FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Today is Friday, February 26, the 57th day of 2010. There are 308 days left in the year.

1815 _ Napoleon and 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France

1848 _ Marx and Engels publish ``The Communist Manifesto"

1923 _ Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts and black-shirts)

1930 _ First red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan, NYC)

1936 _ Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's ``Volkswagen"

1936 _ Military coup in Japan

1941 _ Two fighters unable to continue slugfest, referee declares double KO

1952 _ P.M. Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own atomic bomb

1983 _ Michael Jackson's ``Thriller" album goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 37 weeks

1993 _ Second-tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, seven die