This Day in History

• Napoleon escapes from Elba (1815)
• The first color motion picture is shown at the Palace Theatre in London (1909)
• The Original Dixieland Band records the first jazz record (1917)
• Grand Canyon National Park (1919) and Grand Teton National Park (1929) are established
• Hitler orders the re-forming of the Luftwaffe in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles (1935)
• Young Japanese officers attempt a coup in the February 26 Incident (二・二六事件) (1936)
• The first Scandinavian “ghost rockets” are sighted (1946)
• Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations (1980)
• The World Trade Center truck bombing takes place, killing six and injuring over 1,000 (1993)
• Barings Bank, England’s oldest investment bank, collapses as a result of Nick Leeson’s trades (1995)

Birthdays

• Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (1564)
• Victor Hugo, miserable writer (1802)
• Honoré Daumier, illustrator and sculptor (1808)
• Levi Strauss, jean maker (1929)
• Buffalo Bill Cody, frontiersman (1846)
• John H. Kellogg, corn flakes co-inventor (1852)
• H. H. Dow, chemist (1866)
• Husband Kimmel, Pearl Harbor commander (1882)
• William Frawley, landlord (1887)
• Tex Avery, animator (1908)
• Jackie Gleason, great one (1916)
• Theodore Sturgeon, science fiction legend (1918)
• Tony Randall, odd coupler (1920)
• Fats Domino, thrill finder (1928)
• Johnny Cash, musician (1932)
• Sharyn McCrumb, mystery writer (1948) — her book Zombies of the Gene Pool is dedicated to me

Deaths

• Robert Livingston, Declaration signer (1813)
• Roy Eldridge, trumpet player (1989)
• David Doyle, Angel intermediary (1997)
• “Sybil,” more than once (1998)
• Trayvon Martin, hoodie wearer (2012)

Holidays

• Ayyám-i-Há (Bahá’í)
• Liberation Day (Kuwait)
• Savior’s Day (Nation of Islam)