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Events
747 BC – Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era.
364 – Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
1233 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols capture Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty, after besieging it for months.
1266 – Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by Manfred, King of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
1616 – Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
1794 – The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from the Italian island of Elba, where he had been living in exile per the terms of the Treaty of Fontainebleau.
1863 – A single national currency is established when Abraham Lincoln signs the National Currency Act.
1876 – Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
1914 – HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
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1929 – President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
1933 – The Golden Gate Bridge groundbreaking ceremony is held at Crissy Field.
1935 – Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
1936 – In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
1946 – Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
1952 – Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
1960 – A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
1966 – Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket.
1966 – Vietnam War: The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
1971 – U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1972 – The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
1980 – Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
1987 – Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
1991 – Gulf War: United States Army forces capture the town of Al Busayyah.
1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
1993 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.
1995 – The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
2008 – The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea. The first event of its kind to take place in North Korea.
2012 – A train derails in Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.
2013 – A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.
2015: The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopts their Open Internet Order of 2015, reclassifying Internet service providers as common carrier utilities.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Ethelbert, King of Kent, Confessor. Double. (February 27 in Leap-Year.)
In Leap-Year February has 29 days, the additional day being inserted after the 23rd.
Contemporary Western
Alexander of Alexandria
Isabelle of France
Porphyry of Gaza
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Emily Malbone Morgan (Episcopal Church (USA))
Li Tim-Oi (Anglican Church of Canada)
Eastern Orthodox
February 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Saints Photine (Photina), the Samaritan woman in the Gospel, and those with her,
all martyred under Nero, including:
her sisters: Phota, Photis, Parasceva, and Cyriaca (Kyriake);
her sons: Victor Stratelates (or Photinus) and Joses (Joseph);
Christodoulos; Sebastian the Duke; the officer Anatolius;
and Theoclitus, the former sorcerer
Saint Porphyrius of Gaza, Bishop of Gaza (420)
Saint Nicholas of "Katopinos"
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Dionysius of Augsburg, venerated as the first Bishop of Augsburg
in Germany (c. 303)
Saint Faustinian, second Bishop of Bologna in Italy (4th c.)
Saint Andrew of Florence, Bishop of Florence and Confessor (c. 407)
Saint Agricola, Bishop of Nevers in France (c. 594)
Saint Victor, a hermit in Arcis-sur-Aube in Champagne in France (7th c.)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Sebastian of Poshekhonye, founder of Sokhotsk Monastery, Yaroslavl (1500)
New Martyr John the Cabinetmaker (John Calphas, "the Apprentice"), by beheading,
at Constantinople (1575)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Sylvester (Olshevsky), Archbishop of Omsk, Bishop of Prilutsk
and Vicar of Poltava (1920)
New Hieromartyr Peter Varlamov, Priest of Ufim (1930)
New Hieromartyr Sergius Voskresensky, Priest (1933)
Virgin-martyr Anna Blagoveshchensky (1937)
New Hieromartyr John (Pashin), Bishop of Rylsk (Rila) (1938)
New Hieromartyr John Dunaev, Priest (1938)
Other commemorations
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