Today in History - History - February 26th

1960Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia

201284th Academy Awards - "The Artist," Jean Dujardin & Meryl Streep win

1952PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb

1936Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"

1956Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open

1960Vera Miles stars in the famous "Mirror Image" episode of the classic CBS television series "The Twilight Zone"

1962Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY

1916Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract

1935NY Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves

1815Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France

1802Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables)

1932Johnny Cash, Kingsland Arkansas, American country singer (I Hear the Train Coming)

1934Theoretical physicist Edward Teller (25) weds Augusta Maria Harkanyi

1924Astronomer Edwin Hubble (34) weds Grace Burke in Pasadena, California

1928Actress Mary Astor (21) weds director Kenneth Hawks (30) at her family home in Moorcrest

2004Comedian Rosie O'Donnell (41) weds marketing executive Kelli O'Donnell (36) in San Francisco, California

1813Robert R. Livingston, US diplomat (Decl of Independence), dies at 66

1965Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies from gunshot wounds at 26