Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 26

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  Grand Canyon, Arizona
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  Coin featuring bust of Valentinian I
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  Robert Watson-Watt
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  Superliner railcars
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  Napoleon leaving Elba
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  Takahashi Korekiyo
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  "Livery Stable Blues"

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Blurb	Reason
Liberation Day in Kuwait (1991)	needs more footnotes
364 – Following the death of the Roman emperor Jovian, officers of the army at Nicaea in Bithynia selected Flavius Valentinianus to succeed him.	refimprove section
1266 – Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines: Manfred, King of Sicily, was killed in the Battle of Benevento against the forces of Charles of Anjou.	Too much uncited, including entire sections
1909 – The first films made with Kinemacolor, the earliest successful colour motion picture process, were shown to the British general public.	unreferenced section
1919 – U.S. president Woodrow Wilson signed a law that designated most of Arizona's Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River that is considered to be one of the major natural wonders of the world, as a national park.	GC: refimprove sections; GCNP: refimprove
1946 – Finnish observers reported the first sightings of unidentified flying objects known as "ghost rockets", which have not yet been positively identified.	refimprove, needs more footnotes
1966 – The Saturn IB rocket launched for the first time from Florida's Cape Canaveral.	no footnotes
1993 – A bomb-laden van exploded underneath the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six and injuring more than one thousand people.	refimprove sections, expansion
Herbert Henry Dow |b|1866|	Birthday uncited
Mary Whiton Calkins |d|1930	unreferenced sections

Eligible

• 1606 – Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon made the first recorded European landing in Australia, although he believed that he was on New Guinea.
• 1815 – Napoleon escaped from the Italian island of Elba (depicted), to which he had been exiled after the signing of the Treaty of Fontainebleau.
• 1903 – Storm Ulysses struck Ireland, felling thousands of trees and causing damage to up to a quarter of all houses in Dublin.
• 1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band recorded "Livery Stable Blues", the first jazz single ever released.
• 1935 – Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe reinstated, violating the Treaty of Versailles signed at the end of World War I.
• 1935 – With the aid of a radio station in Daventry, England, and two receiving antennae, Scottish engineer and inventor Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated the use of radar.
• 1936 – Imperial Japanese Army troops attempted a coup d'etat, occupying parts of Tokyo, and killing several politicians, including finance minister Takahashi Korekiyo.
• 2008 – In the first significant cultural visit from the United States to North Korea since the Korean War, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra performed in Pyongyang.
• 2012 – African-American teenager Trayvon Martin was killed by neighborhood-watch coordinator George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, prompting a nationwide controversy.
• 2013 – A hot air balloon crashed near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people in the deadliest ballooning disaster in history.
• Born/died this day: | John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford |d|1462| Lorenzino de' Medici |d|1548| Thomas-Alexandre Dumas |d|1806| Camille Flammarion |b|1842| Kenneth Edgeworth |b|1880| Reginald St John Battersby|b|1900| Howard Hanson |d|1981| Mahra Al Maktoum |b|1994|Raosaheb Gogte |d|2000| Joseph Wapner |d|2017 |

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• 747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the reign of the Babylonian king Nabonassar (name in Akkadian pictured) began, marking a new era characterized by the systematic maintenance of chronologically precise historical records.
• 1914 – RMS Britannic, the third and largest Olympic-class ocean liner of the White Star Line after Template:RMS and RMS Titanic, was launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
• 1979 – The Superliner railcar entered revenue service with Amtrak.
• 1995 – Barings Bank, the oldest merchant bank in London, was declared insolvent after its head derivatives trader in Singapore, Nick Leeson, lost £827 million while making unauthorised trades on futures contracts.
• 2014 – Former editor-in-chief of Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao Kevin Lau was stabbed, prompting concerns and protests about media freedom.