Today is Saturday, February 26, the 57th day of 2011. There are 308 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
1848 ― Marx and Engels publish ``The Communist Manifesto"
1852 ― British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa; 458 die
1923 ― Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts)
1930 ― First red and green traffic lights installed (Manhattan, NYC)
1936 ― Military coup in Japan
1952 ― P.M. Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own atomic bomb
1980 ― Egypt and Israel exchange ambassadors for the first time
1983 ― Michael Jackson's ``Thriller" album goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 37 weeks