February 26......

February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 308 (309 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 747 BC - Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era.

● 364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.

● 1266 - Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.

● 1531 - Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000

● 1534 - Pope Paul II affirms George van Egmond as bishop of Utrecht

● 1564 - Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (Dr Faustus), baptized

● 1590 - Mauritius of Nassaus sails to Breda

● 1616 - Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo

● 1732 - In Philadelphia, Mass was celebrated for the first time at St Joseph's Church the only Roman Catholic church built and maintained in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War.

● 1773 - Construction authorized for Walnut St jail (Philadelphia) (1st solitary)

● 1794 - Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down.

● 1797 - The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes.

● 1802 - Author Victor Hugo was born in Besancon, France.

● 1804 - Vice-Admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad

● 1807 - Birth of Johann K.F. Keil, German Bible scholar. His Old Testament commentary, written in collaboration with Franz Delitzsch, first appeared in 1861. Known today as "Keil & Delitzsch," the multi-volume set is still in print!

● 1815 - Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France

● 1832 - Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Czar Nicholas I

● 1834 - 1st US interstate crime compact (New York-New Jersey) ratified

● 1840 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us.'

● 1846 - Frontiersman-turned-showman William F. ''Buffalo Bill'' Cody was born in Scott County, Iowa.

● 1846 - Birth of George C. Stebbins, American Baptist music evangelist. A composer of over 1,500 songs during his lifetime, Stebbins is still remembered today for writing the melodies to such hymns as: "I've Found a Friend," "Take Time to Be Holy," "Have Thine Own Way, Lord" and "Jesus is Tenderly Calling Thee Home."

● 1848 - Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto"

● 1848 - The second French Republic is proclaimed.

● 1852 - John Harvey Kellogg, the American physician who developed dry cereal, was born.

● 1852 - British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die

● 1862 - Battle of Woodburn, KY

● 1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the National Currency Act into law.

● 1869 - 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states

● 1870 - Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in North Carolina, lynched.

● 1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway opens.

● 1877 - Vancouver Island's first Coal Miner's union founded.

● 1881 - SS Ceylon begins 1st round-the-world cruise from Liverpool

● 1881 - Natal British troops under General-Major Colley occupy Majuba Hill

● 1884 - British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II

● 1885 - Congress of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to England

● 1891 - 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park

● 1893 - 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan

● 1894 - With the passing of the "Laws scelerates," Jean Grave is charged for writing "La societe mourante et l'anarchie." He was sent to prison for two years and the court ordered the book be destroyed.

● 1895 - Michael Owens of Toledo OH patents a glass-blowing machine

● 1907 - Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)

● 1907 - US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500

● 1912 - Coal strike begins, Derbyshire, England. Becomes a general, nationwide strike on March 1.

● 1914 - New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated

● 1915 - Malancourt, Argonnen - 1st (German) flame-thrower

● 1916 - Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930

● 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 - Acadia National Park established (as Lafayette National Park), Maine

● 1919 - An act of the U.S. Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park.

● 1921 - Russia - The revolutionary Kronstadt sailors sent delegates to Petrograd find out about strikes occurring there. The delegation visited a number of factories and returned two days later, beginning protests against the Bolshevik counter-revolution.

● 1926 - French anarchist Georges Butaud (1868-1926) dies in Ermont. Most of his energies were devoted to creating anarchist colonies; he participated in several of them. In 1898 he founded a radical colony in the Parisian suburbs; he started another in 1899 in Saint Symphorien d' Ozon, in Isire, then in the "Milieu libre de Vaux" near Chateau-Thierry (1902 to 1906); in 1913 in Saint Maur (the Seine) a community farm devoted to agriculture and breeding. Butaud, sensitive to the problems of food consumption, became an advocate of vegetarianism, which he practiced, after the war, in the colony of Bascon (Aisne).

● 1929 - The Grand Teton National Park is created.

● 1930 - 1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)

● 1932 - Country musician Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland, Ark.

● 1933 - Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field

● 1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell

● 1935 - The Luftwaffe is reformed.

● 1935 - Robert Watson-Watt carried out a demonstration which led directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.

● 1936 - In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.

● 1936 - Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"

● 1937 - C Isherwood/WH Auden's "Ascent of F6" premieres in London

● 1938 - 1st passenger ship equipped with radar

● 1940 - US Air Defense Command established at Mitchell Field, Long Island NY

● 1941 - Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews

● 1941 - Workers strike at Bethlehem Steel plants.

● 1941 - Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory

● 1942 - WWII Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"

● 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

● 1944 - 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed

● 1944 - Shooting begins of the Nazi propaganda film, The Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews in Theresienstadt.

● 1945 - In the U.S., a nationwide midnight curfew went into effect.

● 1945 - Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force

● 1946 - 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia TN

● 1949 - USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight

● 1951 - The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, limiting U.S. Presidents to two terms.

● 1951 - Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia

● 1952 - Netherlands-Indonesian Unity conference

● 1952 - United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has a H-bomb.

● 1953 - Allen W Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA

● 1954 - Four crewmen aboard a C-119 die when their plane crashes after observing the time-honored Air Force tradition of buzzing the Huntington, Tennessee courthouse.

● 1954 - 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy MA

● 1954 - Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records

● 1955 - Singer LaVern Baker appeals to Congress to revise the Copyright Act of 1909 so recording artists can be protected against "note-for-note copying" of all presently recorded R&B tunes and arrangements by white artists and arrangers. The long-standing problem had been exacerbated by white "rock and roll" artists ripping off previously recorded black music.

● 1955 - 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed - G F Smith

● 1960 - Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia

● 1962 - US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation

● 1963 - The Lutheran World Federation's missionary radio station at Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia, was dedicated.

● 1965 - Jimmy Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies from beating by Alabama police.

● 1965 - Dutch Government of Marijnen falls

● 1965 - West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania

● 1966 - Four thousand picket outside New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel as Pres. Lyndon Johnson receives the National Freedom Award. As Johnson begins his speech in defense of his Vietnam policies, James Peck of the War Resisters League jumps to his feet and shouts, "Mr. President, peace in Vietnam!" On the streets, meanwhile, activist A.J. Muste presents the crowd's own "Freedom Award" to Julian Bond, who has been denied his seat in the Georgia legislature for refusing to disavow his war opposition and his support of the Student Non- Violent Coordinating Committee.

● 1966 - Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket

● 1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1968 - Hospital blaze kills 21 patients; Twenty-one female patients die in a fire which sweeps through a wing of the Shelton Mental Hospital near Shrewsbury.

● 1968 - Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission

● 1969 - Minority students occupy President's office at Seattle Central Community College.

● 1970 - U.S. Army supposedly discontinues surveillance of civilian anti-war demonstrations and maintenance of files on protestors.

● 1970 - National Public Radio incorporates as a non-profit corporation.

● 1971 - Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.

● 1972 - West Virginia coalslag heap, which had doubled as a dam, suddenly collapses, flooding the 17-mile ling Buffalo Creek Valley. 118 die, 14 mining camps leveled, and 5,000 people are left homeless.

● 1974 - Ford Motor Co., Henry Ford, and their Nazi war efforts revealed in Senate report.

● 1974 - Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris

● 1976 - Body of American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Aquash, in a murder never solved but widely attributed to the FBI, is found in rural South Dakota. The FBI initially claimed Aquash died of exposure, and buried her before family or friends could view the body; when exhumed, she was found to have an FBI-issue bullet in her head.

● 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1977 - 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)

● 1979 - Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US

● 1980 - Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for the 1st time

● 1980 - Military coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname

● 1981 - 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since August 1980 are released

● 1984 - Last US marines in multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon left Beirut

● 1984 - Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse

● 1986 - Corazon Aquino was inaugurated president of the Phillipines. Long time President Ferdinand Marcos flees the Philippines with U.S. assistance.

● 1986 - People Power Revolution in the Philippines.

● 1986 - Robert Penn Warren is named poet laureate of the United States.

● 1987 - Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes American President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.

● 1987 - NASA launches GEOS-H

● 1987 - The U.S.S.R. conducted its first nuclear weapons test after a 19-month moratorium period.

● 1987 - Synod says 'yes' to women priests; The Church of England's General Synod votes by a huge majority in favour of the ordination of women priests.

● 1989 - Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa)

● 1990 - USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991

● 1990 - The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections.

● 1991 - U.S. air forces, in the infamous "turkey shoot," drop fuel-air bombs and massacre thousands of retreating Iraqi conscripts on the Basra road from Kuwait.

● 1991 - Pres. George Bush I admits supporting Khmer Rouge in Cambodia -- an illegal act.

● 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.

● 1991 - Gulf War: On Baghdad Radio Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait.

● 1991 - Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital

● 1992 - Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion

● 1993 - World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand. By the following day, over 40 groups will claim responsibility. The buildings would be destroyed in a subsequent attack on September 11, 2001.

● 1995 - The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.

● 1995 - at The Houston Astrodome Selena Quintanilla-Perez performed in her last concert before she was killed.

● 1997 - Thirty-six arrested at a state capitol encampment protesting welfare cutbacks, St. Paul, Minnesota.

● 1998 - An international weapons inspection team, including Canadian MP Libby Davies, is not allowed entry to either confirm or deny the presence of weapons of mass destruction at the Bangor (Wash.) nuclear submarine base. Aerial photos the same day, however, suggest the odds of such heinous weapons were pretty damn high.

● 1998 - In Oregon, a health panel rules that taxpayers must help to pay for doctor-assisted suicides.

● 1998 - Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean

● 2000 - Pope John Paul II visited Mount Sinai in Egypt, revered as the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments.

● 2000 - UK Government moves to gag ex-spy; Former British spy David Shayler is being sued by the government for breach of confidence and contract over information leaked to a newspaper.

● 2001 - A U.N. tribunal convicted Bosnian Croat political leader Dario Kordic and military commander Mario Cerkez of war crimes for ordering the systematic murder and persecution of Muslim civilians during the Bosnian war.

● 2001 - The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.

● 2002 - In Rome, Italy, a bomb exploded near the Interior Ministry. No injuries were reported.

● 2004 - The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.

● 2004 - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

● 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.

BIRTHS

● 1361 - Wenceslaus IV, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)

● 1564 - Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist (d. 1593)

● 1587 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (d. 1639)

● 1629 - Archibald Argyll, Scottish Protestant leader (d. 1685)

● 1671 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713)

● 1672 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757)

● 1714 - James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (d. 1758)

● 1715 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (d. 1771)

● 1720 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1803)

● 1749 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher

● 1786 - François Arago, French mathematician (d. 1853)

● 1799 - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864)

● 1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)

● 1808 - Honoré 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)

● 1846 - Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody), American pioneer, officer, and hunter (d. 1917)

● 1852 - John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon, advocate of dietary reform (d. 1943 )

● 1857 - Émile Coué, French psychologist (d. 1926)

● 1861 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)

● 1861 - Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Russian revolutioner, Lenin's wife (d. 1939)

● 1866 - Herbert H. Dow, American founder of Dow Chemical Co. (d. 1930)

● 1877 - Rudolph Dirks, American cartoonist of "Katzenjammer Kids" (d. 1968)

● 1879 - Frank Bridge, English composer (d. 1941)

● 1882 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)

● 1884 - Francesco Borgongini-Duca, Italian Vatican cardinal (d. 1954)

● 1885 - Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969)

● 1887 - Sir Benegal Narsing Rau, Indian jurist (d. 1953)

● 1887 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, baseball player (d. 1950)

● 1887 - William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)

● 1893 - I. A. Richards, English literary critic (d. 1979)

● 1899 - Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)

● 1902 - Jean Bruller (Vercors), French writer and illustrator (d. 1991)

● 1903 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)

● 1907 - Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)

● 1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)

● 1908 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)

● 1909 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)

● 1912 - Dane Clark, American actor (d. 1998)

● 1914 - Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)

● 1916 - Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer, and comedian (d. 1987)

● 1918 - Otis Ray Bowen, American politician and physician

● 1918 - Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)

● 1919 - Mason Adams, American actor (d. 2005)

● 1919 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (d. 2003)

● 1920 - Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)

● 1920 - Danny Gardella, baseball player (d. 2005)

● 1920 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (d. 2006)

● 1922 - Margaret Leighton, British actress (d. 1976)

● 1921 - Betty Hutton, American actress

● 1926 - Miroslava Stern, Mexican actress (d. 1955)

● 1927 - Tom Kennedy, American game show host

● 1928 - Fats Domino, American musician

● 1928 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut

● 1928 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel

● 1930 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (d. 2005)

● 1931 - Robert Novak, Political columnist

● 1931 - Ally McLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004)

● 1932 - Johnny Cash, American singer (d. 2003)

● 1934 - Robert Novak, American political columnist

● 1941 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)

● 1943 - Paul Cotton, Country musician (Poco)

● 1943 - Bill Duke, American actor and director

● 1945 - Mitch Ryder, Rock singer

● 1945 - Marta Kristen, Norwegian actress

● 1945 - Peter Brock, Australian motorsports champion (d. 2006)

● 1946 - Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1947 - Sandie Shaw, British singer

● 1949 - Emma Kirkby, British early music singer

● 1950 - Jonathan Cain, Rock musician (Journey)

● 1950 - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand

● 1951 - Lee Atwater, American political operative (d. 1991)

● 1953 - Michael Bolton, American singer

● 1954 - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey

● 1956 - Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer

● 1957 - Joe Mullen, American ice hockey player

● 1957 - David Muldrow Beasley, American politician

● 1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist

● 1959 - Rolando Blackman, Panamanian basketball player

● 1961 - John McDaniel, Bandleader

● 1962(58? NYT) - Greg Germann, American actor (''Ally McBeal'')

● 1966 - Jennifer Grant, Actress

● 1966 - Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer

● 1968 - J.T. Snow, American baseball player, 1st baseman

● 1970 - Erykah Badu, R&B singer

● 1971 - Erykah Badu, American singer

● 1971 - Max Martin, Swedish composer and producer

● 1972 - Rico Wade, R&B singer (Society of Soul)

● 1973 - Marshall Faulk, American football star

● 1973 - Jenny Thompson, American swimmer

● 1973 - Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian footballer

● 1974 - Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver

● 1975 - Kyle Norman, R&B singer (Jagged Edge)

● 1977 - Marty Reasoner, American ice hockey player

● 1978 - Marc Hynes, British racing driver

● 1979 - Corinne Bailey Rae, British singer

● 1980 - Rodney Hayden, Country singer

● 1980 - Alex Fong, Hong Kong singer

● 1980 - Gary Majewski, baseball player

● 1981 - Kertus Davis, NASCAR driver

● 1982 - Jay Mullen, British actor

● 1982 - Song Hye Kyo, South Korean model and actress

● 1983 - Kara Monaco, American playmate

● 1984 - Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer

● 1984 - Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer

● 1985 - Alexandria Hilfiger, American actress, daughter of Tommy Hilfiger

● 1986 - Crystal Kay, Japanese singer

● 1987 - Julia Bond, American actress

● 1993 - Taylor Dooley, American actress

DEATHS

● 1154 - King Roger II of Sicily (b. 1093)

● 1266 - King Manfred of Sicily

● 1360 - Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328)

● 1525 - Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler

● 1552 - Heinrich Faber, German composer

● 1561 - Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish writer

● 1577 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)

● 1608 - John Still, English bishop

● 1630 - William Brade, English composer (b. 1560)

● 1638 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (b. 1681)

● 1723 - Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)

● 1726 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)

● 1770 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (b. 1692)

● 1802 - Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (b. 1718)

● 1813 - Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746)

● 1815 - Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (b. 1737)

● 1903 - Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818)

● 1913 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)

● 1921 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)

● 1931 - Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)

● 1933 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1853)

● 1947 - Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (b. 1868)

● 1961 - King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)

● 1966 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter and writer (b. 1883)

● 1969 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)

● 1969 - Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist (b. 1883)

● 1971 - Fernandel, French actor (b. 1903)

● 1981 - Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)

● 1985 - Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1910)

● 1989 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)

● 1993 - Constance Ford, American actress (b. 1923)

● 1994 - Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)

● 1995 - Jack Clayton, British film director (b. 1921)

● 1997 - David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)

● 1998 - Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

● 2002 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)

● 2004 - Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (b. 1920)

● 2004 - Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)

● 2004 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)

● 2005 - Jef Raskin, American computer scientist (b. 1943)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Ember Day
● St. Alexander
● St. Alexander of Alexandria
● St. Dionysius of Augsburg
● St. Faustinian
● St. Fortunatus
● St. Isabel of France
● St. Mechtild (d. 1154)
● St. Nestor (died 251)
● St. Papias
● St. Victor
● Bl. Edigna
● Bl. Leo of Furnes (d. 1163)

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 13 (Civil Date: February 26)
● St. Martinian, monk of Caesaria in Palestine.
● Holy woman Zoe and Virgin Photina.
● St Symeon the Myrrhgusher, prince of Serbia.
● St. Eulogius, Archbishop of Alexandria.
● St. Joseph of Volokolamsk.

● Greek Calendar:
● Ap & Martyr Aquila, and Priscilla.
● Repose of Archbishop George Konissky of Belo-Russia (1795)
● Repose of Abbess Seraphima of Sezenovo (1877).

● Anglican:
● Ember Day

● Christian:
● St. Ethelbert, king of Kent; baptized by St. Augustine
● St. Nestor

● Bahá'í Faith - February 26, Day 1 of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) - days in the Bahá'í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.

● Nation of Islam - Savior's Day - commemoration of the birthdate of Wallace Fard Muhammad, believed to be Allah in human form, the saviour of the black race.

● Liberation Day in Kuwait (1991).


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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