Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
February 26
| 364 | On the death of Jovian, a conference at Nicaea chooses Valentinan, an army officer who was born in the central European region of Pannania, to succeed him in Asia Minor. | |
| 1154 | William the Bad succeeds his father, Roger the II, in Sicily. | |
| 1790 | As a result of the Revolution, France is divided into 83 departments. | |
| 1815 | Napoleon and 1,200 of his men leave Elba to start the 100-day re-conquest of France. | |
| 1848 | Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish The Communist Manifesto in London. | |
| 1871 | France and Prussia sign a preliminary peace treaty at Versailles. | |
| 1901 | Boxer Rebellion leaders Chi-Hsin and Hsu-Cheng-Yu are publicly executed in Peking. | |
| 1914 | Russian aviator Igor Sikorsky carries 17 passengers in a twin engine plane in St. Petersburg. | |
| 1916 | General Henri Philippe Petain takes command of the French forces at Verdun. | |
| 1917 | President Wilson publicly asks congress for the power to arm merchant ships. | |
| 1924 | U.S. steel industry finds claims an eight-hour day increases efficiency and employee relations. | |
| 1933 | Ground is broken for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. | |
| 1936 | Japanese military troops march into Tokyo to conduct a coup and assassinate political leaders. | |
| 1941 | British take the Somali capital in East Africa. | |
| 1943 | U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators pound German docks and U-boat lairs at Wilhelmshaven. | |
| 1945 | Syria declares war on Germany and Japan. | |
| 1951 | The 22nd Amendment is added to the Constitution limiting the Presidency to two terms. | |
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson signs a tax bill with $11.5 billion in cuts. | |
| 1965 | Norman Butler is arrested for the murder of Malcom X. | |
| 1968 | Thirty-two African nations agree to boycott the Olympics because of the presence of South Africa. | |
| 1970 | Five Marines are arrested on charges of murdering 11 South Vietnamese women and children. | |
| 1972 | Soviets recover Luna 20 with a cargo of moon rocks. | |
| 1973 | A publisher and 10 reporters are subpoenaed to testify on Watergate. | |
| 1990 | Daniel Ortega, communist president of Nicaragua, suffers a shocking election defeat at the hands of Violeta Chamorro. | |
| 1993 | A bomb rocks the World Trade Center in New York City. Five people are killed and hundreds suffer from smoke inhalation. | |
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Born on February 26 |
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| 1802 | Victor Hugo, French novelist and poet (Les Misérables). | |
| 1829 | Levi Strauss, creator of blue jeans. | |
| 1832 | John George Nicolay, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln | |
| 1846 | William Frederick Cody, aka "Buffalo Bill". | |
| 1877 | Rudolph Dirks, cartoonist, creator of the "Katzenjammer Kids." | |
| 1879 | Mabel Dodge Luhan, American biographer. | |
| 1893 | I(vor) A(rmstrong) Richards, writer, critic and teacher. | |
| 1928 | Antoine "Fats" Domino, American singer. | |
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