Daily Archives: February 26, 2016

Germany finishes first in overall medals as 2006 Winter Olympics concludes in Turin, Italy 10 years ago today (Feb 26 2006)


Video: 'Highlights of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics'

(Sunday, February 26, 2006, during the 2006 Winter Olympics) — On the final day of the Turin Winter Olympics, Sweden beat Finland 3-2 today to win the men’s hockey gold.

Germany finished first in overall medals with 29 and golds with 11, while the Americans won 25 medals overall, nine of them gold.

‘Bad Boy/Tell Me Why’ episode airs on ‘The Beatles’ cartoon series 50 years ago this hour (Feb 26 1966)


Video: 'The Beatles Episode 23'

(Saturday, February 26, 1966, 10:30 a.m. EST) — The Beatles meet a young boy who would rather be one of the Beatles than to stay home with his family, and later, they come across a donkey that upon hearing their music, runs away at breakneck speed on this morning’s episode of The Beatles, a weekly cartoon television series on ABC.

Galileo formally banned from teaching that the Earth orbits the sun 400 years ago today (Feb 26 1616)


Video: 'Teach Astronomy - Galileo and the Church'

(Monday, February 26, 1616) — Astronomer Galileo Galilei met today with a Roman Inquisition official, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, who ordered him to abandon the “heretical” concept of heliocentrism, which held that the earth revolved around the sun, instead of the other way around.