On this day …
February 26, 2015
- In 364, Valentinian I was proclaimed Roman Emperor.
- In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from Elba.
- In 1914, the HMHS Britannic, the sister ship to the RMS Titanic, was launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signed an act of Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a U.S. National Park.
- In 1935, Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
- In 1980, Egypt and Israel established full diplomatic relations.
- In 1993, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City exploded, killing six and injuring more than a thousand.
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