Today in History: Iraqi Army Withdrawn From Kuwait

February 26 is the 57nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 308.

Railways

• 26 February 1913 France, who was uncomfortable with the Ottoman State's railway on Syria and Palestinian territories, required the cease of railway construction in exchange for the debt they would give to Cavid Bey, who went to Paris for debt supply.

Events

• 364 – Valentinian I becomes Roman Emperor.
• 1618 – Ottoman Sultan, Mustafa I is deposed and replaced by II. Osman became Sultan.
• 1658 – The Treaty of Roskilde is signed between Denmark and Sweden.
• 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte fled Elba.
• 1848 - The Second Republic is proclaimed in France.
• 1870 - The first subway starts operating in New York.
• 1910 – The first leftist magazine, “Participation”, was published in Istanbul. The magazine was published by Hüseyin Hilmi.
• 1917 – Nick LaRocca's Original Dixiland Jazz Band recorded their first jazz record at the New York studios of Victor Talking Machine Company.
• 1925 – The law regarding the abolition of the Tobacco Regime (monopoly), which was under the rule of the French, as of March 1, 1925 was accepted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
• 1926 – Turkish Statistical Institute (Central Statistics Office at that time) was established.
• 1934 - Istanbul Municipality decided to remove the "cages" (bay windows) seen in some of the houses.
• 1936 – Fatih-Harbiye tram overturned in Beyoğlu; Two people were killed and 30 injured.
• 1943 – 160 people who did not pay the Wealth Tax in Istanbul were sent to Aşkale.
• 1952 - Winston Churchill declares that the United Kingdom has the atomic bomb.
• 1967 – The United States attacked the Vietcong with 25 soldiers.
• 1976 – The Defense Cooperation Agreement was signed between Turkey and the United States of America.
• 1981 – September 12 evaluation by Uğur Mumcu: “If a parliament is helpless against anarchy and terrorism, it means that it has 'liquidated' itself! This was the situation in our country before September 12. Therefore, in Turkey before September 12, it was not possible to talk about the constitutional order, fundamental rights and freedoms, and human rights.”
• 1985 – Tarık Akan won the Special Jury Award at the 35th Berlin Film Festival. The award was directed by Zeki Ökten. Wrestler Awarded for her role in the movie. However, Tarık Akan could not go to receive the award because he was not given a passport.
• 1991 – Saddam Hussein announced on the Baghdad radio that the Iraqi Army was withdrawing from Kuwait.
• 1992 – 200 prisoners who dug a 11 meter long tunnel escaped from Kayseri Prison.
• 1992 – Khojaly Massacre: Armed Armenian groups entered Khojaly city of Azerbaijan and killed 613 Azeris.
• 1993 – Six people were killed and more than a thousand were injured in an explosion in a truck in the parking lot under the World Trade Center in New York.
• 1998 – Speech was translated into Greek.
• 1999 – The first municipal elections were held in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Moderate candidates supporting President Mohammad Khatami won 15 of the 13 seats in the Tehran City Council.
• 2001 – Members of the Taliban organization destroyed Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
• 2004 – The United States ends its 23-year travel ban to Libya.
• 2004 – Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski and 8 people with him died when the plane crashed near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Trajkovski was succeeded by Branko Srvenkovski on 12 May.
• 2007 – Diyarbakir 5th High Criminal Court sentenced 1990 of 1994 defendants to aggravated life imprisonment for 13 years, on the grounds that they carried out acts of killing and injuring many people in 34-20 on behalf of Hezbollah.
• 2011 – Nintendo released its new game console, the Nintendo 3DS, in Japan.

Births

• 1416 – Christopher of Bavaria was King of Denmark (1440–48, as Christopher III), Sweden (1441–48), and Norway (1442–48) (d. 1448)
• 1564 – Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright (d. 1593)
• 1671 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, English philosopher (d. 1713)
• 1715 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (d. 1771)
• 1725 – Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, French inventor and scientist (d. 1804)
• 1754 – Ferdinando Marescalchi, Italian diplomat and politician (d. 1816)
• 1786 – François Jean Dominique Arago, French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, mason, and politician (d. 1853)
• 1794 – Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1874)
• 1799 – Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864)
• 1802 – Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
• 1805 – Melek Cihan Hanım, wife of the Shah of Iran Mohammed Shah (d. 1873)
• 1807 – Théophile-Jules Pelouze, French chemist (d. 1867)
• 1808 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, sculptor, and cartoonist (d. 1879)
• 1821 – Félix Ziem, French painter, traveler (d. 1911)
• 1825 – James Skivring Smith, Liberian physician and politician (d. 1892)
• 1825 – Ludwig Rütimeyer, Swiss physician, anatomist, geologist, and paleontologist (d. 1895)
• 1829 – Levi Strauss, German textile designer (d. 1902)
• 1846 – “Buffalo Bill” (William Frederick Cody), American soldier, bison hunter, and entertainer (d. 1917)
• 1849 – Leonid Pozen, Russian-Ukrainian sculptor and lawyer (d. 1921)
• 1849 Geneviève Halévy, French salonnière (d. 1928)
• 1858 – William Joseph Hammer, American electrical engineer (d. 1934)
• 1860 – Stilian Kovachev, Bulgarian soldier (d. 1939)
• 1861 – Ferdinand I, first Tsar of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
• 1869 – Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary and wife of Lenin (d. 1939)
• 1870 Thomas Byles, English Catholic priest (d. 1912)
• 1876 ​​– Agustín Pedro Justo, President of Argentina (d. 1943)
• 1880 – Lionel Logue, Australian speech and language therapist and amateur stage actor (d. 1953)
• 1882 Husband Kimmel, American commander (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Umberto Cisotti, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1946)
• 1885 – Alexandras Stulginskis, second President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
• 1886 – Mihri Müşfik Hanım, Turkish painter (d. 1954)
• 1887 – Akaki Shanidze, Georgian linguist and philologist (d. 1987)
• 1893 – IA Richards, English literary critic and rhetorician (d. 1979)
• 1894 – Wilhelm Bittrich, German SS Obergruppenführer and Waffen-SS general (d. 1979)
• 1896 – Andrey Zhdanov, Soviet politician (d. 1948)
• 1896 – Evans Carlson, American Corps commander (d. 1947)
• 1903 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (d. 1979)
• 1908 – Tex Avery, American filmmaker, animator, and actor (d. 1980)
• 1909 Talal, King of Jordan (d. 1972)
• 1916 – Jackie Gleason, American actress (d. 1987)
• 1920 – Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos, Brazilian writer (d. 1984)
• 1920 – Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Paatje Phefferkorn, Dutch educator and applied mixed martial artist (d. 2021)
• 1928 – Ariel Sharon, Israeli politician (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Johnny Cash, American musician (d. 2003)
• 1933 – Salvador Martínez Pérez, Mexican Catholic Bishop (d. 2019)
• 1942 – Jozef Adamec, Slovak former football player, manager (d. 2018)
• 1946 – Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (d. 2016)
• 1950 – Ali Riza Binboğa, Turkish pop singer
• 1951 – Ferhan Şensoy, Turkish cinema and theater actor (d. 2021)
• 1953 – Michael Bolton, American singer
• 1954 – Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish politician
• 1955 – Suna Yıldızoğlu, English-Turkish actress
• 1958 – Michel Houellebecq, French writer
• 1958 – Tim Kaine, American lawyer
• 1959 – Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkish academic and politician
• 1960 – Jaz Coleman, English musician, singer, composer and producer
• 1964 – Mark Dacascos, American actor
• 1966 – Necva Kerem, Lebanese singer
• 1967 - Kazuyoshi Miura, he is a japanese football player
• 1970 – Mehmet Ali Ilıcak, Turkish journalist and media mogul
• 1971 – Erykah Badu, Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, producer, activist, and actress
• 1971 – Max Martin, Swedish music producer and songwriter
• 1971 – Helene Segara, French singer and songwriter
• 1973 – Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian football player and manager
• 1974 – Sebastien Loeb, french rally driver
• 1975 – Öykü Serter, Turkish television presenter and actress
• 1978 – Abdoulaye Faye is a Senegalese national football player.
• 1979 – Pedro Mendes is a Portuguese football player.
• 1982 – Na Li, Chinese professional tennis player
• 1982 – Nate Ruess, American singer-songwriter
• 1983 – Pepe is a Portuguese football player of Brazilian descent.
• 1984 - Natalia Lafourcade is a Mexican pop singer, songwriter and musician.
• 1984 – Beren Saat, Turkish actress
• 1984 – Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese football player
• 1985 – Fernando Llorente, Spanish football player
• 1986 Teresa Palmer, Australian actress
• 1988 – Deniz Yılmaz, Turkish football player
• 1991 – CL is a South Korean rapper, singer and songwriter.
• 1992 – Demet Özdemir, Turkish actress
• 1993 – Maria Ehrich, German actress
• 1998 – Ege Tanman, Turkish actress

Deaths

• 420 – Porphyrius, bishop of Gaza (b. 347)
• 1154 – II. Rugerro, King of Sicily (b. 1095)
• 1577 – XIV. Eric, king of Sweden (b. 1533)
• 1603 – Maria, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1528)
• 1770 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist (b. 1692)
• 1811 – James Sharples, English portrait painter (b. 1751-1752)
• 1828 – Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, German painter (b. 1751)
• 1878 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1818)
• 1907 – Charles William Alcock, English athlete, journalist, author, and sports administrator (b. 1842)
• 1909 – Hermann Ebbinghaus, German psychologist (known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the gap effect) (b. 1850)
• 1921 – Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)
• 1929 – Giriftzen Asım Bey, Turkish ney player, grifitzen and composer (b. 1851)
• 1930 – Ahmet Rıza Bey, Turkish politician and one of the leaders of the Young Turk movement (b. 1858)
• 1930 – ‎Mary Whiton Calkins‎‎, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
• 1931 – Otto Wallach, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
• 1939 – Vlas Chubar, Bolshevik revolutionary (b. 1891)
• 1943 – Theodor Eicke, German Nazi officer (b. 1892)
• 1952 – Theodoros Pangalos, Greek soldier and politician (b. 1878)
• 1952 – Josef Thorak, German sculptor (b. 1889)
• 1961 – Hasan Âli Yücel, Turkish teacher, politician and former Minister of National Education (b. 1897)
• 1969 – Karl Jaspers, German writer (b. 1883)
• 1969 – Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
• 1971 – Fernandel, French actor (b. 1903)
• 1984 – Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil, Turkish poet (b. 1927)
• 1985 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1988 – Akşit Göktürk, Turkish critic, writer and linguist (b. 1934)
• 1991 – Slim Gaillard, American jazz singer, pianist, and guitarist (b. 1916)
• 1994 – Bill Hicks, American Stand-Up comedian (b. 1961)
• 1994 – Tarık Buğra, Turkish writer and journalist (b. 1918)
• 1998 – Theodore Schultz, American economist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 2002 – Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2004 – Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian politician (b. 1956)
• 2009 – Wendy Richard, English actress (b. 1943)
• 2011 – Arnošt Lustig, Czech writer (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Stéphane Hessel, French diplomat, resistance fighter, writer (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Mehmet Gün, Turkish painter (b. 1954)
• 2015 – Nadia Hilou, Israeli politician and sociologist (b. 1953)
• 2015 – Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi writer (b. 1972)
• 2016 – Andy Bathgate, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1932)
• 2016 – Karl Dedecius, Polish-German translator and writer (b. 1921)
• 2016 – Eri Klas, Estonian conductor and broadcaster (b. 1939)
• 2017 – Katalin Berek, Hungarian actress (b. 1930)
• 2017 – Eugene Garfield, American linguist and businessman (b. 1925)
• 2017 – Preben Hertoft, Danish psychiatrist and professor (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Mies Bouwman, Dutch television presenter (b. 1929)
• 2018 – Tatyana Karpova, Soviet-Russian actress (b. 1916)
• 2018 – Benjamin Melniker, American filmmaker (b. 1913)
• 2019 – Aytaç Arman, Turkish cinema and TV series actor (b. 1949)
• 2019 – Christian Bach, Argentine-Mexican actor and filmmaker (b. 1959)
• 2019 – Mitzi Hoag, American actress (b. 1932)
• 2019 – Jeraldine Saunders, American television columnist, model, lecturer (b. 1923)
• 2020 – Sergey Dorensky, Soviet-Russian pianist and educator (b. 1931)
• 2020 – Iskender Hamidov, former Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Lieutenant General (b. 1948)
• 2020 – Necmiye Hoca, Albanian communist activist (b. 1921)
• 2021 – Tariq al-Bisri, Egyptian judge and writer (b. 1933)
• 2021 – Michael Somare, Papua New Guinean politician (b. 1936)
• 2021 – Desmond McAleenan, Irish-American former professional football player and goalkeeping coach (b. 1967)