Today is Thursday, February 26, the 57th day of 2009. There are 308 days left in the year.
1531 _ Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000
1797 _ Bank of England issues 1st banknote
1815 _ Napoleon and 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day reconquest of France
1848 _ Marx and Engels publish ``The Communist Manifesto"
1916 _ Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract
1924 _ Trial against Hitler in Munich begins
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
1984 _ Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named first U.S. poet laureate
1984 _ Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse