February 26th

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The February 26 is the 57th day of the Gregorian calendar , so stay 308 days (in leap years 309 days) by year end.

Historical anniversaries
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Events

Politics and world events

1266: Battle of Benevento
1790: Départements (one of the proposals for division)
1885: Berlin Congo Conference
1936: Insurgent troops on February 26th
1991: The "Highway of Death"
1993: Location of the WTC

economy

science and technology

1935: Robert Watson-Watt
1966: Launch of AS-201

Culture

1806: Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
1959: The fall of the damned into hell

religion

Disasters

1794: Christiansborg is on fire
1852: sinking of the Birkenhead
  • 1852 : The Royal Navy troop transport Birkenhead sinks off South Africa. Only 193 of the 643 people on board survive. In the event of a catastrophe, instead of the usual call, everyone will be for himself! first call women and children first! used.
  • 1918 : The sinking of the British hospital ship HMHS Glenart Castle by the German submarine UC 56 kills 153 crew members, nurses and patients in the Bristol Channel.
  • 1972 : The Buffalo Creek Dam in West Virginia, USA causes up to 125 deaths.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

nature and environment

Denali National Park established in 1917 in winter

Sports

2006: The Olympic flame

Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .

Born

Before the 19th century

Christopher III. (* 1416)
Claude-Adrien Helvétius (* 1715)

19th century

1801-1850

Heinrich Christian Burckhardt (* 1811)
Wendelin Weißheimer (* 1838)

1851-1900

Émile Coué (* 1857)
Richard Wetz (* 1875)
Aleksandras Stulginskis (* 1885)

20th century

1901-1925

Giulio Natta (* 1903)
Fritz Bock (* 1911)
Tony Randall (* 1920)

1926-1950

Ariel Sharon (* 1928)
Johnny Cash (born 1932)
Jobst Plog (* 1941)
Sandie Shaw (born 1947)

1951-1975

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (* 1954)
Jaz Coleman (born 1960)
Robin Ammerlaan (* 1968)
Frank Busemann (* 1975)

1976-2000

Sanya Richards-Ross (* 1985)

Died

Before the 16th century

16th to 18th century

Erik XIV († 1577)

19th century

Johan Tobias Sergel († 1814)
George Ezekiel († 1874)

20th century

1901-1950

Richard Jordan Gatling († 1903)
Otto Wallach († 1931)

1951-2000

William J. Bulow († 1960)
Karl Jaspers († 1969)
Tatjana Sais († 1981)

21st century

Boris Trajkovski († 2004)
Arnošt Lustig († 2011)

Holidays and memorial days

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .


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