January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Day of death February 26, 1995
The temperature on February 26, 1995 was between -1.0 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
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February 21 » Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
June 8 » Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
July 6 » In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
September 6 » Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
September 22 » An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
November 12 » Erdut Agreement regarding the peaceful resolution to the Croatian War of Independence was reached.
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