WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 2025

1616-The Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism, which states the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun

1916-Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract

1923-Italian nationalist & fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts)

1936-Military coup in Japan

1952-PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb

1962-U.S. Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation

1980-Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for first time

1991-Gulf War: Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait, killing hundreds and creating the so-called 'Highway of Death'

2005-President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak orders the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections, asking the Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76