Woodrow Wilson creating Acadia National Park is probably one of the best thing done during his administration. Man the more I learn about that guy the less I like him.

I have to say your passion for history is truly unparalleled, when you post you bring it! And not just a fraction you bring all of it and for that I will always be in your debt and always be a subscriber! Thank you Lance for just being you!!!

Thank you so much today is my mom's 86th birthday 🎂 I will send this to her she will appreciate this thank you😊

Good morning, fellow students. Greetings from Connecticut!

Just love these "this day in history" episodes. If there happens to be a segment that I'm not particularly interested in (a rare event to be sure) then there is something else just a few moments ahead that really grabs my interest. One of my friends who was a tank commander in the Gulf War died recently. This episode made me think of him. Thanks THG.

Thanks for making my 71st Birthday, memorable.

That finish sounded like a wooden bat cracking out a homerun! I don't leave many comments but just wanted to say, "Thank you, Lance."

During Galileo's house arrest, he was allowed to continue his work with the relationships of motion ... this is generally considered to be the "shoulders of giants" that Issac Newton claimed to have stood upon ...

I remember that cold, snowy day the van blew up in the parking garage. I'm still shaking my head.

"The 15th Amendment, reading 'The right to Citizens of the United States to Vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by Any State on account of Race, Color, or previous condition of Servitude ' was passed by Congress by only Republican votes, with NO Democrats voting in favor, on February 26, 1869. It was ratified by the States and became Law on March 30th, 1870" Someone should tell Al Sharpton.

Aha but no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

I really enjoyed this episode. I still remember that snowy afternoon in 1993 when I was working at 7 World Trade Center when we felt the shockwave from the bomb. They told us to stay in the building. However, we knew better and climbed the 31 flights down to the street level. It was a Friday and they would not let us back in the building. I honestly think that may have been the only weekend that I didn’t have to work while employed at that particular company.

These are fast becoming my favorite THG episodes!

hard to believe how much research you put into each and every episode.

The most consistent bit of history efforting greatly appreciated ....huge resource

Greeting from the Golden State! California says Hello!

Thank you for the lesson.

What an excellent episode!

The frame of reference for all of history is a lunar eclipse? Could be worse! Thanks for another great episode❤

Love this 💙💙💙and you too 💙💗💗been a fan for years and I’m soo happy to see you keep going 💗💙The world is a little brighter with your sweet face and beautiful smile 😀 God Bless 😇😇

Lol, l have never, to this date, experienced a less than excellent episode from the History Guy.

What a great episode, coincides with the date of my birth in 1955. Keep up the great job you're doing Sir.

February 26th it's my birthday today, I always seen a significance in this day looking back at history I didn't realize just how much though! Great video,sir!

Aw man Lance, I had forgotten about RADAR. Thank you sir! Teared up when I saw they played "Colors" for the Golden Gate bridge.

So much history. It seems silly not learn from all of it.

I kind of want a "This Day In History" for February 29th. It would be interesting to know what happened on this extra day.

My wife was born of February 26th and she absolutely loved this....

Thank THG🎀 for all of his excellent research that goes into making history video's so we can watch 👍 Shoe🇺🇸

As a keen historian, especially of military history, the one phrase that really sets me off is when a 'historian' says in a TV documentary that this event 'changed history' or altered the course of events. Cannot change anything that hasn't happened, let alone anything that happened in the past yet people still insist on stating it as a fact. The way things happen is just that - they happen. Yes, peoples personalities', their surroundings, the context of their time will influence how things go, or not, but no one event or person can ever be claimed to have 'changed' history. Love this little series THG.

"So... much... history." Best... closing... ever. :)

I remember 73 Eastings as my unit was just West of that engagement, but hardly anyone talks about our battles.

A very wise man, this one.

2770 years ago, there was no year zero.

THG, you rock! Peace

Of course, you know. You never fail. Thanks again

I'm glad you did one of these on my birthday. I just wish you would have mentioned it too!

Really nice video! Thank you HG.

The Calendar Wars: tough times... tough times

Galileo's skeletal, raised middle finger is on display at the DaVinci museum in Florence, Italy ---- I like to think that he is "flipping the bird" at the church!

I knew my birthday had significance besides my birth! It's always been a strange day.

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

Loved the Episode, and loved the Starship Enterprise and the Robin Hood mug from the B-17 Bomb Group,!

Thank you for this material. 👍

I was not aware that bombers before B52s were also called superfortress.

Yes greetings from Connecticut from me also Groton to be exact

04:59 "Robert Watson-Wyatt" - I think you are referring to Robert Watson Watt, not Wyatt, or to be more precise, latterly Sir Robert Alexander Watson Watt who was the Scottish pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology. A fascinating character, well worth a quick read of his Wikipedea entry, or perhaps an entire episode of the History Guy.

Thanks!

26 Feb 1991, was @ KKMC in the Saudi Arabian desert dodging SCUD missiles, 26 Feb 1993, watched a little on tv abt the WTC bombing before going to a Gymnastics meet. What’s not often mentioned on the Lucky Lady 2 flight is a KB-29 Refueling aircraft returning to Clark AFB crashed. It was reported as a ‘Training’ accident to cover up why it crashed.

First National Park east of Mississippi River was: (from Wikipedia _ Mackinac National Park was a United States national park that existed from 1875 to 1895 on Mackinac Island in northern Michigan, making it the second U.S. national park after Yellowstone National Park. The 1,044-acre (422 ha) park was created in response to the growing popularity of the island as a summer resort. Its creation was largely the result of efforts by United States Senator Thomas W. Ferry, a native of the island. Senate Bill 28 "to set aside a certain portion of the island of Mackinaw and the straits of Mackinaw, within the State of Michigan as a national park" was introduced December 2, 1874, and signed by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 3, 1875.[1][2] The national park covered 821 acres while the fort retained 103 acres and the remainder of the island was privately owned.[3] The park grounds abutted Fort Mackinac, which continued to serve as a United States Army garrison during the operation of the park, as well as island geological features such as Arch Rock and Sugar Loaf. The fort's commander ran the park and federal troops served as park rangers, as at Yellowstone. The park had the authority to construct roads and trails and to lease small numbers of lots for buildings to offset its expenses, as no federal money was provided to run the park. The park lands also had to be available to the army for military training and in time of war.[3] In 1895, the fort was decommissioned and, at the request of Michigan Governor John T. Rich, the park and fort was turned over to the State of Michigan, becoming Mackinac Island State Park, the first state park in Michigan.[4] The park was established on the condition that it remain a state park or it would revert to the United States. This restriction caused a problem in the 1960s when the city proposed to lease land from the park for an expanded airport for the island. The lease to the city was ruled a non-park use but the park, on its own, expanded and continues to run the airport.[5]

Thank you, kind sir.

Always enjoy your videos, thanks again for all your hard work. 😊

Glad I caught this show before 💤 tho this was my yesterday lol so theoretically I missed this day 😞 good show tho 👍

I love this new series so far! Keep it up

Another essential subject that might interest you is the history of the number "0". In short, it was brought to Europe from Arabic countries in the 8th century, which had gotten it from India, but was not fully accepted until the 15th. There are many twists and turnabouts in that history.

Two legendary fat entertainers were born on February 26: Jackie Gleason in 1916 and Fats Domino in 1928.

My father was born on February 26, 1930.

Well done 🤠👍

love your videos

Your account of the battle of the 73-Eastingis flawed, there were 11 Troops, not 4. We were all online in North to South axis heading East when we got to the 73-Easting. In all, 2nd ACR was responsible for destroying 160 tanks, 180 armored personnel carriers, 12 artillery pieces and 80 wheeled vehicles. 2nd ACR was the only ground unit to be out-manned and out-gunned in a head to head battle but the 3 squadrons of 2nd ACR destroyed 2 full Armor Brigades of the Tawakaina Division (18th-Mech Brigade and 37th-Armour Brigade). I was in this battle with 1st Squadron, Charlie Troop on the Southern flank driving East. Toujours Pret !!!

Pity 747BC isn’t a leap year counting backwards. I was hoping for a leap day, just three days into recorded history, but alas no.

Cool. Time began on my birthday. I keep telling everyone this...

Have you ever thought about doing a video on The History of The Farmers Almanac. Have a good day. PS. Have you seen and tried the History Channel Trivia Game .

2:50 just WOW! How cool is that?! This is the first time I’ve heard about the “other side” not keeping their agreement with napoleon. I (almost wrote thought) was educated to believe that he was imprisoned on that island. Nobody ever said, “Oh, by the way, he was supposed to be king/governor/ruler of this island and were are going to give him money to run his island.” Dang, gonna have to look this up… 11:22 probably the last tank battle in history. With drone technology showing its immense value in Ukraine, I hope we are seeing a change in warfare.

Love your videos brother

Always great to

Please read Days of Fury by Mike Guardia. An excellent book about my unit Ghost Troop and the Battle of 73 Easting. A watershed moment in military history

I vote for a This Day in History February 29th. 🙂

Good morning

i all ways look forward to your segment s coming up on you tub i understand that you don't live to far from me in st Louis this episode was particular interesting not that any of your is boring its not this one was amazing keep it up love your channel

I have a request. Do you think you could do a video on "La Violencia" in Colombia from 1948-1958? It's not really well covered on English speaking platforms.

For clarification, what are you referring to on Feb 26, 1864? The amendments are passed a little later as you said so wasn't sure what you were referring to.

LeapDay is two days away, THG; got any good historical events that took place on LeapDay? (My dad was born on Leap Day and we used to tease him about being the world's oldest teenager). BTW, Greeks and Russians use the Gregorian calendar to calculate Easter, and the observation/celebration of Orthodox Easter can deviate by several weeks from Catholic/Christian Easter.

"Able was I ere I saw Elba."

M2A2s not M3A2s. We threw out the seats for more ammunition…

Some 30 years ago there were a few people asking to change the name of the Grand Tetons because it means, of course, big teats. Nothing became of it....

Denying people the option of racial segregation violates freedom of association.

Other than the 26th being my birthday I assumed that it was pretty uneventful

but what day did Claudius Ptolemy declare it ?!?

The 1993 attempt changed nothing in the U.S. Probably because "only" six people died. I recognized the gravity of the intention to bring down the World Trade Center. A few months after that happened I was at Union Station in Chicago and I observed a package that was unattended. After about 30 minutes I went and found Amtrak police. I went in there and told them about the unattended package and they said, "What about it?" Apparently they didn't get the memo. My point is, nothing in our behavior changed after that 93 attempt. Even in 2000 after the Bush Administration took control they didn't take it seriously enough.

The soldiers in the unit call themselves 'the second ACR', not 'two ACR', so you should too.

His blue bow tie was upside down .

March 26 is my deceased mother's birthday.

What about the Asian calendars? Are they reliable? Buddhist. Chinese.

apparently mistakes were made in 1865 and 1870... look at crime stats

Union victory in 1864?? 1865 maybe

Hey HG, you’re looking a little peaked towards the end. I truly hope you’re concerned about the current state of the world and it’s not a health thing. We need you out here teaching us history, but you gotta make sure you take care of yourself. If you need a break, take it. We get it.

Happy birthday buffalo Bill! February 26, 1846. Cheers 🥂🍻🥃🎩🤠

You missed one event in 1947. Not sure if it was a positive or negative event. Me.

50th, 26 February 2024

Pronounced SECOND ACR.

Very Interesting? 😊

the attempted coup or up-spring, depends on the view of it, on Feb 26 1936 in Tokyo, Japan: 昭和维新，尊皇讨奸

2/26/1869 the beginning of the downfall of the USA!

I love the "history guy" but every once in a while he depends upon sources who get things wrong. For example, the Catholic church got their view of geocentric view of the universe from Aristotle... and backed their view up from creative views of Scripture. Revisionist science historians, beginning largely with Voltaire, blame the Bible for the error that the sun orbited the earth. However, Aristotelian thought ruled the scientific world, what there was of it, for about 2,000 years. Through defective experiment, Aristotle determined that the earth was at rest, and therefore, the sun must orbit the earth and not vice-versa. Church leaders sadly, along with virtually all the western world, submitted to Aristotle on this and many other false, non-biblical ideas. By contrast Galileo was a staunch adversary of Aristotle's views. Galileo Galilei, often opposed to Aristotle, staunchly defended the Bible. On December 21, 1613 he sent a letter to Benedetto Gastelli (a Benedictine monk and a pioneer in hydrostatics). “The holy scriptures cannot err,” Galileo wrote, “and the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable… Holy scripture and nature are both emanations from the divine word; the former dictated by the Holy spirit, the latter the executrix of God’s commands… I believe that the intention of holy writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary for salvation, such as neither science nor any other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.” {Translated by Mary Allan Olney, The Private Life of Galileo (London, England, 1870), p. 73 quoted by James Brodrick, S.J., Galileo, the Man, His Work, His Misfortunes (New York City, New York: Harper & Row, 1964), pp. 76-77}

That's NOT what the Scripture says! The Earth being fixed doesn't mean it doesn't move, but that its place is set for what it's doing in its revolution around the sun. They also state the Earth is round and the rising and setting are simply from appearance, but not the sun moving. Also the Stars in their courses is true because everything is moving.

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