Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is Tuesday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2002 with 308 to follow. The moon is waxing, moving toward its full phase. Advertisement The morning star is Mercury. The evening stars are Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Those born this day are under the sign of Pisces. They include French novelist and poet Victor Hugo in 1802; Levi Strauss, who created the world's first pair of jeans, in 1829; American frontiersman William "Buffalo Bill" Cody in 1846; surgeon and cornflakes developer John Kellogg in 1852; actors Jackie Gleason in 1916, Tony Randall in 1920 (age 82) and Betty Hutton in 1921 (age 81); R&B pianist Antoine "Fats" Domino in 1928 (age 74); and country singer Johnny Cash in 1932 (age 70). On this date in history: In 1531, an earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal, killed an estimated 20,000 people. In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte and 1,200 men left his exile on the Isle of Elba to start his 100-day campaign to re-gain France. In 1848, the "Communist Manifesto" was published, by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels. Advertisement In 1935, Germany began operation of its Air Force, the Luftwaffe, under Reichmarshall Hermann Goering. In 1987, the Tower Commission declared White House chief of staff Donald Regan had "primary responsibility for the chaos" of the Iran-Contra scandal. In 1991, U.S. Marines entered Kuwait City as Iraqi troops retreated. In 1992, a U.N. report accused Iraq of systematic human rights violations including "brutal torture" and "widespread arbitrary and summary executions" during its occupation of Kuwait. In 1993, a powerful bomb exploded in the parking garage below the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 more. In 1994, 11 members of the Branch Davidian religious cult were acquitted of murder and conspiracy charges stemming from the 1993 federal raid and siege at the compound near Waco, Texas. In 1995, China agreed to enforce copyright laws, thus avoiding threatened U.S tariffs on certain imports. In 1997, the Israeli cabinet approved development of a large Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem, a traditionally Arab area. The action drew criticism from the Palestinian National Authority. In 1998, a federal jury in Amarillo, Texas, ruled in favor of Oprah Winfrey in a lawsuit filed against her by Texas cattlemen. They said she had caused beef prices to fall with her 1996 talk show about "mad cow" disease. Advertisement A thought for the day: Victor Hugo wrote, "The learned man knows that he is ignorant."
