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February 26
is the 57th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 308 days remaining until the end of the year (309 in
leap years
).
- 1909
-
Kinemacolor
, the first successful
color
movie process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace
Theatre
in
London
.
- 1914
? The ship HMHS
Britannic
is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in
Belfast
.
- 1917
? Denali
National Park
is founded in
Alaska
, originally named Mt. McKinley National Park. The mountain's English-language name comes from US President
William McKinley
.
- 1918
? A German U-boat sinks the British
hospital
ship
HMHS
Glenart Castle
, killing 153 people.
- 1919
? The
Grand Canyon
becomes part of the Grand Canyon National Park.
- 1929
? The Grand Teton
National Park
is founded in
Wyoming
.
- 1935
?
Robert Watson-Watt
demonstrates the
radar
near Daventry.
- 1935
-
Adolf Hitler
orders the re-formation of the
Luftwaffe
.
- 1936
? February 26 Incident:
Japanese
military officers stage a military coup against the government.
- 1952
-
Vincent Massey
becomes the first Canadian-born Governor-General of
Canada
.
- 1960
- A
New York
-bound
Alitalia
airliner
crashes into a
cemetery
in
Shannon
,
Ireland
, shortly after take-off, killing 34 of the 52 people on board.
- 1961
-
Hassan II
becomes
King
of
Morocco
.
- 1966
-
Apollo
program: Launch of
AS-201
, the first flight of a
Saturn IB
rocket
.
- 1966
-
Vietnam War
; The ROK Capital Division of the
South Korean
Army
massacres 380 unarmed civilians.
- 1971
-
U Thant
signs the
United Nations
proclamation of the
Spring
Equinox
(
March 20
/
21
) as
Earth Day
. it is later celebrated on
April 22
.
- 1972
? The Buffalo Creek Flood is caused when a dam bursts, in
West Virginia
, killing 125 people.
- 1974
-
Norway
announces the discovery of the Statfjord
oil
field in the
North Sea
.
- 1980
-
Egypt
and
Israel
create full
diplomatic
relations.
- 1984
?
US
troops withdraw from
Lebanon
.
- 1990
? The
Sandinistas
are defeated in
Nicaraguan
elections, also meaning that
Violeta Chamorro
becomes
Nicaragua
's first female
President
.
- 1991
? The
Gulf War
ends when
Saddam Hussein
announces the withdrawal of all
Iraqi
troops in
Kuwait
.
- 1991
-
Tim Berners-Lee
introduces
WorldWideWeb
. As it is confused with the
World Wide Web
, it is later renamed
Nexus
.
- 1992
?
Khojaly Massacre
:
Armenian
forces kill 613
Azerbaijani
civilians in
Nagorno Karabakh
.
- 1993
?
World Trade Center
bombing: A bomb explodes in a car park under the North Tower of
New York City
's World Trade Center, killing 6 people, and injuring over 1,000.
- 1995
-
Barings Bank
, the
United Kingdom
's oldest investment
banking
institute, collapses.
- 1997
- The
funeral
of
Deng Xiaoping
is broadcast across the
People's Republic of China
.
- 2000
? The
Hekla
volcano in
Iceland
erupts.
- 1361
?
Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor
, King of
Bohemia
(d.
1419
)
- 1416
?
Christopher of Bavaria
, King of
Denmark
(d.
1448
)
- 1564
?
Christopher Marlowe
, English dramatist (d.
1593
)
- 1584
-
Albert VI of Bavaria
(d.
1666
)
- 1587
-
Stefano Landi
, Italian composer (d.
1639
)
- 1671
-
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
, English politician and
philosopher
(d.
1713
)
- 1672
-
Antoine Augustine Calmet
, French
theologian
(d.
1757
)
- 1677
-
Nicolas Fago
, Italian
composer
and
teacher
(d.
1745
)
- 1718
?
Johan Ernst Gunnerus
, Norwegian
bishop
,
botanist
and
zoologist
(d.
1773
)
- 1720
-
Gian Francesco Albani
, Italian
cardinal
(d.
1803
)
- 1724
-
Gottfried Heinrich Bach
, son of
Johann Sebastian Bach
(d.
1763
)
- 1732
-
Francis Marion
,
American Revolutionary
officer (d.
1795
)
- 1746
-
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria
(d.
1806
)
- 1770
?
Anton Reicha
,
Bohemian
composer and
flautist
(d.
1836
)
- 1777
-
Matija Nenadovic
, Serbian uprising leader (d.
1854
)
- 1786
?
Francois Arago
,
Catalan
-
French
physicist
and
politician
(d.
1853
)
- 1802
?
Victor Hugo
, French writer (d.
1885
)
- 1808
-
Honore Daumier
, French painter, illustrator and sculptor (d.
1879
)
- 1814
-
Charles-Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville
, French
geologist
(d.
1876
)
- 1829
?
Levi Strauss
, German-born clothing designer (d.
1902
)
- 1838
-
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu
, Romanian
writer
and
philologist
(d.
1907
)
- 1842
-
Camille Flammarion
, French
astronomer
and
writer
(d.
1952
)
- 1846
?
Buffalo Bill
, American
bison
hunter and showman (d.
1917
)
- 1852
?
John Harvey Kellogg
, American physician (d.
1943
)
- 1861
? King
Ferdinand of Bulgaria
(d.
1939
)
- 1866
-
Herbert Henry Dow
, American chemical industrialist (d.
1930
)
- 1869
?
Nadezhda Krupskaya
, Russian revolutionary, wife of
Vladimir Lenin
(d.
1939
)
- 1875
-
Richard Wetz
, German composer and conductor (d.
1935
)
- 1877
-
Henry Barwell
, Australian politician, 28th
Premier
of
South Australia
(d.
1959
)
- 1877
-
Rudolph Dirks
, German-American illustrator (d.
1968
)
- 1879
?
Frank Bridge
, English composer (d.
1941
)
- 1880
-
Kenneth Edgeworth
, Irish
astronomer
(d.
1972
)
- 1881
?
Janus Djurhuus
,
Faroese
poet
(d.
1948
)
- 1882
-
Husband E. Kimmel
, American
admiral
(d.
1968
)
- 1884
-
Francesco Borgongini Duca
, Italian
cardinal
(d.
1954
)
- 1885
?
Aleksandras Stulginskis
,
President
of
Lithuania
(d.
1969
)
- 1887
-
Stefan Grabinski
, Polish writer (d.
1936
)
- 1887
-
Grover Cleveland Alexander
, American
baseball
player (d.
1950
)
- 1891
-
Carlo Carcano
, Italian
footballer
and coach (d.
1965
)
- 1893
-
Wallace Fard Muhammad
, American religious leader (d.
1934
)
- 1896
-
Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov
, Soviet politician and
ideologist
(d.
1948
)
- 1899
-
Max Petitpierre
, Swiss politician (d.
1994
)
- 1900
-
Halina Konopacka
, Polish athlete (d.
1989
)
- 1902
-
Jean Bruller
, French writer, caricaturist and resistance activist (d.
1991
)
- 1903
?
Giulio Natta
, Italian
chemist
(d.
1979
)
- 1906
-
Madeleine Carroll
, English actress (d.
1987
)
- 1906
-
Egidio Vagnozzi
, Italian
cardinal
(d.
1980
)
- 1908
?
Tex Avery
, American cartoonist (d.
1980
)
- 1909
-
Gunnar Andersen
, Norwegian ski jumper (d.
1988
)
- 1909
? King
Talal of Jordan
(d.
1972
)
- 1909
?
Fanny Cradock
, British cookery writer and television presenter (d.
1994
)
- 1911
-
Taro Okamoto
, Japanese avant-garde artist (d.
1996
)
- 1912
-
Dane Clark
, American actor and director (d.
1998
)
- 1914
?
Robert Alda
, American actor (d.
1986
)
- 1916
?
Jackie Gleason
, American actor and producer (d.
1987
)
- 1917
-
Robert Taft, Jr.
, American politician (d.
1993
)
- 1918
-
Pyotr Masherov
, Soviet-
Belarussian
politician (d.
1980
)
- 1918
-
Otis R. Bowen
, 44th
Governor
of
Indiana
and
United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
(d.
2013
)
- 1918
-
Theodore Sturgeon
, American writer (d.
1985
)
- 1920
-
Lucjan Woldanowski
, Polish journalist, writer and traveler (d.
2006
)
- 1920
?
Tony Randall
, American actor (d.
2004
)
- 1921
?
Betty Hutton
, American actress (d.
2007
)
- 1922
-
Karl Aage Praest
, Danish
footballer
(d.
2011
)
- 1922
-
William Baumol
, American economist (d.
2017
)
- 1924
-
Noboru Takeshita
, Japanese politician (d.
2000
)
- 1924
-
Marc Bucci
, American composer, lyricist and dramatist (d.
2002
)
- 1925
-
Everton Weekes
,
Barbadian
cricketer
- 1926
-
Verne Gagne
, American wrestler and football player (d.
2015
)
- 1926
-
Henry Molaison
, American memory disorder patient (d.
2008
)
- 1928
-
Anatoly Filipchenko
, Soviet
cosmonaut
- 1928
?
Fats Domino
, American musician (d.
2017
)
- 1928
-
Odo Marquard
, German
philosopher
(d.
2015
)
- 1928
-
Ariel Sharon
,
Prime Minister of Israel
(d.
2014
)
- 1930
-
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
, Algerian
movie director
and
screenwriter
- 1931
?
Ally MacLeod
, Scottish footballer (d.
2004
)
- 1931
-
Robert Novak
, American
journalist
and
writer
(d.
2009
)
- 1932
?
Johnny Cash
, American singer (d.
2003
)
- 1934
-
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
, Algerian
director
,
producer
and
screenwriter
- 1936
-
Jose Policarpo
, Roman Catholic
Patriarch
of
Lisbon
(d.
2014
)
- 1937
-
Cliff Osmond
, American actor (d.
2012
)
- 1939
?
Josephine Tewson
, English actress
- 1940
-
Whitney Smith
, American
vexillologist
(someone who studies
flags
) (d.
2016
)
- 1942
?
Jozef Adamec
, Slovakian
footballer
- 1943
-
Bill Duke
, American actor and director
- 1943
-
Darcus Howe
,
Trinidad
-born British broadcaster, writer and activist (d.
2017
)
- 1943
-
Charles P. Thacker
, American computer designer (d.
2017
)
- 1944
-
Ronald Lauder
,
President
of the
World Jewish Congress
- 1945
-
Tony deBrum
,
Marshallese
politician (d.
2017
)
- 1945
?
Mitch Ryder
, American
rock musician
- 1946
?
Ahmed Zewail
, Egyptian chemist (d.
2016
)
- 1946
?
Bobby "Bingo" Smith
, American
basketball
player
- 1947
?
Sandie Shaw
, British singer
- 1948
-
David Edgar
, British
playwright
- 1949
?
Elizabeth George
, American writer
- 1949
?
Emma Kirkby
, British singer
- 1949
-
Lynda Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton
, British politician
- 1950
?
Helen Clark
, 37th
Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1950
-
Jonathan Cain
, American musician
- 1950
-
Don Shanks
, American actor and stuntman
- 1951
-
Steve Bell
, English cartoonist
- 1951
-
Wayne Goss
, Australian politician, 34th
Premier
of
Queensland
(d.
2014
)
- 1952
-
Jaan Arder
, Estonian singer (d.
2014
)
- 1953
?
Michael Bolton
, American singer
- 1954
-
Leon de Winter
, Dutch writer
- 1954
?
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
,
President of Turkey
- 1954
?
Ernst August, Prince of Hanover
, German aristocrat, married into the
Monegasque
royal family
- 1955
-
Andreas Maislinger
, Austrian
historian
- 1956
-
Kevin Dunn
, American actor
- 1956
-
Michel Houellebecq
, French writer
- 1957
-
Joe Mullen
, American
ice hockey
player
- 1957
?
David Muldrow
, American politician, 113th
Governor
of
South Carolina
- 1958
?
Tim Kaine
, American politician, former
Governor
of
Virginia
- 1958
-
Susan Helms
, American
astronaut
- 1958
-
Greg Germann
, American actor
- 1959
?
Rolando Blackman
, Panamanian basketball player
- 1959
-
Ahmet Davutoglu
, former
Prime Minister
of
Turkey
- 1962
-
Ahn Cheol-soo
, South Korean politician, businessman and software
entrepreneur
- 1963
-
Chase Masterson
, American actress and singer
- 1964
-
Mark Dacascos
, American actor and martial artist
- 1966
-
Marc Fortier
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1966
-
Garry Conille
, 14th
Prime Minister
of
Haiti
- 1966
-
Najwa Karam
,
Lebanese
singer-songwriter
and
producer
- 1967
?
Kazuyoshi Miura
, Japanese footballer
- 1968
-
Robin Ammerlaan
, Dutch
wheelchair
tennis
player
- 1969
-
Hitoshi Sakimoto
, Japanese composer
- 1969
-
Steve Agee
, American actor and comedian
- 1970
-
Mark Harper
, English politician
- 1971
?
Erykah Badu
, American singer
- 1972
-
Jonny Quinn
, Northern Irish musician (
Snow Patrol
)
- 1973
?
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
, Norwegian footballer and coach
- 1973
?
Marshall Faulk
, American football player
- 1973
?
Jenny Thompson
, American swimmer
- 1974
?
Sebastien Loeb
, French World-Champion rally driver
- 1977
?
Shane Williams
, Welsh
rugby
player
- 1977
-
Tim Thomas
, American
basketball
player
- 1978
?
Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye
,
Senegalese
footballer
- 1979
?
Corinne Bailey Rae
, British singer
- 1979
?
Pedro Mendes
, Portuguese footballer
- 1980
-
Steve Blake
, American
basketball
player
- 1981
?
Chris Thile
, American musician
- 1982
?
Li Na
, Chinese
tennis
player
- 1982
-
Matt Prior
, English
cricketer
- 1983
?
Pepe
, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
- 1984
?
Emmanuel Adebayor
,
Togolese
footballer
- 1984
-
Alex de Angelis
,
Sammarinese
motorcycle
racer
- 1984
-
Natalia Lafourcade
, Mexican
singer-songwriter
- 1985
-
Gee Atherton
, English
mountain biker
- 1985
?
Miki Fujimoto
, Japanese singer (
Morning Musume
)
- 1985
?
Fernando Llorente
, Spanish footballer
- 1986
?
Hannah Kearney
, American skier
- 1986
-
Leila Lopes
,
Angolan
model
- 1986
-
Teresa Palmer
, Australian model and actress
- 1989
-
Gabriel Obertan
, French footballer
- 1991
-
CL
, South Korean
singer-songwriter
and
dancer
- 1991
-
Kevin Plawecki
, American
baseball
player
- 1992
-
Mikael Granlund
, Finnish
ice hockey
player
- 1993
?
Taylor Dooley
, American actress
- 420
-
Porphyry of Gaza
, Greek
bishop
and
saint
(b.
347
)
- 1154
? King
Roger II of Sicily
(b.
1093
)
- 1266
? King
Manfred of Sicily
(b.
1232
)
- 1360
?
Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March
, English
military
leader (b.
1328
)
- 1577
? King
Eric XIV of Sweden
(b.
1533
)
- 1611
-
Antonio Possevino
, Italian Jesuit humanist, diplomat and bibliographer
- 1726
-
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria
(b.
1662
)
- 1770
-
Giuseppe Tartini
, Italian composer (b.
1692
)
- 1813
-
Robert Livingston
, American signer of the
Declaration of Independence
(b.
1746
)
- 1815
-
Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg Saalfeld
(b.
1737
)
- 1864
-
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
, Canadian politician (b.
1807
)
- 1883
?
Alexandros Koumoundouros
,
Prime Minister
of
Greece
(b.
1817
)
- 1889
-
Karl Davydov
, Russian
cellist
and
composer
(b.
1838
)
- 1903
?
Richard Jordan Gatling
, American
inventor
(b.
1818
)
- 1909
?
Hermann Ebbinghaus
, German
philosopher
(b.
1850
)
- 1931
?
Otto Wallach
, German chemist (b.
1847
)
- 1933
?
Princess Thyra of Denmark
(b.
1853
)
- 1936
?
Saito Makoto
,
Prime Minister of Japan
(b.
1858
)
- 1936
-
Takahashi Korekiyo
,
Prime Minister of Japan
(b.
1854
)
- 1942
-
Tommaso Pio Boggiani
, Italian
cardinal
(b.
1863
)
- 1950
-
Harry Lauder
, Scottish entertainer (b.
1870
)
- 1952
-
Theodoros Pangalos
, Greek
interim
leader (b.
1878
)
- 1961
? King
Mohammed V of Morocco
(b.
1909
)
- 1964
-
Homer Martin Atkins
, American politician, 32nd
Governor
of
Arkansas
(b.
1890
)
- 1966
-
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
, Indian freedom fighter and writer (b.
1883
)
- 1969
?
Karl Jaspers
, German psychiatrist (b.
1883
)
- 1969
?
Levi Eshkol
,
Prime Minister of Israel
(b.
1895
)
- 1971
-
Fernandel
, French actor (b.
1903
)
- 1981
-
Howard Hanson
, American composer (b.
1896
)
- 1985
?
Tjalling Koopmans
, Dutch
economist
(b.
1910
)
- 1989
?
Roy Eldridge
, American musician (b.
1911
)
- 1994
?
Bill Hicks
, American comedian (b.
1961
)
- 1995
?
Jack Clayton
, British movie director (b.
1921
)
- 1998
?
Theodore Schultz
, American economist (b.
1902
)
- 1998
-
James Algar
, American
director
,
screenwriter
and
producer
(b.
1912
)
- 2001
-
Arturo Uslar Pietri
,
Venezuelan
writer (b.
1906
)
- 2002
?
Lawrence Tierney
, American actor (b.
1919
)
- 2004
?
Boris Trajkovski
,
President
of
Macedonia
(b.
1956
)
- 2004
-
Shankarrao Chavan
, Indian politician (b.
1929
)
- 2009
?
Ruth Drexel
, German actress (b.
1930
)
- 2009
?
Wendy Richard
, British actress (b.
1943
)
- 2009
-
Norm Van Lier
, American
basketball
player (b.
1947
)
- 2011
?
Arnost Lustig
, Czech writer (b.
1926
)
- 2012
-
Trayvon Martin
, American teenager (shot) (b.
1995
)
- 2013
-
Marie-Claire Alain
, French
organist
and
teacher
(b.
1926
)
- 2013
-
Stephane Hessel
, German-born French writer,
diplomat
and Resistance
activist
(b.
1917
)
- 2014
-
Sorel Etrog
, Romanian-Canadian
sculptor
, painter and illustrator (b.
1935
)
- 2014
-
Gordon Nutt
, English
footballer
(b.
1932
)
- 2014
-
Tim Wilson
, American
comedian
and
country music
singer (b.
1961
)
- 2015
-
Theodore Hesburgh
, American
professor
and Roman Catholic
priest
(b.
1917
)
- 2015
-
Martha Cohen
, Canadian philanthropist (b.
1920
)
- 2015
-
Fritz J. Raddatz
, German writer (b.
1931
)
- 2015
-
Avijit Roy
, Bangladeshi/American
blogger
- 2015
-
Tom Schweich
, American
politician
(b.
1961
)
- 2015
-
Earl Lloyd
, American
basketball
player (b.
1925
)
- 2016
-
Andy Bathgate
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (b.
1932
)
- 2016
-
Don Getty
, Canadian politician,
Premier
of
Alberta
(b.
1933
)
- 2016
-
Eri Klas
, Estonian
conductor
(b.
1939
)
- 2016
-
Karl Dedecius
, Polish-German translator (b.
1921
)
- 2017
-
Ludvig Faddeev
, Russian
physicist
and
mathematician
(b.
1934
)
- 2017
-
Gerald Kaufman
, English politician (b.
1930
)
- 2017
-
Joseph Wapner
, American
judge
and
television
personality (b.
1913
)
- 2017
-
Eugene Garfield
, American
linguist
(b.
1925
)
- 2017
-
Ned Garver
, American
baseball
player (b.
1925
)
- 2017
-
Preben Hertoft
, Danish
sexologist
(b.
1928
)
- 2018
-
Mies Bouwman
, Dutch television presenter (b.
1929
)
- 2018
-
Giorgi Maisashvili
, Georgian economist and politician (b.
1962
)