26/02/1965- South Korea sends its first troops to Saigon as part of US President Lyndon Johnson's effort to build an international coalition of fighting forces in Vietnam. 26/02/1993- The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. 26/02/1815- Napoleon Bonaparte escapes,h aving spent 300 days of exile on an island off the coast of Italy.