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Events on the 26th of February in history

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26 Feb 0364 Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
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26 Feb 0747 Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era.
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26 Feb 0747 -BC- Origin of Era of Nabonassar
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26 Feb 1233 Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols capture Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty, after besieging it for months.
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26 Feb 1266 Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by Manfred, King of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
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26 Feb 1266 Battle of Benevento
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26 Feb 1531 Earthquake in Lisbon Spain, kills 20,000-30,000
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26 Feb 1531 Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000
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26 Feb 1534 Pope Paul II affirms George van Egmond as bishop of Utrecht
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26 Feb 1564 Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (Dr Faustus), baptized
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26 Feb 1590 Mauritius of Nassaus sails to Breda
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26 Feb 1616 Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo
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26 Feb 1732 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, Philadelphia
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26 Feb 1732 1st mass celebrated in American Catholic church, (St Joseph's Church, Philadelphia)
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26 Feb 1773 Construction authorized for Walnut St jail (Philadelphia) (1st solitary)
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26 Feb 1794 The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
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26 Feb 1797 Bank of England issues 1st
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26 Feb 1804 Vice-Admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad
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26 Feb 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
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26 Feb 1815 Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France
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26 Feb 1832 Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Czar Nicholas I
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26 Feb 1834 1st US interstate crime compact (New York-New Jersey) ratified
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26 Feb 1839 Jem Mason on Lottery wins 1st Grand National Steeplechase (Britain)
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26 Feb 1848 2nd French Republic proclaimed
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26 Feb 1848 Marx and Engels publish "Communist Manifesto"
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26 Feb 1848 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto"
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26 Feb 1848 2nd French Republic forms
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26 Feb 1852 British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die
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26 Feb 1859 Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins
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26 Feb 1862 Battle of Woodburn, Kentucky
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26 Feb 1863 Lincoln signs National Currency Act
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26 Feb 1866 New York Legislature establishes NYC Metropolitan Board of Health
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26 Feb 1869 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
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26 Feb 1869 Franz Schubert's "4th Tragic" premieres
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26 Feb 1870 1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered)
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26 Feb 1876 Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
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26 Feb 1881 SS Ceylon begins 1st round-the-world cruise from Liverpool
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26 Feb 1881 Natal British troops under General-Major Colley occupy Majuba Hill
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26 Feb 1884 British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II
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26 Feb 1885 Congress of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to England
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26 Feb 1887 George Lohmann took 1st 8-wicket haul in Test Crickets, 8-35 at SCG
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26 Feb 1891 Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler, " premieres in Oslo
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26 Feb 1891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park
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26 Feb 1893 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan
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26 Feb 1893 Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500 meter (48 seconds)
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26 Feb 1895 Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine
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26 Feb 1907 Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
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26 Feb 1907 US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500
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26 Feb 1909 Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
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26 Feb 1912 Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01)
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26 Feb 1914 HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
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26 Feb 1914 New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated
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26 Feb 1915 Malancourt, Argonnen - 1st (German) flame-thrower
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26 Feb 1916 Tokelau annexed by the United Kingdom.
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26 Feb 1916 Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930
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26 Feb 1916 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract
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26 Feb 1916 Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia
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26 Feb 1917 The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
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26 Feb 1917 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)
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26 Feb 1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604
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26 Feb 1919 Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine
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26 Feb 1919 President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park - the Grand Canyon National Park.
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26 Feb 1919 Acadia National Park established (as Lafayette National Park), Maine
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26 Feb 1919 Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
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26 Feb 1923 Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts and black-shirts)
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26 Feb 1924 Trial against Hitler in Munich begins
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26 Feb 1925 Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government
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26 Feb 1926 Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street
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26 Feb 1929 President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
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26 Feb 1929 President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park
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26 Feb 1930 "Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater
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26 Feb 1930 "The Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater
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26 Feb 1930 1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)
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26 Feb 1930 West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England
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26 Feb 1933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field
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26 Feb 1933 Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell
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26 Feb 1935 Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
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26 Feb 1935 Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
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26 Feb 1935 Germany began Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering
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26 Feb 1935 New York Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves
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26 Feb 1935 RADAR-Radio Detection & Ranging 1st demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt)
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26 Feb 1936 In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
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26 Feb 1936 Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
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26 Feb 1936 Military coup in Japan
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26 Feb 1937 C Isherwood/WH Auden's "Ascent of F6" premieres in London
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26 Feb 1938 1st passenger ship equipped with radar
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26 Feb 1938 Rie Van Veen swims world record 200 meter free style (2:24.6)
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26 Feb 1938 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
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26 Feb 1940 US Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, New York
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26 Feb 1940 US Air Defense Command established at Mitchell Field, Long Island NY
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26 Feb 1941 2 fighters unable to continue slugfest, referee declares double KO
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26 Feb 1941 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)
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26 Feb 1941 Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews
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26 Feb 1941 Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory
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26 Feb 1942 Werner Heisenberger informs Nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"
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26 Feb 1942 WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"
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26 Feb 1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb
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26 Feb 1942 Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies
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26 Feb 1943 German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia
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26 Feb 1944 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
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26 Feb 1945 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force
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26 Feb 1946 2 killed and 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia, Tennessee
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26 Feb 1946 Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
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26 Feb 1949 USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight
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26 Feb 1950 Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety" premieres in New York NY
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26 Feb 1951 22nd amendment to Constitution is ratified
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26 Feb 1951 Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia
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26 Feb 1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
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26 Feb 1952 Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
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26 Feb 1952 Netherlands-Indonesian Unity conference
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26 Feb 1953 Allen W Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA
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26 Feb 1954 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used - Quincy, Massachusetts
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26 Feb 1954 Michigan rep Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records
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26 Feb 1955 "Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 149 performances
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26 Feb 1955 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed - G F Smith
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26 Feb 1956 Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
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26 Feb 1956 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
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26 Feb 1960 A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
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26 Feb 1960 USA's David Jenkins wins the Olympics Gold for men's figure skating
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26 Feb 1960 Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia
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26 Feb 1960 Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champion
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26 Feb 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs New York
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26 Feb 1962 Arthur Kopit's "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad..." premieres in New York NY
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26 Feb 1962 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
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26 Feb 1965 Dutch Government of Marijnen falls
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26 Feb 1965 West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania
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26 Feb 1966 Vietnam War: The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
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26 Feb 1966 Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
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26 Feb 1966 KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell NM (CBS) begins broadcasting
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26 Feb 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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26 Feb 1967 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champion
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26 Feb 1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
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26 Feb 1970 Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
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26 Feb 1970 Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
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26 Feb 1971 U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
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26 Feb 1972 Dam break in WV kills 107
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26 Feb 1972 The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
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26 Feb 1972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125
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26 Feb 1973 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m
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26 Feb 1974 Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
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26 Feb 1975 "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 performances
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26 Feb 1975 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
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26 Feb 1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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26 Feb 1977 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
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26 Feb 1978 Ira Levin's "Deathtrap" premieres in New York NY
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26 Feb 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
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26 Feb 1979 Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
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26 Feb 1980 Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
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26 Feb 1980 Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for the 1st time
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26 Feb 1980 Military coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname
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26 Feb 1980 R Hadlee scores Test Cricket century vs Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft
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26 Feb 1981 84 penalties (406 mins) assessed for a brawl between NHL Minn and Bost
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26 Feb 1981 Boston & Minnesota play most penalty-filled NHL game-406 minute total
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26 Feb 1981 French Train
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26 Feb 1981 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since August 1980 are released
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26 Feb 1982 Test Cricket debut of Martin Crowe, vs Australia Wellington, run out 9
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26 Feb 1983 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks
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26 Feb 1983 Shortwave pirate Radio USA (Wellsville NY) begins transmission
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26 Feb 1984 Rev Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown"
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26 Feb 1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate
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26 Feb 1984 Last US marines in multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon left Beirut
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26 Feb 1984 Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse
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26 Feb 1985 27th Grammy Awards What's Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper win
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26 Feb 1986 Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos fled in defeat
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26 Feb 1986 Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16)
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26 Feb 1987 Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
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26 Feb 1987 1st release of Beatles compact discs
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26 Feb 1987 NASA launches GEOS-H
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26 Feb 1987 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record
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26 Feb 1987 Washington blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
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26 Feb 1987 Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair
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26 Feb 1988 Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000 meter (1:17.65)
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26 Feb 1989 Lowest barometric pressure in the Netherlands (95.5 hPa)
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26 Feb 1989 New York Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster
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26 Feb 1989 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 performances
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26 Feb 1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am
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26 Feb 1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs
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26 Feb 1990 USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991
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26 Feb 1991 Gulf War: United States Army forces capture the town of Al Busayyah.
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26 Feb 1991 Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital
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26 Feb 1991 New York-New Jersey Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together
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26 Feb 1991 Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons vs New Zealand (119 & 102)
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26 Feb 1991 Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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26 Feb 1992 "Search & Destroy" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 46 performances
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26 Feb 1992 Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
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26 Feb 1992 Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion
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26 Feb 1993 World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.
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26 Feb 1993 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
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26 Feb 1993 9th Soap Opera Digest Awards
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26 Feb 1993 Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123
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26 Feb 1994 Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm
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26 Feb 1994 St Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1
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26 Feb 1995 The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
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26 Feb 1995 London finance house of Barings collapse after losses in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson
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26 Feb 1997 39th Grammy Awards: Change the World Babyface, Beck and LeAnn Rimes wins
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26 Feb 1998 Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial
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26 Feb 1998 Steven M Gluckstern completes sale of New York Islanders
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26 Feb 1998 Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09)
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26 Feb 2012 A train derails in Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.
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26 Feb 2013 A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.
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