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02/26/1891
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Alan Bridge, PA, actor (North of Arizona, Badmen of the Hills)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1891
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1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park
Type: Event
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02/26/1893
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Ivor A "I A" Richards, English poet/critic (Meaning of Meaning) [NS]
Type: Birth
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02/26/1893
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2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Mich
Type: Event
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02/26/1893
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William Frawley, Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1893
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Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500m (48 sec)
Type: Event
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02/26/1895
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Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine
Type: Event
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02/26/1896
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Andrei A Zjdanov, Russian politician (against kosmopolitism)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1896
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Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer
Type: Birth
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02/26/1898
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Julien de Valckenaere, Flemish writer
Type: Birth
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02/26/1900
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Jean Negulesco, Craiova Romania, director (Johnny Belinda, Jessica)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1901
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Chi-hsui, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
Type: Death
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02/26/1901
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Hsu Cheng-yu, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
Type: Death
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02/26/1902
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Rudolf Moralt, German conductor (Vienna Philharmonic)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1902
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Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Le Silence de la Mer)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1903
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Richard J Gatling, US inventor (Gatling Gun), dies at 84
Type: Death
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02/26/1906
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Madeleine Carroll, England, actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1906
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Nikos Ghika, artist
Type: Birth
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02/26/1906
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Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer, dies at 70
Type: Death
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02/26/1907
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US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500
Type: Event
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02/26/1907
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Royal Oil and Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
Type: Event
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02/26/1908
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Tex Avery, cartoon director (What's up, Doc?)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1909
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Caran d'Ache, [Emmanuel Poir‚], French illustrator, dies
Type: Death
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02/26/1909
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Phyllis Fanny Primrose-Pechey Cradock, TV Chef
Type: Birth
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02/26/1911
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Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia MP chairman
Type: Birth
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02/26/1912
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Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01)
Type: Event
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02/26/1913
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Felix Draeseke, composer, dies at 77
Type: Death
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02/26/1913
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Jon Hall, Fresno Calif, actor (Ramor of the Jungle)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1913
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Hermann Lenz, writer
Type: Birth
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02/26/1913
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George G Barker, English poet (Calamiterror, Anno Domini)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1914
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Witold Rowicki, composer
Type: Birth
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02/26/1914
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Robert Alda, NYC, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1914
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New York Museum of Science and Industry incorporated
Type: Event
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02/26/1915
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Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poetess (That Woman and Other Verses)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1915
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Malancourt, Argonnen (1st (German) flame-thrower
Type: Event
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02/26/1915
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Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher
Type: Birth
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02/26/1916
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Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia
Type: Event
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02/26/1916
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Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract
Type: Event
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02/26/1916
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Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930
Type: Event
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02/26/1916
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Ross Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman 1936-37, died in WW II)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1916
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Mordecai Seter, composer
Type: Birth
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02/26/1917
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1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)
Type: Event
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02/26/1917
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Robert Taft Jr, (Sen-R-Oh)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1918
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Otis R Bowen, US Sec of Health and Human Services (1985-89)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1918
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Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe, baseball pitcher (Bkln Dodgers)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1918
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Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1918
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Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse and burn, killing 604
Type: Event
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02/26/1919
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Beppie Nooij, actress/director (Bluejackets-Rooie Sien)
Type: Birth
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02/26/1919
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Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
Type: Event
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02/26/1919
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Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine
Type: Event
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