Today is Wednesday, February twenty sixth, the 57th day of 2025. There are still 308 days a yr.
Today in history:
On February 26, 1993, a truck bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded within the parking garage of the North Tower of New York World Trade Center, killed six people and injured greater than 1,000 others. (The bomb couldn’t fall into the south tower of the north tower, because the terrorists had hoped; each structures were destroyed eight years later within the attack on September eleventh.)
Also on this date:
In 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the island of Elba and sailed to France to regain power.
In 1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Great Britain had developed its own atomic bomb.
In 1987 the Turm Commission, which the Iranian affair had examined, published its report, the President Ronald Reagan not stood as much as not control his national security personnel.
In 1998, a jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected a lawsuit of 11 million US dollars, which was submitted by Texas Cattlemen, which Oprah Winfrey's talk show blamed for a prize after a prize on food safety that had a discussion about crazy Cow diseases included.
In 2012, the 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, was shot George Zimmerman during a discussion of the volunteer of neighborhood statement, who said he had acted in self-defense. (Zimmerman was later acquitted resulting from the second degree murder.)
In 2013, a hot balloon broke up over the old Egyptian city of Luxor during a sunrise after which fell to the earth of 305 meters and killed 19 tourists.
In 2017, three Oscars, including one of the best picture of 2016, won the Oscar Award. In astonishing gaffe, the musical “La La Land” was wrongly announced as one of the best image winner before the error was corrected.
Today's birthdays:
- Singer Mitch Ryder is 80.
- Singer Michael Bolton is 72.
- The Hockey Hall of Famer Joe Mullen is 68.
- Actor Greg Germann is 67.
- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-VA., Is 67.
- Singer Erykah Badu (Ehr'-Ih-Kah-Kah Bah-Doo ') is 54.
- The filmmaker Sean Baker is 54.
- The football hall of Famer Marshall Faulk is 52.
- Jenny Thompson, gold medalist of the Olympic swimming, is 52.
- Singer Corinne Bailey Rae is 46.
- Tennis Hall of Famer Li Na is 43.
- Singer Natalia Lafourcade is 41.
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