Daily Calendar for Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Constance Ford (actress) – 1993
David Doyle (actor) – 1997
Bill Cardoso (writer who coined the term gonzo” to describe the unrestrained participatory journalism practiced by Hunter S. Thompson and others”) – 2006
Wendy Richard (actress) – 2009

President Lincoln signed the National Currency Act, establishing a national banking system and uniform currency– 1863
Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona was established– 1919
Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming is established– 1929
Groundbreaking ceremony for Golden Gate Bridge took place in San Francisco, California– 1933
Spelling Bee, the first quiz show, aired on television– 1940
NASA announced that Venus is about 800 degrees F– 1963
Buffalo Creek disaster: 50 foot wall of water smashed down a narrow valley when a dam broke in Logan County, West Virginia– 1972
Michael Jackson’s Thriller album hit number 1 on Billboard 200 chart and remained there for 37 weeks– 1983
Robert Penn Warren named U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry– 1986
A powerful bomb exploded in an underground parking lot of the World Trade Center in NYC, killing 6 people– 1993
Canada’s GEODESIC mission launched in to northern lights, Alaska– 2000
First sextuplets to be born in Ohio (Akron)– 2004
At age 82, Christopher Plummer became the oldest Oscar winner after receiving the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Beginners– 2012

An intense ocean storm blasted Cape Cod and Nantucket, with reported winds of 61 mph– 1952