26 Februar

The **26t o Februar** is the 57t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 308 days ti come (309 in lowp years).

## Events

*1815 - Napoleon I escapes frae exile on the isle o Elba.
*1852 - The Ryal Navy troop transporter "Birkenhead" sinks aff Sooth Africae, killin 450 oot o 643 fowk on baird.
*1885 - The Berlin Africae Conference is held, tae draw up European colonial boundaries in Africae.
*1914 - The ship HMS Britannic is launched at Harland an Wolff, Belfast.
*1917 - Denali Naitional Pairk is creatit in Alaska, Unitit States.
*1929 - The Grand Teton Naitional Pairk is creatit in Wyoming, Unitit States.
*1936 - The 26t o Februar coup attempt takes place in Japan.
*1961 - Hassan II o Morocco becomes King.
*1966 - An unmanned Apollo spacecraft is launched on a test flicht.
*1972 - The Buffalo Creek flood in Wast Virginie kills 125 fowk, efter a dam burst.
*1980 - Israel an Egyp establish full diplomatic relations.
*1991 - Gulf War: Iraq's forces are forcit oot o Kuwait.
*1993 - A bomb explodes in the car pairk o New York Ceety's Warld Trade Center.
*1997 - Deng Xiaoping's funeral is braidcast across the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae.
*2000 - The Hekla volcano in Iceland erupts.
*2006 - End o the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
*2013 - A hot-air balloon crash in Egyp kills 19 fowk.
*2016 - Gianni Infantino is electit Preses o FIFA.

## Births

*1564 - Christopher Marlowe, Inglis playwricht an poet (d. 1593)
*1629 - Archibald Campbell, 9t Yerl o Argyll, Scots peer an sodger (d. 1685)
*1787 - James Rennie, Scots naituralist (d. 1867)
*1802 - Victor Hugo, French novelist (d. 1885)
*1808 - Honoré Daumier, French airtist (d. 1879)
*1832 - Thomas Anderson, Scots botanist (d. 1870)
*1846 - Buffalo Bill, American Western showman (d. 1917)
*1861 - Ferdinand I o Bulgarie (d. 1948)
*1869 - Nadezhda Krupskaya, Roushie revolutionary an politeecian (d. 1939)
*1903 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist (d. 1979)
*1916 - Jackie Gleason, American actor (d. 1987)
*1920 - Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
*1928 - Fats Domino, American sangster (d. 2017)
*1928 - Ariel Sharon, Prime meenister o Israel (d. 2014)
*1931 - Ally MacLeod, Scots fitbawer (d. 2004)
*1932 - Johnny Cash, American sangster an muisicker (d. 2003)
*1946 - Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian chemist (d. 2016)
*1950 - Helen Clark, umwhile Prime meenister o New Zealand
*1954 - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Preses o Turkey
*1958 - Tim Kaine, American politeecian
*1959 - Ahmet Davutoglu, umwhile Prime meenister o Turkey
*1973 - Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Norse fitbawer
*1977 - Shane Williams, Welsh rugby player
*1982 - Li Na, Cheenese tennis player
*1983 - Pepe, Portuguese fitbawer
*1984 - Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese fitbawer
*1985 - Fernando Llorente, Spainyie fitbawer
*1986 - Hannah Kearney, American freestyle skier

## Daiths
* 1275 - Margaret o Ingland, Queen o Scots (b. 1240)
* 1577 - Eric XIV o Swaden (b. 1533)
* 1861 - Francis Adams, Scots translator (b. 1796)
* 1931 - Otto Wallach, German chemist (b. 1847)
* 1950 - Harry Lauder, Scots comedian an actor (b. 1870)
* 1961 - Mohammed VI o Morocco (b. 1909)
* 1969 - Levi Eshkol, Prime meenister o Israel (b. 1895)
* 1969 - Karl Jaspers, German philosopher (b. 1883)

## Halidays
* Liberation Day (Kuwait)