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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.
Born on February 26
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.

Today in Indian History
Events for February 26

26-February-320	Chandragupta I succeeded his father Ghatotkacha at Patliputra. He is known for establishing the Gupta dynasty. Gupta era begins.
26-February-1857	First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry.
26-February-1858	Diwan Maniram and Piali Barua were hanged. (Grandson of Purandara Simha, the last Ahom king of Assam.)
26-February-1874	Sursingh Takhtsingh Gohil `Kalapi', famous Gujrati poet, was born.
26-February-1887	Sir Benegal Narsingh Rao, an eminent lawyer and political leader, was born. He was the first Indian President of UN Security Council in 1950.
26-February-1901	The notes of Rs twenty denomination were issued with two issuing circles. These notes had four numeric denominations.
26-February-1915	Pran Nath Chhuttani, great physician and teacher, was born.
26-February-1936	Manmohan Desai, prominent Hindi film-maker, was born.
26-February-1937	Manmohan Desai, film producer and director, was born.
26-February-1946	Mrinal Pandey, famous Hindi columnist, was born.
26-February-1966	34 national leaders charge Indira Gandhi's rule is 'constitutional dictatorship'.
26-February-1966	Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poe
26-February-1971	Noel David, Hyderabad off-spinner who played ODI in 1997, was born.
26-February-1972	President Varahgiri Venkat Giri inaugurated the Vikram Earth Satellite Station at Wardha near Arvi.
26-February-1975	Bhanubhai Shah established the first kite museum of India called 'Shankar Kendara' in Ahmedabad.
26-February-1976	V. S. Khandekar was honoured by Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award for the novel 'Yayati'.
26-February-1984	Satellite Insat 1-B dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
26-February-1996	Parliament's budget session opens.
26-February-1996	Sahib Singh Verma sworn in as Delhi's second CM.
26-February-1998	Kalyan Singh wins the ''composite floor test'' in the Assembly, securing 225 votes against the 196 got by Jagadambika Pal.