What happened this day in history February 26

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 57th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 309 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 13, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 474,696 hours 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 338 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 4,084 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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February 26 Historical Events

  • 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.
  • 1794
    The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1936
    In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
  • 1952
    Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
  • 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.

Who were born on February 26?

  • 1829
    Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
  • 1866
    Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (d. 1930)
  • 1906
    Madeleine Carroll, English actress (d. 1987)
  • 1914
    Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
  • 1938
    Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot guerilla (d. 1957)
  • 1945
    Bob Hite, American singer and harmonicist (Canned Heat) (d. 1981)
  • 1957
    Joe Mullen, American ice hockey player
  • 1973
    Marshall Faulk, American football player
  • 1985
    Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian footballer
  • 1986
    Hannah Kearney, American freestyle skier

Who died on February 26?

  • 1921
    Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)
  • 1930
    Mary Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
  • 1943
    Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (b. 1892)
  • 1961
    King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
  • 1981
    Robert Aickman, English writer and conservationist (b. 1914)
  • 1985
    Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
  • 1994
    Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
  • 2004
    Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)
  • 2008
    Buddy Miles, American drummer (Band of Gypsies) (b. 1947)
  • 2010
    Nujabes, Japanese hip hop producer (b. 1974)

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