February 26

On This Day In History
	1815: Napoleon's escape from Elba Forced to abdicate as French emperor in 1814, Napoleon escaped from exile on the island of Elba this day in 1815 and, gathering support en route, retook power on his return to Paris on March 20, ushering in the Hundred Days.
Napoleon in His Study by Jacques-Louis David, 1812; in the National Gallery of Art
Biography Of The Day
	Johnny Cash Born this day in 1932, singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, known to his fans as the "Man in Black" and a member of the Country Music and Rock and Roll halls of fame, broadened the scope of American country and western music.
Johnny Cash
More Events On This Day In History
1993	1993 The World Trade Center in New York City was bombed in an act of terrorism, Islamic radicals being later convicted for the crime.
	1951 American novelist James Jones published From Here to Eternity, about the U.S. Army in Hawaii before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
	1919 The U.S. Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in northwestern Arizona.
1885	1885 The Berlin West Africa Conference concluded, the major European countries having staked claims to their colonial expansions in Central Africa.
	1802 Victor Hugo, a poet, novelist, and dramatist who was the most important of the French Romantic writers, was born.