History February Calendar February 26
February 26

This Day in History

6 historical events

National Events (6)

2012

Trayvon Martin shooting

Unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida

Read More
2012

Trayvon Martin shooting

Unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida

Read More
1993

World Trade Center bombing

A terrorist truck bomb exploded in the parking garage beneath the North Tower of New York’s World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000

Read More
1993

World Trade Center bombing

A terrorist truck bomb exploded in the parking garage beneath the North Tower of New York’s World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000

Read More
1616

Copernican theory condemned

The Catholic Church formally declared Nicolaus Copernicus’s heliocentric idea (that the Earth orbits the Sun) ā€œfalse and contrary to Scriptureā€ and banned his book De revolutionibus pending correction

Read More
1616

Copernican theory condemned

The Catholic Church formally declared Nicolaus Copernicus’s heliocentric idea (that the Earth orbits the Sun) ā€œfalse and contrary to Scriptureā€ and banned his book De revolutionibus pending correction

Read More
Previous Day Back to Calendar Next Day