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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