• 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,having spent 300 days of exile on an island off the coast of Italy.