About February 26
February 26, 2022 is the 57th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 308 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 330 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 26
- 747 BCE –Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy’s Nabonassar Era.
- 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.
- 1794 –The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
- 1815 –Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
- 1914 –Ship HMHS, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
- 1920 –The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, premièred in Berlin.
- 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.
- 1935 –Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.
- 1952 –Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
- 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.
- 1961 –Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
- 1966 –Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
- 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.
- 1992 –Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
- 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.
- 2004 –Republic of Macedonia President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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