sábado, 26 de febrero de 2011

En este día...


ON THIS DAY

February 26

On Feb. 26, 1993, a bomb exploded in the garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
On Feb. 26, 1852, John Harvey Kellogg, the American physician who developed dry cereal, was born. Following his death on Dec. 14, 1943, his obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Date

1815Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from the island of Elba to begin his second conquest of France.
1848The Second French Republic was proclaimed.
1870New York City's first pneumatic-powered subway line was opened to the public. (The tunnel was only a block long.)
1919Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
1932Country musician Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland, Ark.
1952Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed its own atomic bomb.
1987The Tower Commission issued its report on the Iran-Contra affair, rebuking President Ronald Reagan for failing to control his national security staff.
1991Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced on Baghdad Radio that he had ordered his forces to withdraw from Kuwait.
1995Barings PLC, Britain's oldest investment banking firm, collapsed after a securities dealer lost more than $1.4 billion by gambling on Tokyo stock prices.
2001A U.N. tribunal convicted Bosnian Croat political leader Dario Kordic and military commander Mario Cerkez of war crimes for ordering the systematic murder and persecution of Muslim civilians during the Bosnian war.

Current Birthdays

Michael Bolton, Singer
Singer Michael Bolton turns 58 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
Erykah Badu, R&B singer
R&B singer Erykah Badu turns 40 years old today.
AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber
1928Fats Domino, R&B singer, turns 83
1945Mitch Ryder, Rock singer, turns 66
1950Jonathan Cain, Rock musician (Journey), turns 61
1958Greg Germann, Actor ("Ally McBeal"), turns 53
1958Tim Kaine, Former governor of Virginia, turns 53
1975Mark DeRosa, Baseball player, turns 36
1973Marshall Faulk, Football player, turns 38

Historic Birthdays

58Wenceslas 2/26/1361 - 8/16/1419
German king (as Wenceslas IV, King of Bohemia)
56Archibald Argyll 2/26/1629 - 6/30/1685
Scottish Protestant leader
83Victor Hugo 2/26/1802 - 5/22/1885
French poet, novelist and dramatist
70William F. Cody 2/26/1846 - 1/10/1917
American buffalo hunter and Indian scout
71Honore Daumier 2/26/1808-2/10/1879
French caricaturist, painter and sculptor
64Herbert H. Dow 2/26/1866 - 10/15/1930
American founder of Dow Chemical Co.
91Rudolph Dirks 2/26/1877 - 4/20/1968
American cartoonist of "Katzenjammer Kids"
70Francesco Borgongini-Duca 2/26/1884 - 10/4/1954
Italian Vatican cardinal
66Sir Benegal Narsing Rau 2/26/1887 - 11/29/1953
Indian jurist
63Grover Cleveland Alexander 2/26/1887 - 11/4/1950
American professional baseball player
89Vercors (b. Jean Marcel Bruller) 2/26/1902 - 6/10/1991
French novelist and artist
53Margaret Leighton 2/26/1922 - 1/13/1976
English stage and film actress

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