Today is Tuesday, February 26, the 57th day of 2008. There are 309 days left in the year.
1531 _ Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000
1815 _ Napoleon and 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France
1918 _ Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse and burn, killing 604
1923 _ Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts)
1952 _ P.M. Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own atomic bomb
1970 _ Beatles release ``Beatles Again" aka ``Hey Jude" album
1977 _ First flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
1980 _ Egypt and Israel exchange ambassadors for the 1st time
1983 _ Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to No.1 and stays No. 1 for 37 weeks