About February 26
February 26, 2021 is the 57th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 308 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 340 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 26
- 364 –Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
- 1658 –Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
- 1815 –Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
- 1876 –Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea’s status as a tributary state of Qing Dynasty China.
- 1909 –Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
- 1914 –Ship HMHS, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
- 1917 –The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
- 1919 –President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).
- 1929 –President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
- 1935 –Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
- 1936 –In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
- 1960 –A New York bound Alitalia airliner crashed into a cemetery at Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
- 1971 –U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
- 1972 –The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
- 1980 –Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
- 1987 –Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
- 1991 –Gulf War: United States Army forces capture the town of Al Busayyah.
- 1993 –World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.
- 1995 –The United Kingdom’s oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
- 2004 –Republic of Macedonia President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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