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'''Willowridge High School''' is a secondary school in [[Houston, Texas]] and part of the [[Fort Bend Independent School District]]. Willowridge serves grades 9 through 12. The school has a predominant [[African-American]] student population.
'''February 26''' is the 57th day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 308 days remaining, 309 in [[leap year]]s.
The school opened in 1979 as the second high school in the FBISD; during the 1980s, it was known for its high school football players. Three players - [[Thurman Thomas]], [[O.J. Brigance]], and [[Allen Aldridge]] - later went professional in the [[National Football League]].
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==Events==
Actor [[Isaiah Washington]] ''([[Romeo Must Die]]'', ''[[Wild Things 2]]'') was one of the first WHS graduates back in 1981 - this was when their first seniors graduated.
*[[740s BC|747 BC]] - [[Epoch]] (origin) of [[Ptolemy]]'s Nabonassar Era.
* [[364]] - [[Valentinian I]] is proclaimed [[Roman Emperor]].
*[[1266]] - [[Battle of Benevento]]: An army led by [[Charles I of Sicily|Charles]], Count of [[Anjou]], defeats a combined [[Germany|German]] and [[Sicily|Sicilian]] force led by King [[Manfred of Sicily]]. Manfred is killed in the battle and [[Pope Clement IV]] invests Charles as king of [[Sicily]] and [[Naples]].
*[[1794]] - [[Christiansborg Castle]], [[Copenhagen]] burns down.
*[[1797]] - The [[Bank of England]] issues the first one-pound note.
*[[1815]] - [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]] escapes from [[Elba]].
*[[1848]] - The second [[French Republic]] is proclaimed.
*[[1863]] - U.S. President [[Abraham Lincoln]] signs the [[National Currency Act]] into law.
*[[1870]] - In [[New York City]], the first [[pneumatics|pneumatic]]-[[metro|subway]] opens.
*[[1887]] - At the [[Sydney Cricket Ground|SCG]], [[George Lohmann]] becomes the first [[bowler (cricket)|bowler]] to take eight wickets in a [[Test cricket|Test]] innings.
*[[1919]] - An act of the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] establishes most of the [[Grand Canyon]] as a [[United States National Park]] (see [[Grand Canyon National Park]]).
*[[1929]] - The [[Grand Teton National Park]] is created.
*[[1935]] - The [[Luftwaffe]] is reformed.
*[[1935]] - [[Robert Watson-Watt]] carried out a demonstration which led directly to the development of [[radar|RADAR]] in Britain.
*[[1936]] - In the [[February 26 Incident]], young [[Japan]]ese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
*[[1944]] - Shooting begins of the [[Nazi]] propaganda film, "The Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in [[Concentration camp Theresienstadt|Theresienstadt]].
*[[1952]] - [[United Kingdom]] Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]] announces that his nation has an [[atomic bomb]].
*[[1966]] - [[Apollo Program]]: Launch of [[AS-201]], the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
*[[1970]] - [[National Public Radio]] incorporates as a [[non-profit organization|non-profit corporation]].
*[[1971]] - Secretary-General U Thant signs [[United Nations]] proclamation of the vernal equinox as [[Earth Day]].
*[[1972]] - [[Buffalo Creek Flood]] caused by a burst dam kills 125 in [[West Virginia]].
*[[1986]] - [[Robert Penn Warren]] is named ''poet laureate'' of the United States.
*[[1987]] - [[Iran-Contra affair]]: The [[Tower Commission]] rebukes American President [[Ronald Reagan]] for not controlling his national security staff.
*[[1990]] - The [[Sandinista]]s are defeated in [[Nicaragua]]n elections.
*[[1991]] - [[Tim Berners-Lee]] introduces [[WorldWideWeb]], the first [[web browser]].
*[[1991]] - [[Gulf War]]: On [[Baghdad]] Radio [[Iraq]]i leader [[Saddam Hussein]] announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from [[Kuwait]].
*[[1992]] - [[Xocali slaughter]]. More than 600 people of the town of [[Xocali]], [[Azerbaijan]], are killed by Armenian forces during war in [[Karabakh]].
*[[1993]] - [[World Trade Center bombing]]: In [[New York City]], a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the [[World Trade Center]] goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand. The buildings would be destroyed in a subsequent attack on [[September 11, 2001]].
*[[1995]] - The [[United Kingdom]]'s oldest investment banking firm, [[Barings Bank]] collapses after a securities broker, [[Nick Leeson]], loses $1.4 billion by gambling on the Singapore Monetary Exchange [[Simex]] with [[derivative (finance)|derivatives]].
=== 21th century ===
*[[2001]] - The [[Taliban]] destroy two giant [[Buddhas of Bamiyan|Buddha statues]] in [[Bamiyan]], [[Afghanistan]].
*[[2004]] - The [[United States]] lifts a ban on travel to [[Libya]], ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.
*[[2004]] - [[Republic of Macedonia|Macedonian]] President [[Boris Trajkovski]] is killed in a plane crash near [[Mostar]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]].
*[[2005]] - [[Hosni Mubarak]] the president of [[Egypt]] orders the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 2005 by asking Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76 of the constitution.
One of the streets on the WHS campus was named in memory of former principal Edgar Glover, Jr. Glover served as principal between November 1982 until his death in April 1993.
==Births==
*[[1361]] - [[Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor]], King of Bohemia (d. [[1419]])
*[[1564]] - [[Christopher Marlowe]], English dramatist (d. [[1593]])
*[[1587]] - [[Stefano Landi]], Italian composer (d. [[1639]])
*[[1671]] - [[Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury]], English politician and philosopher (d. [[1713]])
*[[1672]] - [[Antoine Augustine Calmet]], French theologian (d. [[1757]])
*[[1715]] - [[Claude Adrien Helvétius]], French philosopher (d. [[1771]])
*[[1786]] - [[François Arago]], French mathematician
*[[1802]] - [[Victor Hugo]], French writer (d. [[1885]])
*[[1808]] - [[Honoré Daumier]], French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. [[1879]])
*[[1829]] - [[Levi Strauss]], German-born clothing designer (d. [[1902]])
*[[1846]] - [[Buffalo Bill]], American pioneer, officer, and hunter (d. [[1917]])
*[[1857]] - [[Émile Coué]], French psychologist (d. [[1926]])
*[[1861]] - King [[Ferdinand of Bulgaria]] (d. [[1948]])
*[[1879]] - [[Frank Bridge]], English composer (d. [[1941]])
*[[1885]] - [[Aleksandras Stulginskis]], [[President of Lithuania]] (d. [[1969]])
*[[1887]] - [[Grover Cleveland Alexander]], baseball player (d. [[1950]])
*1887 - [[William Frawley]], American actor (d. [[1966]])
*[[1893]] - [[I. A. Richards]], English literary critic (d. [[1979]])
*[[1902]] - [[Albert Anastasia]], Italian-born gangster (d. [[1957]])
*[[1907]] - [[Dub Taylor]], American actor (d. [[1994]])
*[[1908]] - [[Tex Avery]], American cartoonist (d. [[1980]])
*1908 - [[Jean-Pierre Wimille]], French race car driver (d. [[1949]])
*[[1909]] - King [[Talal of Jordan]] (d. [[1972]])
*[[1914]] - [[Robert Alda]], American actor (d. [[1986]])
*[[1916]] - [[Jackie Gleason]], American actor, writer, composer, and comedian (d. [[1987]])
*[[1918]] - [[Theodore Sturgeon]], American writer (d. [[1985]])
*[[1919]] - [[Mason Adams]], American actor
*[[1919]] - [[Rie Mastenbroek]], Dutch swimmer (d. [[2003]])
*[[1920]] - [[Tony Randall]], American actor (d. [[2004]])
*[[1921]] - [[Betty Hutton]], American actress
*[[1927]] - [[Tom Kennedy]], American game show host
*[[1928]] - [[Fats Domino]], American musician
* 1928 - [[Anatoli Filipchenko]], cosmonaut
*[[1932]] - [[Johnny Cash]], American singer (d. [[2003]])
*[[1934]] - [[Robert Novak]], American political columnist
*[[1941]] - [[Tony Ray-Jones]], British photographer (d. [[1972]])
*[[1943]] - [[Bill Duke]], American actor and director
*[[1945]] - [[Marta Kristen]], Norwegian actress
*[[1946]] - [[Ahmed H. Zewail]], Egyptian chemist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[1947]] - [[Sandie Shaw]], British singer
*[[1950]] - [[Helen Clark]], [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]]
*[[1951]] - [[Lee Atwater]], American political operative (d. [[1991]])
*[[1954]] - [[Recep Tayyip Erdogan]], [[Prime Minister of Turkey]]
*[[1954]] - [[Michael Bolton]], American singer
*[[1956]] - [[Keisuke Kuwata]], Japanese singer
*[[1956]] - [[Michel Houellebecq]], French novelist
*[[1959]] - [[Rolando Blackman]], Panamanian basketball player
*[[1962]] - [[Greg Germann]], American actor
*[[1971]] - [[Erykah Badu]], American singer
*[[1973]] - [[Marshall Faulk]], American football star
* 1973 - [[Jenny Thompson]], American swimmer
*[[1974]] - [[Sébastien Loeb]], French race car driver
*[[1984]] - [[Natalia Lafourcade]], Mexican singer
This school is also known for its internationally famous marching band, known as the "Mighty Eagle Marching Band." Under the band directors Mr. Ronald Thornton(head), Delcenia Hill, and Robert Jackson, this band has had many accomplishments, including performing at the [[Rose Bowl]] and [[Orange Bowl]] back in the 1990s. The band also recently returned from a trip to Hawaii."The white sand, blue water, and breathtaking scenery of Hawaii will forever be engraved in our minds...", said Thornton in a letter to his band pupils. This band also had the pleasure of hosting the Bands of America(www.bands.org) contest at Rice Stadium on October 1, 2005. Even though a few of the Willowridge band students referred to the affair as "just as boring as the Street Olympics", most of them enjoyed watching other bands perform and and also mingling and getting to know other band participants.
== Deaths ==
*[[1266]] - King [[Manfred of Sicily]]
*[[1561]] - [[Jorge de Montemayor]], Spanish writer
*[[1577]] - King [[Eric XIV of Sweden]] (b. [[1533]])
*[[1608]] - [[John Still]], English bishop
*[[1630]] - [[William Brade]], English composer (b. [[1560]])
*[[1638]] - [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]], French mathematician (b. [[1681]])
*[[1723]] - [[Thomas d'Urfey]], English writer (b. [[1653]])
*[[1726]] - [[Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria]] (b. [[1662]])
*[[1770]] - [[Giuseppe Tartini]], Italian composer (b. [[1692]])
*[[1813]] - [[Robert Livingston (1746-1813)|Robert Livingston]], American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. [[1746]])
*[[1903]] - [[Richard Jordan Gatling]], American inventor (b. [[1818]])
*[[1913]] - [[Felix Draeseke]], German composer (b. [[1835]])
*[[1921]] - [[Carl Menger]], Austrian economist (b. [[1840]])
*[[1931]] - [[Otto Wallach]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1847]])
*[[1961]] - King [[Mohammed V of Morocco]] (b. [[1909]])
*[[1966]] - [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]], Indian freedom fighter and writer (b. [[1883]])
*[[1969]] - [[Levi Eshkol]], [[Prime Minister of Israel]] (b. [[1895]])
*1969 - [[Karl Jaspers]], German psychiatrist (b. [[1883]])
*[[1971]] - [[Fernandel]], French actor (b. [[1903]])
*[[1981]] - [[Howard Hanson]], American composer (b. [[1896]])
*[[1985]] - [[Tjalling Koopmans]], Dutch economist (b. [[1910]]
*[[1993]] - [[Constance Ford]], American actress (b. [[1923]])
*[[1994]] - [[Bill Hicks]], American comedian (b. [[1961]])
*[[1997]] - [[David Doyle]], American actor (b. [[1929]])
*[[2002]] - [[Lawrence Tierney]], American actor (b. [[1919]])
*[[2004]] - [[Shankarrao Chavan]], Indian politician (b. [[1920]])
*2004 - [[Adolf Ehrnrooth]], Finnish general (b. [[1905]])
*2004 - [[Boris Trajkovski]], [[President of the Republic of Macedonia]] (b. [[1956]])
*[[2005]] - [[Jef Raskin]], American computer scientist (b. [[1943]])
==External link==
==Holidays and observances==
* [http://www.fortbend.k12.tx.us/campuses/whs/calendars.cfm Willowridge High School]
*[[Bahá'í Faith]] - Day 1 of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) - days in the Bahá'í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
*[[Nation of Islam]] - [[Saviour's Day]] - commemoration of the birthdate of [[Wallace Fard Muhammad]], believed to be [[Allah]] in human form, the saviour of the black race.
* [[Liberation Day]] in [[Kuwait]] ([[1991]])
[[Category:High schools in Texas]]
== External links ==
[[Category:Houston public education]]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/26 BBC: On This Day]
[[Category:Schools established in the 1970s]]
[[Category:Fort Bend Independent School District]]
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