Today is Tuesday, February 26, the 57th day of 2013. 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 & Engels publish “The Communist Manifesto”
1907 ― Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
1930 ― First red and green traffic lights installed (Manhattan, NYC)
1936 ― Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche’s “Volkswagen”
1936 ― Military coup in Japan
1952 ― P.M. Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own atomic bomb
1970 ― Beatles release “Beatles Again” aka “Hey Jude” album
1983 ― Michael Jackson’s “Thriller" album goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 37 weeks
1995 ― London finance house of Barings collapse after losses in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson