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Friday, February 26, 2016

Today in History

364
On the death of Jovian, a conference at Nicaea chooses Valentinan, an army officer who was born in the central European region of Pannania, to succeed him in Asia Minor.
1154
William the Bad succeeds his father, Roger the II, in Sicily.
1790
As a result of the Revolution, France is divided into 83 departments.
1815
Napoleon and 1,200 of his men leave Elba to start the 100-day re-conquest of France.
1848
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish The Communist Manifesto in London.
1871
France and Prussia sign a preliminary peace treaty at Versailles.
1901
Boxer Rebellion leaders Chi-Hsin and Hsu-Cheng-Yu are publicly executed in Peking.
1914
Russian aviator Igor Sikorsky carries 17 passengers in a twin engine plane in St. Petersburg.
1916
General Henri Philippe Petain takes command of the French forces at Verdun.
1917
President Wilson publicly asks congress for the power to arm merchant ships.
1924
U.S. steel industry finds claims an eight-hour day increases efficiency and employee relations.
1933
Ground is broken for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
1936
Japanese military troops march into Tokyo to conduct a coup and assassinate political leaders.
1941
British take the Somali capital in East Africa.
1943
U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators pound German docks and U-boat lairs at Wilhelmshaven.
1945
Syria declares war on Germany and Japan.
1951
The 22nd Amendment is added to the Constitution limiting the Presidency to two terms.
1964
Lyndon B. Johnson signs a tax bill with $11.5 billion in cuts.
1965
Norman Butler is arrested for the murder of Malcom X.
1968
Thirty-two African nations agree to boycott the Olympics because of the presence of South Africa.
1970
Five Marines are arrested on charges of murdering 11 South Vietnamese women and children.
1972
Soviets recover Luna 20 with a cargo of moon rocks.
1973
A publisher and 10 reporters are subpoenaed to testify on Watergate.
1990
Daniel Ortega, communist president of Nicaragua, suffers a shocking election defeat at the hands of Violeta Chamorro.
1993
A bomb rocks the World Trade Center in New York City. Five people are killed and hundreds suffer from smoke inhalation.

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