Historical Events In February - 26

1994 Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm

1995 Barings, England's oldest investment banking company, fails after a securities broker loses over $1 billion gambling on Tokyo stock prices.

1997 39th Grammy Awards Change the World Babyface, Beck & LeAnn Rimes win

1998 Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial

1998 Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean

1999 Ontario Southland commenced operation over the CP Port Burwell subdivision from Ingersoll to Tillsonburg, ON.

1797 First ever pound note issued by the Bank of England

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from exile on the Island of Elba

1936 Volkswagen Beetle car launched by Adolf Hitler

1991 During the Gulf War, Kuwait City is liberated and Iraq begins its withdrawl

1993 Terrorist bomb explosion under the World Trade Center, New York

1802 The birth of Victor Hugo, French novelist and playwright

1846 The birth of William Cody, 'Buffalo Bill', the American showman

1928 The birth of Fats Domino, American singer

2005 Hosni Mubarak the president of Egypt asked parliament to amend the constitution to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 205.

2007 The International Court of Justice finds Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre, but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in the case.

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