FEBRUARY 26
2001:Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar orders the destruction of Afghanistan's
pre-Islamic cultural heritage, including the famous colossal Buddhas
carved into the cliffs of the Bamiyan Valley. The two statues, dating
from the seventh century and standing more than 100 feet high, would be
demolished in the following weeks in accordance with the Taliban's
practice of destroying non-Islamic "idols."
1815: Exiled French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from imprisonment on Elba, a small island off the coast of Italy, and returns to France, where he would find the support of the French military and return to power for a final 100 days. He would be defeated by a British-Prussian coaltion on June 18, 1815, at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled again, this time to the island of Saint Helena in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
1952: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces to Parliament that the United Kingdom has developed its own atomic bomb, trailing the United States and the Soviet Union as the world's third nuclear power.
1815: Exiled French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from imprisonment on Elba, a small island off the coast of Italy, and returns to France, where he would find the support of the French military and return to power for a final 100 days. He would be defeated by a British-Prussian coaltion on June 18, 1815, at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled again, this time to the island of Saint Helena in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
1952: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces to Parliament that the United Kingdom has developed its own atomic bomb, trailing the United States and the Soviet Union as the world's third nuclear power.
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