1839: The UK had its first Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool.
There were a total of 17 runners, and the winner was Jem Mason.
1909: Kinemacolor, the first successful colour motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
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1914: HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
1616: The Roman Inquisition ordered Galileo not to teach or defend his theory that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun.
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.
1919: President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park – the Grand Canyon National Park.
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: President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
1935: Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.
1952: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill went public that Britain had its first atomic bomb and planned to test it in Australia by the end of the year.
1966: Apollo Program- Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket.
1971: U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1980: Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
1991: The first 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.
2013: Nineteen tourists were killed in a hot air balloon crash in Luxor, Egypt.
There were twenty-one people on board when a gas leak caused the balloon to deflate and crash to the ground.
Births on this day February 26
Danny Mac, 36
Danny Mac is an English actor, best known for playing the role of Dodger Savage in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2011 to 2015. He won The British Soap Award for Sexiest Male.
Tunde Kelani, 76 years
He is a Nigerian filmmaker popularly known as TK . In a career spanning more than four decades, TK specialises in producing movies that promote Nigeria’s rich cultural heritage and have a root in documentation, archiving, education, entertainment and promotion of the culture. He owns Mainframe Films and Television Productions.
John Harvey Kellogg (26 February 1852 – 14 December 1943)
John Harvey Kellogg was an American businessman, inventor, physician, and advocate of the Progressive Movement. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, founded by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He died at the age of 91.
Ariel Sharon (26 February 1928 – 11 January 2014)
Ariel Sharon was an Israeli general and politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006. He died at the age of 85.
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