On this day: February 26Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba (1815)
The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections (1990)
The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan (2001)
President B. Hussein Obama reveals his 2010 U.S. federal budget proposal adding more than $1,294,000,000,000.00 to the national debt (2009)
b: Victor Hugo (1802), Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov (1896), Robert Novak (1934); d: Theodor Eicke (1943), Trayvon Martin (2012)
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