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26 February
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1966 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, politician, activist and writer, died. He developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva while imprisoned at Ratnagiri in 1922.
- 2008 Sibnarayan Ray, thinker, educationist, philosopher and literary critic who wrote in the Bengali language, died at Shantiniketan.
- 2019 India launches air strikes on alleged terrorist camps within Pakistan.
- 2024 Pankaj Udhas, ghazal and playback singer, passed away.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1616 Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism, which states the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun.
- 1802 Victor Hugo, poet, novelist and dramatist who was the most important of the French Romantic writers, was born. Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame are two of his well-known books.
- 1815 Forced to abdicate as French emperor in 1814, Napoleon escaped from exile on the island of Elba and, gathering support en route, retook power on his return to Paris on March 20, 1815.
- 1935 RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt.
- 1991 The Kuwaiti capital is liberated by the Gulf War Allies after 208 days of Iraqi occupation.
- 2001 The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
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