World.- In the ephemeris of this February 26 Several important ones that marked the history of humanity stand out, for example: in 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from the island of Elba, reorganized his Army and began the so-called “Hundred Days Period”, until his final defeat at Waterloo.
What are the ephemeris of February 26?
1549.- The Nicaraguan Bishop Antonio de Valdivieso, a disciple of Bartolomé de las Casas, is assassinated by order of former Governor Rodrigo de Contreras.
1782.- The writer and soldier José Cadalso dies after being hit in the temple by a shrapnel helmet during the Spanish siege of Gibraltar.
1815.- Napoleon Bonaparte, who had been forced to abdicate, escapes from the island of Elba and prepares to regain power in France.
1869.- The Assembly of Representatives of the Center declares the abolition of slavery in Camagüey (Cuba).
1909.- The Austro-Hungarian Empire officially annexes the province of Bosnia and Herzegovina after reaching an agreement with the Ottoman Empire.
1920.- The film “The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari” is released, directed by Robert Wiene and considered the masterpiece of German expressionism.
1936.- The uprising of members of the Imperial Japanese Army is suffocated by order of Emperor Hirohito.
1949.- A civic-military movement overthrows the president of Paraguay, General Raimundo Rolón.
1951.- The United States ratifies the XXII amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits a president from holding office for more than two consecutive terms.
1961.- Hasan II becomes king of Morocco after the death of his father, the monarch Mohamed V.
1963.- Former Colonel Antoine Argoud, leader of the nationalist organization OAS, is arrested by the French secret service in Munich (Germany), accused of the attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle.
1971.- The Colombian police and army repress student protests and cause several deaths, dozens of injuries and thousands of detainees in the so-called “Cali Massacre”.
1976.- The last Spanish soldiers left Western Sahara, thus ending almost a century of Hispanic presence in African territory.
1988.- The legislature of Panama replaces President Eric Arturo Delvalle with Manuel Solis de Palma, in a maneuver led by the head of the Armed Forces, Manuel Antonio Noriega.
1999.- The integrated circuit manufacturer Intel launches its Pentium III microprocessor, which incorporated the SSE instructions, especially suitable for MPEG2 audio and video coding standards.
2001.-The members of the European Union sign the Treaty of Nice, which reforms the institutional structure to face the enlargement of the organization.
2009.- The Court of The Hague acquits the former president of Serbia, Milan Milutinovic, of the crimes committed against the Albanian minority in Kosovo.
2015.- The Saudi terrorist Khalid Al Fawaz is found guilty of the attacks with fatalities on the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salam in 1998.
2018.- The Government of Nigeria denounces the kidnapping of 110 girls from an institute by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram.
2020.- Brazil confirms the first case registered by Covid-19 in Latin America.
2021.- The US holds the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohamed bin Salmán, responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
Who was born on a February 26?
1564.- Christopher Marlowe, English playwright.
1802.- Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist and playwright.
1808.- Honoré Daumier, French painter and caricaturist.
1829.- Levi Strauss, American businessman.
1846.- William Frederick Cody, “Buffalo Bill”, American soldier, explorer and actor.
1900.- Jean Negulesco, American film director of Romanian origin.
1912.- Dane Clark, American actor.
1916.- Jackie Gleason, American actor.
1920.- Tony Randall, American actor.
1921.- Eulalio Ferrer, Mexican writer and publicist born in Spain.
1924.- Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician.
1928.- Fats Domino, American musician.
1932.- Johnny Cash, American country music singer.
1947.- Sandie Shaw, British singer.
1953.- Michael Bolton, American singer.
1958.- Michel Houellebecq, French writer.
1963.- Nacho Cano, Spanish musician, from the band Mecano.
1964.- David Summers, Spanish singer.
1973.- Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian footballer.
1978.- Tom Beck, German actor and singer.
1979.- Corinne Bailey Rae, British singer.
1984.- Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer.
1986.- Leila Lopes, Angolan model.
1990.- Guido Pizarro, Argentine soccer player.
1991.- CL, South Korean singer and rapper.
1997.- Malcom, Brazilian soccer player.
Who died on a February 26?
1561.- Jorge de Montemayor, author of “Diana”, the first pastoral novel written in Spanish.
1821.- Joseph de Maistre, French politician and philosopher.
1889.- Karl Davidov, Russian composer.
1931.- Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1961.- Mohammed V, Moroccan king.
1969.- Karl Jaspers, German philosopher and psychiatrist.
1971.- Fernandel, French comic actor.
1982.- Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist.
2000.- Joan of Savoy (“Queen Joan”), mother of King Simeon II of Bulgaria.
2001.- Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer.
2004.- Boris Traykovski, President of Macedonia.
2005.- Jef Raskin, American mathematician and computer scientist.
2013.- Dale Robertson, American actor.
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