Notable Historical Events on February 26th
February 26th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
747 |
Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era. |
BC AD | |
364 |
Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor. |
1266 |
Battle of Benevento fought in Southern Italy between Manfred of Sicily and army of Charles of Anjou |
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 |
1732 |
1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, St Joseph's, Philadelphia |
1773 |
Construction authorized for Walnut St jail (Phila) (1st solitary) |
1794 |
Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down. |
1797 |
Bank of England issues first £1-note |
1804 |
Vice-admiral William Bligh (of Bounty fame) ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad |
1815 |
Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France |
1832 |
Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Tsar Nicholas I |
1834 |
1st US interstate crime compact (NY-NJ) ratified |
1839 |
Jem Mason on Lottery wins 1st Grand National Steeplechase (Britain) |
1848 |
2nd French Republic proclaimed |
1848 |
Marx & Engels publish "Communist Manifesto" |
1852 |
British troopship Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die, 193 survive |
1859 |
Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins |
1862 |
Battle of Woodburn, KY |
1863 |
Lincoln signs National Currency Act |
1866 |
New York Legislature forms NYC Metropolitan Board of Health |
1869 |
15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states to ratify |
1869 |
Franz Schubert's "4th Tragic," premieres |
1870 |
1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered) |
1881 |
-27] Natal: British troops under Major General Colley occupy Majuba Hill |
1881 |
SS Ceylon begins 1st round-the-world cruise from Liverpool |
1884 |
British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II |
1885 |
Congress of Berlin; gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to Great Britain |
1887 |
George Lohmann took 1st 8-wkt haul in Test Crickets, 8-35 at SCG |
1891 |
1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park |
1891 |
Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler," premieres in Oslo |
1893 |
2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Mich |
1893 |
Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500m (48 sec) |
1895 |
Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine |
1901 |
British general Kitchener confers with Boer general Louis Botha about peace conditions, which break down over the question of amnesty for some Boers |
1907 |
Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP) |
1907 |
US Congress raised their own salaries to $7,500 |
1907 |
Louis Botha Het Volk Party wins a majority in the election in Transvaal, South Africa |
1909 |
Austria and Turkey conclude an agreement in which Turkey recognizes Austria's 1908 annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is to receive compensation |
1910 |
Gandhi supports the African People's Organisations resolution to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of Wales in South Africa as a day of mourning in protest against the South Africa Acts disenfranchisement of Indians, Coloureds and Africans in the upcoming Union of South Africa |
1912 |
Coal miners strike in Britain (settle on 1st March) |
1914 |
New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated |
1914 |
HMHS Britannic, sister to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast. |
1915 |
Malancourt, Argonnen (1st (German) flame-thrower |
1916 |
Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930 |
1916 |
Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract |
1916 |
Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia |
1917 |
1st jazz records recorded - "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," and "Livery Stable Blues" by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company |
1917 |
[NS Mar 11] Russian February Revolution: Tsar Nicolas II orders army to quell civil unrest in Petrograd - army mutinies |
1917 |
1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands) |
1918 |
Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604 |
1919 |
Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine |
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 |
1925 |
Jihad against Turkish government |
1926 |
Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street |
1929 |
US Pres Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park |
1930 |
"Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater |
1930 |
1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC) |
1930 |
West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England |
1933 |
Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field |
1933 |
Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell |
1935 |
German Luftwaffe is re-formed under Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering |
1935 |
NY Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves |
1935 |
RADAR-Radio Detection & Ranging 1st demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt) |
1936 |
Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen" |
1936 |
Military coup in Japan |
1937 |
C Isherwood/WH Auden's "Ascent of F6," premieres in London |
1938 |
1st passenger ship equipped with radar |
1938 |
Rie Van Veen swims world record 200m free style (2:24.6) |
1938 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer |
1938 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
1940 |
US Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, NY |
1941 |
2 fighters unable to continued slugfest, referee declares double KO |
1941 |
Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California) |
1941 |
Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews |
1941 |
Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory |
1942 |
German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb |
1942 |
Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies |
1942 |
WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same" |
1942 |
Werner Heisenberger informs nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen" |
1943 |
German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia |
1944 |
1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed |
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 |
1950 |
Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety," premieres in NYC |
1951 |
Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia |
1952 |
Neth-Indonesian Unity conference |
1952 |
PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb |
1953 |
Allen W Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA |
1954 |
1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Mass |
1954 |
Michigan rep Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records |
1955 |
"Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 149 performances |
1955 |
1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith |
1956 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
1956 |
Writers and poets Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge |
1960 |
Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia |
1960 |
USA's David Jenkins wins Olympic Gold for men's figure skating |
1960 |
Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ |
1960 |
Vera Miles stars in the famous "Mirror Image" episode of the classic CBS television series "The Twilight Zone" |
1962 |
Arthur Kopit's "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad . . .," premieres in NYC |
1962 |
US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation |
1962 |
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY |
1965 |
Dutch government of Marijnen falls |
1965 |
West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania |
1966 |
KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1967 |
Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ |
1968 |
Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission |
1970 |
"Georgy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 4 performances |
1970 |
Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album |
1971 |
Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day. |
1971 |
Two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are shot and killed by the Irish Republican Army while on a mobile patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, North Ireland |
1972 |
Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek West Virginia, kills 125 |
1973 |
Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m |
1974 |
Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris |
1975 |
"Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 perfs |
1975 |
1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show) |
1976 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1977 |
1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747) |
1978 |
Ira Levin's "Deathtrap," premieres in NYC |
1978 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
1979 |
Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US |
1980 |
Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time |
1980 |
Milt coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname |
1980 |
R Hadlee scores Test Cricket century v Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft |
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 |
1981 |
French Train Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run |
1982 |
Test Cricket debut of Martin Crowe, v Australia Wellington, run out 9 |
1983 |
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks |
1983 |
Shortwave pirate Radio USA (Wellsville, NY) begins transmission |
1984 |
Last US marines in multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon left Beirut |
1984 |
Rev Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown" |
1984 |
Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate |
1985 |
27th Grammy Awards: Whats Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper wins |
1986 |
Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16) |
1986 |
People Power Revolution in the Philippines. |
1987 |
1st release of Beatles compact discs |
1987 |
NASA launches GEOS-H |
1987 |
NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points in one game is a Chicago Bulls record |
1987 |
Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair |
1987 |
USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1987 |
Wash blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record |
1988 |
Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000m (1:17.65) |
1989 |
Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career |
1989 |
"Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 perfs |
1989 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am |
1989 |
Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa) |
1989 |
NY Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster |
1989 |
California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs |
1990 |
USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czech by July, 1991 |
1990 |
The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections. |
1991 |
Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons v NZ (119 & 102) |
1991 |
Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1991 |
Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital |
1991 |
NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together |
1991 |
Signs of Iran crude now an option for US refiners, but no imports from Iran likely in near future |
1992 |
"Search & Destroy" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 46 perfs |
1992 |
Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion |
1993 |
2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die |
1993 |
9th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins |
1993 |
Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123 |
1994 |
St Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1 |
1995 |
London finance house Barings collapses after huge losses in Singapore by rogue trader Nick Leeson |
1997 |
39th Grammy Awards: Change the World Babyface, Beck & LeAnn Rimes wins |
1998 |
Oprah Winfrey found not guilty in beef defamation trial brought by Texas cattlemen |
1998 |
Steven M Gluckstern completes sale of NY Islanders |
1998 |
Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09) |
1999 |
15th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins |
2001 |
The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan. |
2004 |
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
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 orders the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 2005 by asking Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76 of the constitution. |
2005 |
25th Golden Raspberry Awards: Catwoman wins |
2011 |
31st Golden Raspberry Awards: The Last Airbender wins |
2012 |
The film The Artist wins five Academy Awards and becomes the first silent film to win since 1927 |
2012 |
Bus plunges off a cliff in Shanxi, China causing 15 deaths |
2012 |
Train derailment kills 3 and injures 45 in Burlington, Ontario |
2012 |
84th Academy Awards - "The Artist," Jean Dujardin & Meryl Streep win |
2013 |
A flexible battery capable of being charged wirelessly and folded and stretched is developed |
2013 |
A hot air balloon crashes in Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 tourists |
2013 |
A rocket launched from the Gaza strip into Israel ends the ceasefire since November 2012 |
2017 |
Malaysia declares airport safe for travel after nerve agent attack |
2017 |
Drunken driver injures 28 at New Orleans Mardi Gras parade |
2018 |
South Korea says it hopes for constructive talks between US, North Korea |
2018 |
Florida to investigate police response to school shooting that killed 17 |
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