February 26th

1797 ~ The Bank of England issued the first one pound note.

1802 ~ Birthday of Victor Hugo, Poet.

1848 ~ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto in London.

1903 ~ Death of Richard Gatling, Inventor.

1918 ~ Birthday of Theodore Sturgeon, Science Fiction writer.

1935 ~ Robert Watson-Watt gave the first demonstration of RADAR.

1991 ~ Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.

1993 ~ World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center exploded, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.

1994 ~ Death of Bill Hicks, Comedian.

2001 ~ The Taliban destroyed two giant buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
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eudamonia

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney