What Day of the Week

February 26, 2021 was the 57^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 308 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kin'yōbi.

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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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• 1658

  Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
• 1876

  Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea’s status as a tributary state of Qing Dynasty China.
• 1920

  The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, premièred in Berlin.
• 1929

  President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
• 1935

  Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• 1966

  Vietnam War: The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
• 1980

  Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
• 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.
• 2004

  Republic of Macedonia President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• 1887

  William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
• 1903

  Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric (d. 1944)
• 1909

  Fanny Cradock, English food writer and broadcaster (d. 1994)
• 1938

  Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot guerilla (d. 1957)
• 1946

  Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1957

  David Muldrow Beasley, American politician and 113th Governor of South Carolina
• 1958

  Greg Germann, American actor
• 1958

  Michel Houellebecq, French novelist
• 1958

  Susan J. Helms, astronaut
• 1982

  Song Hye Kyo, South Korean model and actress

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