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This is a list of selected February 26 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Ineligible

Blurb Reason
1266Manfred, King of Sicily was killed while fighting Angevin forces led by Charles of Anjou near Benevento, Italy. refimprove, lead too short
1914HMHS Britannic, the third and largest Olympic-class ocean liner of the White Star Line after RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, was launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. refimprove
1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed a law that designated most of Arizona's Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River that is considered to be one of the major natural wonders of the world, as a national park. GC: refimprove sections; GCNP: refimprove
1946 – Finnish observers reported the first sightings of unidentified flying objects known as "ghost rockets", which have not yet been positively identified. refimprove, needs more footnotes
1966 – The Saturn IB rocket launched for the first time from Florida's Cape Canaveral. refimprove
1993 – A bomb-laden van exploded in the underground car park of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six and injuring more than one thousand people. refimprove sections

Eligible

February 26: Ayyám-i-Há begins (Bahá'í calendar); Liberation Day in Kuwait (1991); Saviours' Day (Nation of Islam)

Napoleon's Return from Elba, by Charles Auguste Guillaume Steuben

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