February 26
364 | On the death of Jovian, a conference at Nicaea chooses Valentinan, an army officer who was born in the central European region of Pannania, to succeed him in Asia Minor. | |
1154 | William the Bad succeeds his father, Roger the II, in Sicily. | |
1790 | As a result of the Revolution, France is divided into 83 departments. | |
1815 | Napoleon and 1,200 of his men leave Elba to start the 100-day re-conquest of France. | |
1848 | Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish The Communist Manifesto in London. | |
1871 | France and Prussia sign a preliminary peace treaty at Versailles. | |
1901 | Boxer Rebellion leaders Chi-Hsin and Hsu-Cheng-Yu are publicly executed in Peking. | |
1914 | Russian aviator Igor Sikorsky carries 17 passengers in a twin engine plane in St. Petersburg. | |
1916 | General Henri Philippe Petain takes command of the French forces at Verdun. | |
1917 | President Wilson publicly asks congress for the power to arm merchant ships. | |
1924 | U.S. steel industry finds claims an eight-hour day increases efficiency and employee relations. | |
1933 | Ground is broken for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. | |
1936 | Japanese military troops march into Tokyo to conduct a coup and assassinate political leaders. | |
1941 | British take the Somali capital in East Africa. | |
1943 | U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators pound German docks and U-boat lairs at Wilhelmshaven. | |
1945 | Syria declares war on Germany and Japan. | |
1951 | The 22nd Amendment is added to the Constitution limiting the Presidency to two terms. | |
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson signs a tax bill with $11.5 billion in cuts. | |
1965 | Norman Butler is arrested for the murder of Malcom X. | |
1968 | Thirty-two African nations agree to boycott the Olympics because of the presence of South Africa. | |
1970 | Five Marines are arrested on charges of murdering 11 South Vietnamese women and children. | |
1972 | Soviets recover Luna 20 with a cargo of moon rocks. | |
1973 | A publisher and 10 reporters are subpoenaed to testify on Watergate. | |
1990 | Daniel Ortega, communist president of Nicaragua, suffers a shocking election defeat at the hands of Violeta Chamorro. | |
1993 | A bomb rocks the World Trade Center in New York City. Five people are killed and hundreds suffer from smoke inhalation. |
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