Edited by Gerald Boerner
Introductory Comments:
This day, February 26th, saw many important events through recent history. In 1846, the frontiersman, buffalo hunter, and showman, William Cody, was born in Iowa. We earned is famous nickname, “Buffalo Bill,” by providing buffalo meat to the railroads. In later years, he would create his wild west show that took the adventure of the western frontier to arenas across the United States; these shows provided the easterners with an experience in roping, shooting (Annie Oakley), and cowboys and Indians in a safe environment.
Also on this day in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson learned of an encrypted telegram sent from Germany to the German Ambassador in Washington to be forwarded to the German ambassador in Mexico City. This telegram, the Zimmermann Telegram, sought Mexico’s help in breaking the Allied blockade of Germany in Europe by military action in North America. The British codebreakers in London broke the cypher and provided Wilson with the true contents of the telegram. This evidence in conjunction with the sinking of the Lusitania, lead to the entry of the United States into World War I.
In 1919, the Congress included the Grand Canyon into the National Parks system under the signature of President Woodrow Wilson. The Grand Canyon’s amazing natural wonders had already been protected by an executive order by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 as a National Monument. It became the 15th park included in the National Parks System and included the Grand Canyon, the Colorado gorge and the wild country around it. If it were not for these actions, we may not have this as one of Seven Natural Wonders of the World.
We also witnessed the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 by a terrorist car bomb in the parking garage. Radical Islamist were convicted of planning this bombing in 1994; all the men associated with this attack are serving life sentences in prison.
Also on this day in 1952 the Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that the British has successfully tested an atomic bomb. It became the third world power to acquire atomic weapons. This day also witnessed, in 1815, the escape of Napoleon from the island of Elba in the Mediterranean Sea; he returned to France where he led the French forces into the Battle of Waterloo, which he lost. 100 days after his escape, he was exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Well, this day, February 26th, has had quite a history. It is now time to proceed to examine some of the events that are associated with day in history... GLB
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Quotations Related to Theodore Roosevelt:
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“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
