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On this day...
1531 Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000
1616 Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo
1732 First mass celebrated in first American Catholic church, Philadelphia
1815 Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France
1834 First US interstate crime compact (NY-NJ) ratified
1848 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto"
1852 British troop ship Birkenhead sinks off South Africa, 458 die
1869 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
1870 First NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered)
1881 S.S. Ceylon begins first round-the-world cruise from Liverpool
1885 Conference of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to England
1893 Two Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan
1895 Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine
1914 New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated
1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604
1919 Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
1933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field
1935 Germany begins Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall Herman Goering
1935 NY Yankees release Babe Ruth
1938 First passenger ship equipped with radar
1940 US Air Defense Command established at Mitchel Field, Long Island, NY
1944 First female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
1946 Two killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia Tenn
1952 PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
Birthdays which occurred on February 26th:
1361 Wenceslas of Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperor (1378-1400)
1802 Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
1846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Davenport Iowa
1861 Ferdinand I, Vienna, first Tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18)
1866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry
1876 Pauline Musters, shortest known adult (1' 11.2")
1887 Grover Cleveland Alexander, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs)
1893 William Frawley, Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons)
1906 Madeleine Carroll, English actress (The 39 Steps, Secret Agent)
1913 Jon Hall, Fresno California, actor (Ramor of the Jungle)
1914 Robert Alda, NYC, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand)
1916 Jackie Gleason, actor (Honeymooners, Smokey & the Bandit)
1918 Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe, baseball pitcher (Brooklyn Dodgers)
1918 Otis R. Bowen, US Secretary of Health & Human Services (1985-89)
1918 Theodore Sturgeon, science fiction writer (Starshine, A Way Home)
1919 Mason Adams, NYC, actor (Charlie Hume-Lou Grant, Deadliest Season)
1920 Tony Randall, Tulsa Oklahoma, actor (Felix-Odd Couple)
1921 Betty Hutton, Battle Creek Michigan, actress (Greatest Show on Earth)
1922 Margaret Leighton, Birmingham England, actress (Astonished Heart)
1926 Cynthia Stone, Peoria Illinois, actress (That Wonderful Guy, Ad Libbers)
1927 Tom Kennedy, Louisville KY, game show host (You Don't Say, Name That Tune)
1928 Antione "Fats" Domino, rhythm & blues pianist (Blueberry Hill)
1931 Robert Novak, Joliet Illinois, news reporter (Evans & Novak)
1932 Johnny Cash, Kingsland Arkansas, country singer
1933 Sir James Goldsmith, Paris France, financier/corporate raider
1938 Jack Knight, Somerville Mississippi, actor (Mr. Shamley-James at 15)
1943 Bob "The Bear" Hite, singer (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country)
1948 Priscilla Lopez, Bronx NY, actress (In the Beginning, Kay O'Brien)
1950 Jonathan Cain, rock keyboardist (Journey)
1957 Keena Rothhammer, US, 800 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1970 Katie O'Neill, Los Angeles, actress (Together We Stand)
Deaths which occurred on February 26th:
1870 Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in NC, lynched
1961 Mohammed V, King of Morocco
1962 Harold Johnson, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
1965 Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist
1966 Minerva Urecal, actress (Peter Gunn), dies at 71
1967 Harry McNaughton, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 70
1969 Levi Eshkol, Israeli premier
1973 Mary Finney, actress (Honestly Celeste), dies at 68
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