What Day of the Week

February 26, 2019 was the 57^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 308 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.

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Here’s the February calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 364

  Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
• 1266

  Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
• 1909

  Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
• 1917

  The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
• 1946

  Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
• 1960

  A New York bound Alitalia airliner crashed into a cemetery at Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
• 1991

  Gulf War: United States Army forces capture the town of Al Busayyah.
• 1992

  Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
• 1993

  World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.
• 1995

  The United Kingdom’s oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.

• 1671

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713)
• 1746

  Archduchess Marie Amalie of Austria, duchess of Piacenza (d. 1806)
• 1866

  Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (d. 1930)
• 1879

  Frank Bridge, English composer (d. 1941)
• 1893

  I. A. Richards, English literary critic (d. 1979)
• 1901

  Dwight Wilson, Canadian Soldier (d. 2007)
• 1969

  Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer
• 1976

  Chad Urmston, American musician
• 1978

  Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye, Senegalese footballer
• 1986

  Teresa Palmer, Australian model and actress

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