February 26
February 26 is the 57th day of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
364: Valentinian I is proclaimed Emperor of the Roman Empire
1848: French Republic is proclaimed second
1891: Foundation of Romanian Architects
1935: Adolf Hitler signed a decree authorizing the establishment of Reich Luftwaffe, being the third German military service, army and navy with the Reich
1952: Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain announces that his nation has the atomic bomb
1988: U.S. government statement announcing the decision to withdraw Romania from July 3, 1988, the most favored nation clause, in reply, said that the Romanian government waived the MFN clause in relations with U.S.
1993: A bomb was first recorded on the basis of one of the two towers of the buildings' World Trade Center ", five victims
2001: The Taliban dinamitează two huge statues that it represented the Buddha in Bamiyan, Afghanistan
2006: Closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy
Births
1564: Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (d. 1593)
1587: Stefano Landi, Italian composer (d. 1639)
1715: Claude Adrien Helvetius, French philosopher (d. 1771)
1802: Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
1829: Levi Strauss jeans creator (d. 1902)
1861: Nadezhda Krupskaya, Marxist revolutionary, Lenin's wife (d. 1939)
1877: Adama van Scheltema Steven Carel, Dutch poet (d. 1924)
1880: Apcar Baltazar, Romanian painter of Armenian ethnicity (d. 1909)
1889: Mariska Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1977)
1930: Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (d. 2005)
1940: Alexander Repan, Romanian actor and movie theater
1947: Irina Gărdescu, Romanian actress
1955: Virgil Popescu, Romanian composer
1958: Michel Houellebecq, the French writer
1962: Alan Nedelcu, Romanian painter
Elena Karst, songwriter, lyricist and singer of light music Romanian
1973: André Tanneberger, German producer and DJ
1985: Sanya Richards, American athletes
Deaths
1561: Jorge Montemayor, Spanish writer
1723: Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
1918: Peter Blaserna, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1836)
1931: Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1847)
1940: Nicholas Tonitza, painter, illustrator and Romanian art critic (b. 1886)
In 1969: Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist (b. in 1883)
1971: Fernandel (Fernand Joseph Desire Constantin), French actor (b. 1903)
1974: Tivadar ACS, writer, journalist and historian Hungary (b. 1901)
1991: John Demetrius Mangeron, Romanian mathematician, corresponding member (1990) of the Romanian Academy (b. 1906)
1999: Cristian Popişteanu, Romanian historian (b. 1932)
