02-26-2006, 08:01 AM
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February 26th
1797 ~ The Bank of England issued the first one pound note.
1802 ~ Birthday of Victor Hugo, Poet.
1848 ~ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto in London.
1852 ~ Birthday of John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of dry cereal.
1918 ~ Birthday of Theodore Sturgeon, Science Fiction writer.
1935 ~ Robert Watson-Watt gave the first demonstration of RADAR.
1944 ~ Filming of the Nazi propaganda film, "The Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews" began in Theresienstadt.
1991 ~ Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.
1991 ~ Kuwait City was liberated.
1993 ~ A van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City exploded, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.
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