb 26Gabor Szabo (b.1936), Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle), died.
1983Feb 26Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album went to #1 and stayed #1 for 37 weeks.
1984Feb 26Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledged that he had called NYC: “Hymietown.”
1982Feb 26In the 27th Grammy Awards Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got to Do With It” won as record and song of the year. Cyndi Lauper won as best new artist.
1986Feb 26Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author Robert Penn Warren was named the first poet laureate of the US by Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin. Warren was awarded the post of US poet laureate consultant to the Library of Congress as the name was changed from consultant in poetry.
1987Feb 26British stores released the 1st Beatles compact discs.
1988Feb 26In NYC police officer Edward Byrne was killed with five shots to the head. His death led Congress to create the Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG).
1989Feb 26US Defense Secretary-designate John Tower, dogged by questions about a possible drinking problem, publicly pledged not to drink any alcohol during his term of office if confirmed by the Senate.
1990Feb 26USSR agreed to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July1991.
1991Feb 26Allied troops took control of Kuwait after a 100-hour ground war. It was later reported that high concentrations of US armor-piercing depleted uranium shells were detonated in Iraq and Kuwait.
1992Feb 26“Search and Destroy” opened at the Circle in the Square Theater in NYC for 46 performances.
1993Feb 26In Egypt a bomb in a coffee shop killed 3 people and injured 18 In Cairo.
1994Feb 26A jury in San Antonio acquitted 11 followers of David Koresh of murder, rejecting claims they had ambushed federal agents; five were convicted of manslaughter.
1995Feb 26The United States and China averted a trade war by signing a comprehensive agreement.
1996Feb 26President Clinton moved to step up economic sanctions on Cuba in response to Cuba’s downing of two unarmed airplanes belonging to the Cuban-American exile group Brothers to the Rescue.
1997Feb 26In the 39th Grammy Awards “Change the World” won four awards, including record of the year; Celine Dion’s “Falling Into You” won album of the year and best pop album.
1998Feb 26A jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey’s talk show for a price fall after a segment on food safety that included a discussion about mad-cow disease.
1999Feb 26President Clinton, outlining foreign policy goals for the final two years of his administration, urged continued American engagement in the quest for peace and freedom abroad.
2000Feb 26Jose Imperatori, vice consul at the Cuban interests section in Washington, was expelled from the US after he refused to leave voluntarily under charges of spying.
2001Feb 26The US State Dept. issued its annual report on the status of human rights and cited “unconfirmed but credible” reports from China of continued use of torture by police to obtain coerced confessions. The report also faulted both Israel and the Palestinians for the current Middle East bloodshed.
2002Feb 26It was reported that the US has begun providing the former Soviet Republic of Georgia with military aid to counter terrorist threats in the Pankisi Gorge region. Some 100-200 US soldiers were included in the $64 million program to begin in mid-March.
2003Feb 26The National Book Critics Circle for general nonfiction went to Samantha Power for “A Problem from Hell: American and the Age of Genocide.”
2004Feb 26It was reported that dentists were departing Britain’s publicly funded National Health Service in large numbers, leaving a growing number of Britons without access to affordable care.
2005Feb 26Walter Anderson (51), telecommunications entrepreneur, was arrested and charged with evading $200 million in federal and local taxes.
2006Feb 26The Bush administration said it has accepted a proposal from Dubai Ports World for a 45-day review of national security implications of its plans to take control of operations at 6 US ports.
2007Feb 26Former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned that the American economy might slip into recession by year’s end.
2008Feb 26Buddy Miles (60), former drummer with Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana and other popular rock musicians, died in Texas. Over his career he appeared in over 70 albums.
2009Feb 26Virgin Megastore, a music and video retailer, announced the closures of its San Francisco and New York stores. This would leave the company with 3 stores (Hollywood, Denver, and Orlando) from a peak of 23 stores in 2002. The San Francisco, which opened in 1995, planned to shut down in late April.
2010Feb 26New York Gov. David Paterson abandoned his campaign for a full term as state governor.
2011Feb 26In Kingston, NY, a privately owned, vintage military jet crashed into the Hudson River. Divers the next day recovered the body of pilot Michael Faraldi (38).
2012Feb 26In Los Angeles the Iranian film “A Separation” won an Oscar for best foreign film. Director Asghar Farhadi’s movie explores troubles in Iranian society through the story of a marriage in collapse.
2013Feb 26A major winter storm hit the US midsection for the 2nd time in a week.
2014Feb 26Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill designed to give added protection from lawsuits to people who assert their religious beliefs in refusing service to gays.
Source: Timelines of History   

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