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February 26

4 sourced moments from February 26 in history: Napoleon Escapes from Elba (1815); The Grand Canyon becomes a national park (1919); Radar gets its first proof in a field near Daventry (1935), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on February 26

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1993 Society & Economy · Crime

A van bomb tears a crater under the World Trade Center

A 1,200-pound bomb in a rented van failed to topple the towers in 1993, but it killed six and previewed a darker decade.

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1935 Technology · Inventions

Radar gets its first proof in a field near Daventry

Three men in a van watched a bomber light up their oscilloscope, and the idea that would win the Battle of Britain was born.

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1919 Earth & Climate · Geology

The Grand Canyon becomes a national park

After decades of false starts, Congress finally walled off one of Earth's deepest gorges from the miners and speculators in 1919.

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1815 History · War & Conflict

Napoleon Escapes from Elba

One brig, a darkened harbour, and roughly a thousand men: how a deposed emperor slipped his island prison and reclaimed France.

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