On this day: February 26th

On this day: February 26th

There are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: February 26th

Events On this day: February 26th

1797: The Bank of England issues the first one-pound note.
1815: Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1848: The Communist Manifesto pamphlet was published by two young socialists, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It advocated the abolition of all private property and a system in which workers own all means of production, land, factories, and machinery.
1909: A color motion picture is shown to the general public for the first time. A series of 21 short Kinemacolor films were presented at the Palace Theatre in London.
1917: The world’s first jazz record is created. The “Original Dixieland Jass Band” recorded “Livery Stable Blues” for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
1920: The first German Expressionist film is premiered. “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” by Robert Wiene is considered one of the best silent films of the horror genre.
1929: The Grand Teton National Park is created.
1935: Robert-Watson Watt first demonstrates RADAR.
1991: The world’s first web browser is presented to the public. The browser “WorldWideWeb” (later renamed “Nexus”) was developed by Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the Internet.
1993: A car bomb explodes below the World Trade Center in New York. The attack was carried out by a group of Islamist militants. 6 people died in the blast.
1994: Political foes of Russian President Boris Yeltsin were freed by a general amnesty granted by the new Russian Parliament.

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