At the moment is Thursday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2026. There are 308 days left within the yr.
At the moment in historical past:
On Feb. 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot to loss of life in Sanford, Florida, throughout an altercation with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who mentioned he acted in self-defense. (Zimmerman was later acquitted of second-degree homicide.)
Additionally on this date:
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the island of Elba, crusing again to France in a bid to regain energy.
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signed an act making the Grand Canyon a nationwide park.
In 1952, Prime Minister Winston Churchill introduced that Britain had developed its personal atomic bomb.
In 1987, the Tower Fee, which had probed the Iran-Contra affair, issued its report, which rebuked President Ronald Reagan for failing to regulate his nationwide safety workers.
In 1993, a truck bomb constructed by Islamic extremists exploded within the parking storage of the North Tower of New York’s World Commerce Heart, killing six folks and injuring greater than 1,000 others, primarily attributable to smoke inhalation. (The bomb didn’t topple the north tower into the south tower, because the terrorists had hoped; each towers had been destroyed within the 9/11 assault eight years later.)
In 1998, a jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit introduced by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey’s speak present for a worth fall after a phase on meals security that included a dialogue about mad cow illness.
In 2008, the New York Philharmonic carried out in North Korea as a part of a historic cultural trade in a feat of musical diplomacy. It was the primary American orchestra to ever carry out within the remoted communist nation.
In 2013, a hot-air balloon burst into flames throughout a dawn flight over the traditional Egyptian metropolis of Luxor and plummeted 1,000 ft to earth, killing 19 vacationers.
In 2017, on the Academy Awards, “Moonlight” received three Oscars, together with finest image of 2016; in a startling gaffe, the musical “La La Land” was mistakenly introduced as the very best image winner earlier than the error was corrected.
At the moment’s birthdays:
- Singer Mitch Ryder is 81.
- Singer Michael Bolton is 73.
- Hockey Corridor of Famer Joe Mullen is 69.
- Actor Greg Germann is 68.
- Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia is 68.
- Singer Erykah Badu (EHR’-ih-kah bah-DOO’) is 55.
- Filmmaker Sean Baker is 55.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Marshall Faulk is 53.
- Olympic swimming gold medalist Jenny Thompson is 53.
- Singer Corinne Bailey Rae is 47.
- Tennis Corridor of Famer Li Na is 44.
- Singer Natalia Lafourcade is 42.
- Actor Teresa Palmer is 40.
- Actor Taylor Dooley is 33.
- Rapper Yeat is 26.