On This Day:
Wednesday February 26, 2014 This is the 57th day of the year, with 308 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in 1984 and debuted as a comic book. This inspired a television cartoon show, which catapulted the characters into a nationwide merchandising craze. The four anthropomorphic turtles - Donatello (purple bandana), Leonardo (blue bandana), Michelangelo (orange bandana), and Raphael (red bandana), each named for their master's (Master Splinter) favorite Renaissance artists - avoided overt violence and any semblance of real conflict.
Holidays Feast day of St. Alexander of Alexandria, St. Porphyry of Gaza, St. Nestor of Magydus, and St. Victor the Hermit.
Events 1815 - Napoleon left his exile on the island of Elba, returning to France to attempt a second conquest.
1919 - Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
1929 - President Calvin Coolidge established Grand Teton National Park.
1933 - Ground was broken for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
1935 - Nazi leader Adolf Hitler signed a secret decree authorizing the founding of the Reich Luftwaffe as a third German military service to join the Reich army and navy.
1951 - The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.
1952 - Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed its own atomic bomb.
1993 - A bomb built by a group of Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1000.
2001 - The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
2004 - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Births 1802 - Victor Hugo, French author.
1829 - Levi Strauss, American businessman, creator of blue jeans.
1846 - William Frederick Cody (Buffalo Bill), American frontiersman, showman.
1852 - John Harvey Kellogg, American physician who developed dry cereal.
1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation.
1916 - Jackie Gleason, American comedian, actor.
1920 - Tony Randall (born Arthur Leonard Rosenberg), American comic actor.
1928 - Fats (Antoine) Domino, American pianist, songwriter, singer.
1932 - Johnny Cash (born J. R. Cash) American country-western, and rock and roll singer and songwriter.
1950 - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand.
1954 - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey.
Deaths 1813 - Robert Livingston, New York representative at the Continental Congress.
1903 - Richard Gatling, American inventor of the Gatling gun.
2005 - Jef Raskin, a human-computer interface expert best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s.
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