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Notable anniversaries in history for today: February 26
- 700th: 1324 - Dino Compagni Italian silk seller/poet/chronicler, dies.
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of Carlos Calvo; Argentine diplomat/people rights scholar (Calvo Clause).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Mark Bucci in New York City, New York, USA; composer (1959 Arts and Letters Award).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Noboru Takeshita; Japanese Prime Minister (1987-89).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Barbara Meek; actress (Archie Bunker's Place, Big Brother Jake).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Ron Gaunt; cricket player (Australian fast bowler late 50s early 60s).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Marilyn Michaels; comedienne (ABC Comedy Hour).
- 70th: 1954 - First typesetting machine (photo engraving) is used, in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of John Bolger; actor (Captain Gabe McNamara - Another World).
- 70th: 1954 - Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (Republican) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock and roll) records.
- 60th: 1964 - Boxer Cassius Clay announces he is changing his name to Muhammad Ali.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Ron Fox; soccer player (Willem II).
- 50th: 1974 - Gold hits record US$188 an ounce in Paris, France. Silver peaks at US$6.70 per ounce.
- 40th: 1984 - Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse.
- 40th: 1984 - Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named first US poet laureate.
- 40th: 1984 - Last US marines in multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon leave Beirut.
- 30th: 1994 - Avery Fisher, US audio manufacturer (first hi-fi), dies at age 87.
- 30th: 1994 - NHL's Saint Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1.
- 25th: 1999 - Intel announces the 500 MHz Pentium III processor. The processor introduces 70 new Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE).
- 20th: 2004 - The United States lifts a 23-year travel ban against Libya.
- 20th: 2004 - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash while landing in poor weather near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 15th: 2009 - American automaker General Motors reports it lost US$30.8 billion for 2008. Over the past four years, the company's US$82 billion losses is equivalent to about $56 million a day.
- 15th: 2009 - Former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic is acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia regarding war crimes during the Kosovo War.
- 15th: 2009 - US President Barack Obama proposes a 2009/10 budget of US$3.6 trillion, with a US$1.75 trillion deficit, the highest ever, amounting to a 12.3 percent share of the economy, the largest since 1945. Planned spending includes US$634 billion to pay for healthcare reform, US$200 billion fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and an extra US$250 billion set aside in case it is needed to bail out US banks.
- 5th: 2019 - (to January 27) The Indian Air Force launches airstrikes on purported militant camps in Balakot, Pakistan.
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