On This Day February 26 is the 57th day of 2014 with 308 days remaining of this year. 1862 - Battle of Woodburn, Kentucky. 1917 - The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first ever jazz record for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York. 1929 - The Grand Tetons in Wyoming is established as a national park in the United States. 1930 - First red and green traffic lights installed (Manhattan, New York City). 1933 - Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field, San Francisco. 1940 - US Air Defense Command established at Mitchell Field, Long Island, New York. 1941 - Cowboys Amateur Association of America organized (California). 1945 - Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force. 1946 - Two killed and ten wounded in race riot in Columbia, Tennessee, USA. 1949 - US Air Force plane begins first nonstop around-the-world flight. 1953 - Allen W Dulles is promoted from deputy to 5th director of US Central Intelligence Agency. 1954 - First typesetting machine (photo engraving) is used, in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. 1954 - Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (Republican) introduces legislation to ban mailing obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy phonograph (rock and roll) records. 1962 - US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation. 1966 - The launch of AS-201 marks the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket. 1970 - National Public Radio incorporates as a non-profit corporation. 1972 - Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, USA, kills 125. 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. 1979 - Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental USA. 1983 - Michael Jacksons Thriller album goes to number one on chart and stays there for 37 weeks. 1984 - Last US marines in multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon leave Beirut. 1984 - Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named first US poet laureate. 1984 - Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called New York City Hymietown. 1985 - 27th Grammy Awards: Whats Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper win. 1987 - The Tower Commission rebukes U.S. President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his National Security staff. 1987 - NASA launches GEOS-H. 1993 - In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over 1,000. 1996 - Silicon Graphics makes a cash tender offer of US$30 per share for 75 percent of Cray Research stock, for a total cost of US$576 million. The merger is expected to be completed by June. 1997 - 39th Grammy Awards: Change the World Babyface, Beck and LeAnn Rimes win. 1998 - Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial. 2003 - An American businessman is admitted to the Vietnam France Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam with the first identified case of SARS. WHO doctor Carlo Urbani reports the unusual highly contagious disease to WHO. 2004 - The United States lifts a 23-year travel ban against Libya. 2009 - US President Barack Obama proposes a 2009/10 budget of US$3.6 trillion, with a US$1.75 trillion deficit, the highest ever, amounting to a 12.3 percent share of the economy, the largest since 1945. Planned spending includes US$634 billion to pay for healthcare reform, US$200 billion fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and an extra US$250 billion set aside in case it is needed to bail out US banks. 2009 - American automaker General Motors reports it lost US$30.8 billion for 2008. Over the past four years, the companys US$82 billion losses is equivalent to about $56 million a day.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:00:00 +0000
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