Quick glance of 26 February in the pages of History

February 26: Here are the major events that occured on 26 February….

• 26 February, 319BC: Chandragupta I became the ruler of Pataliputra
• 26 February, 1616: Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
• 26 February, 1908: Leela Majumdar, Bengali author, was born.
• 26 February, 1910: Gandhi supports the African People’s Organizations resolution to declare the Prince of Wales day of arrival in South Africa a day of mourning.
• 26 February, 1930: West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England
• 26 February,1966: Vinayak Savarkar, popularly known as Swatantryaveer Savarkar, passed away.
• 26 February,1991: The world’s 1st web browser is presented to the public. The browser “WorldWideWeb” (later renamed “Nexus”) was developed by Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the internet.