February 26 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for February 26
In the headlines today:

1995	Barings, England's oldest investment banking company, fails after a securities broker loses over $1 billion gambling on Tokyo stock prices.
1993	Six people die and more than a thousand are injured when Islamic extremists explode a bomb in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City.
1990	President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua concedes defeat to election opponent, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.
1987	The Tower Commission report is issued, chiding US president Ronald Reagan for his national security staff's actions in the Iran-Contra affair.
1979	A total solar eclipse casts a huge shadow from Oregon to North Dakota.
1961	Mohammed V, King of Morocco, dies.
1952	Britain announces that it has its own atomic bomb.
1951	The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, which limits a president to two terms of office, is ratified.
1940	The US Air Defense Command is created.
1929	Grand Teton National Park is established.
1925	Oregon adopts its state flag.
1919	Grand Canyon National Park is established.
1903	Richard Gattling, rapid-fire gun (the Gattling gun) inventor, dies.