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View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... Historical Events on February 26
February 26 Nabonassar's name in Akkadian 747 BC – According to Ptolemy , the reign of the Babylonian king Nabonassar (name in Akkadian pictured) began, marking a new era characterized by the systematic maintenance of chronologically precise historical records.
The February 26 incident (二・二六事件, Ni Ni-Roku Jiken, also known as the 2–26 incident) was an attempted coup d'état in the Empire of Japan on 26 February 1936. It was organized by a group of young Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) officers with the goal of purging the government and military leadership of their factional rivals and ideological opponents.
February 26, 1966: Launch of AS-201 AS-201 , the first test flight of the Saturn IB rocket and of the Apollo capsule , was successful. The uncrewed spacecraft was sent 310 miles (500 km) into space, and the capsule's heat shields withstood 5,000 °F (2,760 °C) of heat during re-entry through the Earth's atmosphere.
1606 – Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon made the first recorded European landing in Australia, although he believed that he was on New Guinea.; 1815 – Napoleon escaped from the Italian island of Elba (depicted), to which he had been exiled after the signing of the Treaty of Fontainebleau.
The following events occurred in February 1926: Monday, February 1, 1926 ... the precursor of Black History Month. [13] ... February 26, 1926
Disasters and accidents Air Kasthamandap Flight 9N-AJB, from Nepalgunj headed to the Jumla District, crashes in a field in the Kalikot District mountains in northern Nepal, killing the two pilots and injuring all nine passengers, one seriously. (CNN) (The Kathmandu Post) Health and medicine Because of the risk of Zika virus infection, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...
Health and environment A study finds that sleep loss can alter gene behavior, which may explain why it often precedes medical problems such as diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. (Bloomberg) Pediatric clinical trials of Amgen's Sensipar, used to treat various hyperparathyroidism problems which result in abnormal levels of serum calcium, are halted in the United States after a 14-year-old ...