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On This Day

February 26

1993
World Trade Center in New York is bombed, killing six and injuring over 1,000.

1991
Desert Storm: Two U.S. A-10 aircraft mistakenly fire on British armored personnel carriers, killing nine British soldiers.

1986
Ferdinand Marcos: The Philippine president flees the country, ending his 20-year rule, following reports of widespread fraud during the presidential election.

1984
World indoor long jump record, 28 feet 10.25 inches by Carl Lewis.

1981
Money for Nothing: The basis for the 1993 movie is provided when Joey Coyle picks up $1.2 million that fell out of an armored car and goes on a spending spree. He was arrested six days later but acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.

1952
Great Britain announces that it has developed an atomic bomb.

1951
22nd Amendment ratified, limiting the number of times a President may be elected to two.

1935
Radar is first demonstrated, by British physicist Robert Watson-Watt.

1932     d. 2003
Johnny Cash (John Ray Cash), American Grammy-winning country music singer, "The Man in Black."

1928
Fats Domino (Antoine Domino), American singer. Music: Blueberry Hill (1956). He recorded The Fat Man (1949), which is considered to be the first rock 'n' roll song.

1928
Ariel "Arik" Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel (2001-).

1920
Tony Randall (Leonard Rosenberg), American actor. TV: The Odd Couple (Felix Unger).

1919
Mason Adams, American actor. TV: Lou Grant (Charlie Hume).

1916     d. 1987
Jackie Gleason (Herbert John Gleason), American Tony-winning actor. Broadway: Take Me Along (1959, Tony, as the hard-drinking Uncle Sid). TV: The Honeymooners (Ralph Kramden).

1877     d. 1968
Rudolph Dirks, American cartoonist, creator of Katzenjammer Kids (1897).

1876     d. 1895
Pauline Musters, Dutch dwarf, world's shortest adult. She was 24 inches tall at age 19. (source: Guinness Book of World Records)

1866     d. 1930
Herbert Henry Dow, American chemist, pioneer in the U.S. chemical industry.

1857     d. 1926
Emile Coue, French druggist. He created the psychotherapeutic technique of Coueism, which is based on repeating the saying "Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better."

1852     d. 1943
John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon, invented grain flakes cereal.

1846     d. 1917
Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody), American showman, Pony Express rider who formed the famous Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

1802     d. 1885
Victor Marie Hugo, French poet, author. Writings: Les Misérables (1862). He was exiled from France (1851) for his opposition to Louis Napoleon.

1903     b. 1818
Richard Jordan Gatling, American physician, invented the rapid-fire machine gun (1862).

1884     b. 1817
Alexander Wood, Scottish physician, the first to use a syringe to inject medicine (1855).

1813     b. 1746
Robert R. Livingston, American patriot, member of the Continental Congress. He administered the oath of office to George Washington in 1789.

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