Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 26
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February 26: Liberation Day in Kuwait (1991); Savior's Day in the Nation of Islam.
- 1266 - King Manfred of Sicily was killed at the Battle of Benevento, fighting Angevin forces led by Charles, the Count of Anjou.
- 1815 - The Hundred Days: Napoleon Bonaparte (pictured) escaped from exile in Elba.
- 1935 - In Daventry, England, Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated the use of radar.
- 1991 - WorldWideWeb, the world's first web browser, was introduced.
- 1993 - A bomb-laden van rented by Ramzi Yousef exploded in the underground garage of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six and injuring more than one thousand people.
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