At present is Wednesday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2025. There are 308 days left within the yr.
At present in historical past:
On Feb. 26, 1993, a truck bomb constructed by Islamic extremists exploded within the parking storage of the North Tower of New York’s World Commerce Heart, killing six folks and injuring greater than 1,000 others. (The bomb did not topple the North Tower into the South Tower, because the terrorists had hoped; each buildings had been destroyed within the 9/11 assault eight years later.)
Additionally on this date:
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the Island of Elba, crusing again to France in a bid to regain energy.
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signed an act making the Grand Canyon a nationwide park.
In 1952, Prime Minister Winston Churchill introduced that Britain had developed its personal atomic bomb.
In 1987, the Tower Fee, which had probed the Iran-Contra affair, issued its report, which rebuked President Ronald Reagan for failing to regulate his nationwide safety employees.
In 1998, a jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit introduced by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey’s speak present for a worth fall after a section on meals security that included a dialogue about mad cow illness.
In 2012, Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot to loss of life in Sanford, Florida, throughout an altercation with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who mentioned he acted in self-defense. (Zimmerman was later acquitted of second-degree homicide.)
In 2013, a scorching air balloon burst into flames throughout a dawn flight over the traditional Egyptian metropolis of Luxor after which plummeted 1,000 toes (305 meters) to earth, killing 19 vacationers.
In 2017, On the Academy Awards, “Moonlight” gained three Oscars, together with greatest image of 2016; in a startling gaffe, the musical “La La Land” was mistakenly introduced as the most effective image winner earlier than the error was corrected.
At present’s birthdays:
- Singer Mitch Ryder is 80.
- Singer Michael Bolton is 72.
- Hockey Corridor of Famer Joe Mullen is 68.
- Actor Greg Germann is 67.
- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., is 67.
- Singer Erykah Badu (EHR’-ih-kah bah-DOO’) is 54.
- Filmmaker Sean Baker is 54.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Marshall Faulk is 52.
- Olympic swimming gold medalist Jenny Thompson is 52.
- Singer Corinne Bailey Rae is 46.
- Tennis Corridor of Famer Li Na is 43.
- Singer Natalia Lafourcade is 41.
