Monday, February 26, 2018

History for February 26

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History for February 26 - On-This-Day.com
Nicolas Joseph Cugnot 1725 - Inventor, Victor Hugo 1802 - Author, Levi Strauss 1829 - Businessman, founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans
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William "Buffalo Bill" Cody 1846 - Frontiersman, showman, John Harvey Kellogg 1852, Johnny Cash 1932 - Musician
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1916 - Mutual signed Charlie Chaplin to a film contract.
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1919 - In Arizona, the Grand Canyon was established as a National Park with an act of the U.S. Congress.
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1929 - U.S. President Coolidge signed a bill creating the Grand Teton National Park.
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1952 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed an atomic bomb.
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1986 - Corazon Aquino was inaugurated president of the Philippines. Long time President Ferdinand Marcos went into exile.
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1991 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced on Baghdad Radio that Iraqi troops were being withdrawn from Kuwait.
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1993 - Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.
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1998 - In Oregon, a health panel rules that taxpayers must help to pay for doctor-assisted suicides.
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