Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 26
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 of Anjou near Benevento, Italy.
- 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte (pictured) escaped from Elba, an island off the coast of Italy whereto he was exiled after the signing of the Treaty of Fontainebleau one year earlier.
- 1935 – In Daventry, England, Scottish engineer and inventor Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated the use of radar.
- 1991 – Nexus, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor, was introduced by British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.
- 1993 – A bomb-laden van 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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