What are the important events that happened on February 26? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

February 26: Facts & Myths About This Day

February 26 is the 57^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 308 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 13, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,008,800 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘pentacontaheptagon’ day.

Pisces is the zodiac 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 356 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,450 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

February 26 Historical Events

• 364 –
  Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
• 1794 –
  The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1936 –
  In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
• 1966 –
  Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
• 1972 –
  The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
• 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.

Who were born on February 26?

• 1361 –
  Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
• 1954 –
  Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, heir to the deposed Kingdom of Hanover and husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco
• 1956 –
  Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer
• 1968 –
  J. T. Snow, American baseball player
• 1968 –
  Tim Commerford, American bassist(Rage Against the Machine)
• 1971 –
  Max Martin, Swedish composer and producer
• 1974 –
  Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver
• 1984 –
  Beren Saat, Turkish actress
• 1985 –
  Miki Fujimoto, Japanese singer
• 1986 –
  Crystal Kay, Japanese singer

Who died on February 26?

• 1864 –
  Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian politician (b. 1807)
• 1913 –
  Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
• 1959 –
  Selig Suskin, Russian-born Israeli agronomist and early Zionist (b. 1873)
• 1969 –
  Levi Eshkol, Israeli politician, Prime Minister (1963-death) (b. 1895)
• 1981 –
  Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)
• 1993 –
  Constance Ford, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1994 –
  Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
• 1998 –
  James Algar, American film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1912)
• 2008 –
  Buddy Miles, American drummer (Band of Gypsies) (b. 1947)
• 2011 –
  James A. McClure, American politician (b. 1924)