Liberation
Day (Kuwait)
Savior's Day (Nation of Islam)
Events
February
26
1946 – Finnish observers report
the first of many thousands of
sightings of ghost rockets.
1971 – U.N. Secretary General
U Thant signs United Nations proclamation
of the vernal equinox as Earth
Day.
1993 – World Trade Center bombing:
In New York City, a truck bomb
parked below the North Tower of
the World Trade Center explodes,
killing 6 and injuring over a
thousand.
1995 – The United Kingdom's oldest
investment banking institute,
Barings Bank, collapses after
a securities broker, Nick Leeson,
loses $1.4 billion by speculating
on the Singapore International
Monetary Exchange using futures
contracts.
2004 – Republic of Macedonia President
Boris Trajkovski is killed in
a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
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