History for February 26

History for February 26 - On-This-Day.com:
Nicolas Joseph Cugnot 1725 - Inventor, Victor Hugo 1802 - Author, Levi Strauss 1829 - Businessman, founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans


John Harvey Kellogg 1852, Jackie Gleason 1916, Johnny Cash 1932 - Musician


1863 - U.S. President Lincoln signed the National Currency Act.


1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-powered subway line was opened to the public. (Beach Pneumatic Transit)


1907 - The U.S. Congress raised their own pay to $7500.


1919 - In Arizona, the Grand Canyon was established as a National Park with an act of the U.S. Congress.


1929 - U.S. President Coolidge signed a bill creating the Grand Teton National Park.


1993 - Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.


1995 - Barings PLC collapsed after a securities dealer lost more than $1.4 billion by gambling on Tokyo stock prices. The company was Britain's oldest investment banking firm.


1998 - In Oregon, a health panel rules that taxpayers must help to pay for doctor-assisted suicides.