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Events on February 26

• 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte leaves his place of exile on Elba and sets out for France to take power there anew.
• 1885 The Berlin Africa Conference confirms the Congo Free State as the private property of the Congo Company and thus of Leopold II of Belgium, and regulates the colonization of Africa. The Niger and Congo rivers are opened to navigation, and the prohibition of the slave trade is established internationally.
• 1901 Thomas Mann's social novel Buddenbrooks is published in two volumes by S. Fischer Verlag.
• 1924 In Munich, the high treason trial against Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff begins on account of the failed Hitler-Ludendorff putsch.
• 1935 Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins conduct the first field trial with radar near Daventry on the basis of their report "Recognition and Location of Aircraft by Radio".
• 1948 The Max Planck Society is founded in Göttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society.
• 1948 Walter Oehmichen opens the Augsburger Puppenkiste with "Puss in Boots".
• 1993 Islamist terrorists carry out a bomb attack on the former World Trade Center (1973–2001) in New York. When the explosive device detonates in the underground parking garage of the North Tower, six people are killed and hundreds are injured.
• 1996 Director Ang Lee is awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlinale for his film Sense and Sensibility, based on Jane Austen's novel.
• 2001 The Treaty of Nice, which concerns the enlargement of the EU and was adopted on 11 December of the previous year, is signed.
• 2006 The XX Olympic Winter Games end in Turin with a two-and-a-half-hour closing ceremony, at which, among others, Luciano Pavarotti performs the aria Nessun dorma from Puccini's Turandot.
• 2020 The German Federal Constitutional Court declares the criminalization of the commercial promotion of suicide (§ 217 of the German Criminal Code) unconstitutional.

Born on February 26

• 1852 John Harvey Kellogg, American physician and inventor of corn flakes
• 1861 Ferdinand I., Prince and Tsar of Bulgaria
• 1894 Wilhelm Bittrich, German general and SS-Obergruppenführer
• 1913 Hermann Lenz, German writer
• 1930 Erich Kiesl, German local politician and Lord Mayor of Munich
• 1941 Jobst Plog, German broadcasting executive
• 1950 Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1951 Franz Xaver Gernstl, German documentary filmmaker
• 1960 Hannes Jaenicke, German actor
• 1982 Li Na, Chinese tennis player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „26. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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