What Happened On Feb 26 Timeline

James K. Polk, a Democrat and a strong supporter of territorial expansion, was elected president in November 1844 with a mandate to acquire both the Republic of Texas and Oregon Country. ...

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the American state o...

In December of 1851, the Birkenhead sailed from Cork in Ireland, under the command of Captain Robert Salmond. She left Simon's Town on the morning of the 25th February, after loading 35...

The Germans, while continuing to sink defenceless American vessels, still moved with a degree of caution after the severance of diplomatic relations. True, they had sunk the American frei...

Congress approved An Act to Establish the Lafayette National Park at Mt. Desert Island on the coast of Maine on February 26, 1919. The park, expanded and renamed Acadia National Park in ...

Congress passed An Act to Establish the Grand Canyon National Park in the State of Arizona. Comprising over one million acres of northwestern Arizona, the park includes the most spectacul...

The Pilgrim is a 1923 American silent film made by Charlie Chaplin for the First National Film Company, starring Chaplin and Edna Purviance. The film marks the last time Edna Purviance...

The trial of Adolf Hitler for high treason after the Beer Hall Putsch was not the end of Hitler's political career as many had expected. In many ways marked the true beginning. Overnig...

A few days before Christmas, 1924, Adolf Hitler emerged a free man after nine months in prison, having learned from his mistakes. In addition to creating the book, Mein Kampf, Hitler had ...

Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), born J. R. Cash, was an American singer-songwriter, actor, author, and Biblical scholar, who was one of the most influential musician...

By this time, Ruth knew he had little left as a player. His heart was set on managing the Yankees, and he made no secret of his desire to replace McCarthy. However, Ruppert wouldn't consi...

A Slight Case of Murder is a 1938 comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film is based on a play by Damon Runyon and Harold Lindsay. The offbeat comedy stars Edward G. Robinson spoofing...

Eastern Airlines Flight 21, night of February 26, 1941. Sometimes called the “Rickenbacker Crash” due to the presence of Eastern Airlines President and former WWI ace Eddie Rickenbacker o...

The 14th Academy Awards may be most infamous, in retrospect, as the year in which Citizen Kane (consistently regarded as one of the greatest films ever made) did not win Best Picture. Rat...

During the winter of 1947-48, both in the cabinet and in parliament tension between the Communists and their opponents led to increasingly bitter conflict. In early February 1948, the Com...

"Space Seed" is a first-season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, that was first broadcast on February 16, 1967 and repeated on August 24, 1967. It is episode #22, production #24,...

The disaster killed 125 people, injured 1,000, and left 4,000 homeless. Five hundred and seven houses were lost or demolished 44 mobile homes were destroyed another 273 houses were severe...

Ky-Mani Marley (born February 26, 1976, in Falmouth, Jamaica) is a Jamaican actor and reggae musician. He is the son of singer Bob Marley and table tennis champion Anita Belnavis. He move...

"Another Day" was U2's first single release, and was released in 1980 following their EP, Three, and prior to their debut album, Boy. It was released only in Ireland. 1. "Another Day"...

Point of Entry is the seventh album from the British heavy metal band Judas Priest. It was released on 26 February 1981. In 1980 Judas Priest garnered some airplay with "Breaking the L...

The Coalition advance was much swifter than US generals had expected. On February 26, Iraqi troops began retreating from Kuwait, setting fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they left. A long co...

1916 is the ninth studio album by the British band Motörhead. It was released on February 26, 1991 on WTG Records. This was their first album recorded for WTG after the legal battle wi...

The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded by the Recording Academy to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance...

"The Limo" was the 20th episode of the third season of the American sitcom Seinfeld (The 37th episode overall). It aired on February 26, 1992. Plot Summary: Jerry flies in from Chic...

Attack on the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The group of conspiritors was headed by Ramzi Yousef and financed by Khaled Sheikh Mohammed. Using a truck bomb that...

"Yes, I am a terrorist, and proud of it as long as it is against the US government " —Ramzi Yousef

Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim, or Ramzi Yousef, as he was more commonly known, detonated a massive bomb in the World Trade Center underground parking garage. Yousef had intended the 150...

Al Queda bombed the World Trade Center in hopes that the towers would fall. This event killed six people and injured 1,042 more.

A large rising of an Islamic radical group during the early 1990's in the United States brought forth the first plan of a terrorist attack on the nation's homeland. On February 26, 1993,...

"Free speech not only lives, it rocks," a beaming Oprah Winfrey said Thursday after jurors rejected a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit by Texas cattlemen. The Amarillo, Texas, jury ...

Gore Obsessed is the eighth studio album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse released in 2002 through Metal Blade Records. There is also a Japanese version with "Compelled to ...

Third World Girls Gone Wild, The Dave Chappelle Story, Ask a Gay Guy, The Mad Real World

Avastin is a cancer medicine that interferes with the growth of cancer cells by blocking the formation and growth of new blood vessels in the tumor which slows their growth. Avastin is...

The 2005 Special Olympics Winter World Games were hosted at Nagano in Japan and were the first Special Olympics World Games held in Asia. Nagano became the first city in the world to host...

McDonald and Loggins make a bet about McDonald's new song, "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)", that takes a decade to resolve. Ten years later, Long Beach-based rappers Warren G...

The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls - South Africa is a girls-only boarding school that officially opened in January 2007 at Henley-on-Klip in Meyerton, south of Johannesburg, ...

I think the real story here is found in the comments section of the Youtube video--everyone was sent by someone named Nat. I wasn't, but I still commented that I was just because no one ...

On February 26, 2008, Byrd was admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for observation following a fall at his home the day before. Byrd attended Senate sessions on that day, but comp...

Business is picking up around Fight Cub! The Bruins engaged in their sixth multi-fight game of the season last night as part of a 6-0 shellacking of the Anaheim Ducks. Plenty to discuss, ...

Darkfall is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Aventurine SA that combines real-time action and strategy in a fantasy setting. The game features unrest...

Halo Wars is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 video game console. It was released in Japan and ...

BURRIS' SON GOT STATE JOB FROM BLAGO SCANDAL MUSHROOMS | He serves as housing authority counsel despite facing foreclosure on his own home The son of embattled Sen. Roland Burris is a...

Tracy McGrady is predicting it will take him four more weeks to get in basketball shape and at least another six months until he is close to 100% healthy. In the meantime, the Knicks c...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The last time the Timberwolves visited Oklahoma City, Mike Miller provided the buzzer-beating shot in the midst of the Thunder's miserable 3-29 season start. So much ha...

President Obama for the first time called for Moammar Gaddafi to resign Saturday, saying the Libyan leader "has lost the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is right for his country b...

Tunisia's Interior Ministry says three people were killed Saturday in clashes between security forces and anti-government demonstrators. The violence erupted in the capital, Tunis, aft...

The UN Security Council moved as a powerful bloc today to try to halt Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's deadly crackdown on protesters, slapping sanctions on him, his five children, and 10 ...