This Day Trivia - february 26th

Events

1993 World Trade Center in New York is bombed killing six and injuring over 1,000.

1991 Desert Storm Two U.S. A-10 aircraft mistakenly fire on British armored personnel carriers, killing nine British soldiers.

1986 Ferdinand Marcos The Philippine president flees the country, ending his 20-year rule, following reports of widespread fraud during the presidential election.

1984 World indoor long jump record 28 feet 10.25 inches by Carl Lewis.

1981 Money for Nothing The basis for the 1993 movie is provided when Joey Coyle picks up $1.2 million that fell out of an armored car and goes on a spending spree. He was arrested six days later but acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.

1952 Great Britain announces that it has developed an atomic bomb.

1951 22nd Amendment ratified, limiting the number of times a President may be elected to two.

1935 Radar is first demonstrated, by British physicist Robert Watson-Watt.

Births

1932 Johnny Cash d. 2003 (John R. Cash), American Country Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grammy-winning country music singer, "The Man in Black."

1928 Fats Domino (Antoine Domino), American singer. Music: Blueberry Hill (1956). He recorded The Fat Man (1949), which is considered to be the first rock 'n' roll song.

1928 Ariel "Arik" Sharon Prime Minister of Israel (2001-).

1928 Arial Sharon d. 2014 Israeli Prime Minister, general.

1920 Tony Randall (Leonard Rosenberg), American actor. TV: The Odd Couple (Felix Unger).

1919 Mason Adams American actor. TV: Lou Grant (Charlie Hume).

1916 Jackie Gleason d. 1987 (Herbert John Gleason), American Tony-winning actor. Broadway: Take Me Along (1959, Tony, as the hard-drinking Uncle Sid). TV: The Honeymooners (Ralph Kramden).

1877 Rudolph Dirks d. 1968 American cartoonist, creator of Katzenjammer Kids (1897).

1876 Pauline Musters d. 1895 Dutch dwarf, world's shortest adult. She was 24 inches tall at age 19. Source: Guinness Book of World Records

1866 Herbert Henry Dow d. 1930 American chemist, pioneer in the U.S. chemical industry.

1857 Emile Coue d. 1926 French druggist. He created the psychotherapeutic technique of Coueism, which is based on repeating the saying "Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better."

1852 John Harvey Kellogg d. 1943 American surgeon, invented grain flakes cereal.

1846 Buffalo Bill d. 1917 (William Frederick Cody), American showman, Pony Express rider who formed the famous Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

1829 Levi Strauss d. 1902 (Löb Strauß), Bavarian-born American, invented blue jeans (1850).

1802 Victor Marie Hugo d. 1885 French poet, author. Writings: Les Misérables (1862). He was exiled from France (1851) for his opposition to Louis Napoleon.

Deaths

1969 Karl Jaspers b. 1883 German philosopher, promoter of the philosophy of existentialism.

1903 Richard Jordan Gatling b. 1818 American physician, invented the rapid-fire machine gun (1862) that bears his name.

1884 Alexander Wood b. 1817 Scottish physician, the first to use a syringe to inject medicine (1855).

1813 Robert R. Livingston b. 1746 American patriot, member of the Continental Congress. He administered the oath of office to George Washington in 1789.