IT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: FEBRUARY 26

1895 What the heck is this monstrosity? It changed the world in more ways than you can imagine.  (See below)

 

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1616 Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileodemanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism, which states the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun

• 1732 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, St Joseph’s, Philadelphia

• 1797 Bank of England issues first £1 note

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1815 Napoleon Bonaparte and his supporters leave Elba to start a 100 day re-conquest of France

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1863 Abraham Lincoln signs National Currency Act, establishes single national US currency

• 1885 Berlin Conference “gives” Congo to Belgium and Nigeria to Great Britain
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• 1895 Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio, patents a glass-blowing machine:  It made bottles, light bulbs, you name it.  See story

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1916 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract

• 1919 Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona

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1929 US President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park

 

1933 Golden Gate Bridge groundbreaking ceremony held at Crissy Field

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1935 RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt

• 1941 2 fighters unable to continue slugfest, referee declares DOUBLE KO!

• 1944 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed

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• 1954 Michigan rep Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing “obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy” phonograph (rock & roll) records

• 1975 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)

• 2001 The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
  

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• 2013 A flexible battery capable of being charged wirelessly and folded and stretched is developed

• 2018 Cold weather nicknamed “the Beast from the East” hits Europe, killing 7 and covering Pompeii in snow

• 2018 Global Seed Vault opens in Svalbard, Norway, to help preserve diversity and loss from other genebanks

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