{"id":18732,"date":"2020-02-26T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=18732"},"modified":"2020-02-25T17:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T11:35:30","slug":"history-of-26-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-26-february\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 26 February"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 26 February<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> &#8211; Corazon Aquino was inaugurated president of the Philippines. Long time President Ferdinand Marcos went into exile.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> &#8211; The Tower Commission rebuked\u00a0U.S. President Reagan\u00a0for failing to control his national security staff in the wake of the Iran-Contra affair.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> &#8211; The U.S.S.R. conducted its first nuclear weapons test after a 19-month moratorium period.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> &#8211; Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced on Baghdad Radio that Iraqi troops were being withdrawn from Kuwait.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> &#8211; Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong> &#8211; Barings PLC collapsed after a securities dealer lost more than $1.4 billion by gambling on Tokyo stock prices. The company was Britain&#8217;s oldest investment banking firm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; A\u00a0Texas\u00a0jury rejected an $11 million lawsuit by\u00a0Texas\u00a0cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey for price drop after on-air comment about mad-cow disease.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; In\u00a0Oregon, a health panel rules that taxpayers must help to pay for doctor-assisted suicides.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2001<\/strong> &#8211; A U.N. tribunal convicted Bosnian Croat political leader Dario Kordic and military commander Mario Cerkez of war crimes. They had ordered the systematic murder and persecution of Muslim civilians during the Bosnian war.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; In Rome, Italy, a bomb exploded near the Interior Ministry. No injuries were reported.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009<\/strong> &#8211; Former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic was acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia regarding war crimes during the Kosovo War.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009<\/strong> &#8211; The Pentagon reveresed its 18-year policy of not allowing media to cover returning war dead. The reversal allowsd some media coverage with family approval.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Trayvon Martin\u00a0was shot and killed at the age of 17 in Sanford, Florida.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012<\/strong> \u2013 A\u00a0train derails\u00a0in\u00a0Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0hot air balloon\u00a0crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kertus Davis, American race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Oh Seung-bum, South Korean footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Li Na, Chinese tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Matt Prior, South African-English cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nate Ruess, American singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jerome Harrison, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Pepe, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese international footballer, forward<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Beren Saat, Turkish actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Fernando Llorente, Spanish international footballer, striker<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hannah Kearney, American skier<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gabriel Obertan, French footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kate\u0159ina Cachov\u00e1, Czech heptathlete<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Takanoiwa Yoshimori, Mongolian sumo wrestler<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lee Chae-rin, South Korean singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mikael Granlund, Finnish professional hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Michael Chee Kam, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Reghan Tumilty, Scottish footballer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 26 February 1986 &#8211; Corazon Aquino was inaugurated president of the Philippines. Long time President Ferdinand Marcos went into exile. 1987 &#8211; The Tower Commission rebuked\u00a0U.S. President Reagan\u00a0for failing to control his national security staff in the wake of the Iran-Contra affair. 1987 &#8211; The U.S.S.R. conducted its first nuclear weapons test after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1062,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-18732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-26-february","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-4S8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18765,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732\/revisions\/18765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}