2011 - Zhu Guangya, the founder of China's "two bombs and one star", dies
Zhu Guangya (December 25, 1924 – February 26, 2011), a native of Wuhan, Hubei Province, was a nuclear physicist, a member of the Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Medal of Merit for Two Bombs and One Star. In 1941, he was admitted to the Department of Physics of National Central University (Nanjing University), and in the summer of 1942, he was transferred to the Department of Physics of Southwest Union University, graduating in 1945. After receiving a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan, he returned to China in the spring of 1950. He joined the Communist Party of China in April 1956 and began his career in April 1950. Zhu Guangya is the founder of New China's nuclear cause, especially the "two bombs" cause, and one of the principal scientific and technological leaders, and an outstanding scientist in China's scientific and technological undertakings, especially the national defense science and technology front. He died in Beijing on February 26, 2011, at the age of 87.
1905 - Birthday of Yang Jingyu, leader of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army
Yang Jingyu (February 13, 1905 – February 23, 1940), Han ethnicity, formerly known as Ma Shangde, zi Jisheng, after arriving in the northeast, pseudonym Zhang Guanyi, Nai Chao, Yang Jingyu is his common pseudonym, Henan Province, Qishan people. He was a member of the Communist Party of China, a famous general in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China, and was the commander-in-chief of the First Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army and the acting secretary of the Military Commission of the Manchurian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.
1841 - Guan Tianpei, a famous anti-British general in the Opium War, dies
Guan Tianpei (8 January 1781 – 26 February 1841), courtesy name Zhongyin, was a native of Shanyang, Jiangsu (present-day Huai'an, Jiangsu), and a famous general of the Qing Dynasty during the Opium War. Born in the army, he was promoted to the rank of commander-in-chief of Su Wei Town, and the viceroy of Jiangnan. In 1834, he was appointed as the admiral of the Guangdong Water Division, and later actively assisted Lin Zexu in banning opium, training sailors, strengthening coastal defense, and repeatedly thwarting the provocations of the British invading army. In February 1841, when the British ships attacked Humen, he asked Qi Shan, the governor of Liangguang, for help, but he did not allow it, so he led his troops to guard the forts of Hengchang, Yong'an, and Jingyuan, and on the 25th, the British army landed from The Hengchang. The next day, he sacrificed himself heroically at Jingyuan Fort and guerrilla Mai Tingzhang and more than 400 other soldiers. He is the author of "The First Collection of Raising the Sea". In 1846, his son built the "Guan Zhongjie Ancestral Hall" on the east street of the county with the pension issued by the imperial court and the funds raised by guanmu.
1991 - The National Superconductivity Laboratory was officially completed
The State Key Laboratory of Superconductivity is an important base for superconductivity research in China and an important window for international and domestic superconductivity academic cooperation and exchanges. In 1988, the superconductivity laboratory began to be prepared, officially completed on February 26, 1991, passed the acceptance in April 1991, and officially opened to the public. In August 1995, he passed the first assessment and won the first place in category B. In May 2000, it passed the second evaluation and was rated as an excellent (Class A) State Key Laboratory. The current director of the laboratory is Researcher Zhou Xingjiang and Academician Zhao Zhongxian as the director of the academic committee. The laboratory undertakes a number of major research projects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Natural Science Foundation, and has developed into a laboratory with a certain scale and comprehensive strength and international influence.
1989 - China Antarctic Zhongshan Station was completed
Antarctic Zhongshan Station, established on January 26, 1989, also known as China Antarctic Zhongshan Station or Zhongshan Station, is one of the scientific research stations established by China in Antarctica. Antarctic Zhongshan Station, located in the Rasman Hills of the Southeast Antarctic Continent, is the second scientific research station established by China in Antarctica. After several expansions, the construction area reached 5800 square meters.
1991 – China decides to bid for the 2000 Olympic Games
At the plenary meeting of the Chinese Olympic Committee held on February 26, 1991, the Application for Hosting the 27th Olympic Games of 2000 submitted by the Beijing Municipal People's Government was unanimously adopted.
1992 - Jurist Zhang Youyu dies
Chinese journalist, journalist, jurist, expert on international issues. Pen names worry, worry, etc. Shanxi Lingshi people. Former chief writer of Current Affairs New Daily and Huashang Bao, former editorial committee member, acting editor-in-chief and president of Xinhua Daily, editor-in-chief of Life Bookstore.
1936 - German Volkswagen is introduced
Volkswagen (German: Volkswagen), the core of the Volkswagen Group. The Volkswagen Group is one of the world's top ten automobile companies, founded in 1938 in Volsburg, Germany, and the founder is the famous car design master Ferdinand. Porsche. The brand logo consists of V and W, Volks means national in German, Wagen means car in German, and the full name means the car of the nation, so it is referred to as "VW".
1802 - Birthday of The French writer Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a representative of The French Romantic writers, the leader of the active Romantic literary movement in the early 19th century, and the preeminent writer in the history of French literature. Hugo experienced almost all the major events of the 19th century in France. During his lifetime, he created many poems, novels, plays, various prose and literary criticisms and political essays, representing works such as "Notre Dame de Paris", "The Man with the Smiley Face", "Les Misérables" and so on. Hugo died of pneumonia at the age of 83. After his death, France mourned the nation, and more than two million people took part in his march from the Arc de Triomphe to the Pantheon funeral. He was buried in the "Panthéon" where the monuments of French celebrities gathered.
2001 - Shannon, the founder of American information theory, dies
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 26, 2001) was an American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as the founder of information theory. Shannon, 21, 1937, was a master's student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in his master's thesis he proposed that the application of Boolean algebra to the field of electronics, capable of constructing and resolving any logical and numerical relationship, was hailed as one of the most advanced master's theses ever. In 1948 Shannon published an epoch-making paper, the mathematical principles of communication, which laid the foundation for modern information theory. During World War II, Shannon contributed greatly to the military field of cryptanalysis—codebreaking and confidential communications. He died on 26 February 2001 at the age of 84.
1985 - Japan develops the world's first artificial middle ear
On February 26, 1985, the Faculty of Medicine of Ehime University in Japan developed the world's first artificial middle ear (buried ultra-small hearing aid) and successfully performed the operation of placing the artificial middle ear for a patient who could not hear sound in his right ear.
1995 - The British Bank of Bahrain collapses
Barings Bank, one of the oldest banks in The United Kingdom, opened in London in 1762 as Sir Francis Baring. The Bank of Bahrain, which became rich from its international trade financing, played an important role in the United Kingdom, and Queen Elizabeth II was one of its clients. Bank of Bahrain has never been listed on the London Stock Exchange, and ownership of its assets is entirely in the hands of senior management and charitable foundations. It closed on 26 February 1995.