By: Madisen Child Welcome back to the third installment “This Day In History,” where we feature a prominent event, birth, and death from one day spanning all of human history. This week is focused on February 26, just two days before the end of the month.
Birth: In 1802, one of the greatest and most well-known French writers, Victor Hugo, was born in Besançon, France. Hugo is responsible for writing Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Both works have since inspired musicals of the same names and a Disney rendition of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame in 1996. Hugo was born to Sophie Trébuchet, a painter, and Joseph Leopold Sigisbert Hugo, a general in the Napoleonic wars. He had two older brothers named Abel and Eugène. Abel was four years older and Eugène was two years older. Hugo showed an interest in writing poetry at a young age, even winning a poetry contest held by the Académie Française when he was 15 years old! Even now, Hugo is regarded as the greatest poet in French Romanticism, the style he wrote in. Death: “Paul Revere’s Ride ” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a well known poem written in 1860. During the American War of Independence, Paul Revere rode across the country to alert Americans of the oncoming British attack. What most people don’t know is that Revere wasn’t the only one who rode that night. One of these others was Sybil Ludington, a woman from New York. She was only 16 years old on the night of the attack. Although longer than Revere’s famous, “The British are coming,” Ludington has a quote of her own that she yelled that night. “The British are burning Danbury! Muster at Ludington's Mill!” She actually rode farther and warned more people than Revere! In 1836, 61 years after the fact, Ludington died in Catskill, New York at age 77. Event: Ever since President Theodore Roosevelt signed it into law in the early 1900s, US Presidents have held the right to reserve spots of land as national parks. One such area of land is Grand Teton National Park, located in Idaho. Grand Teton was established as a National Park in 1929 by President Calvin Coolidge. Grand Teton boasts many recreational activities, such as rafting down the Snake River, hiking, fishing, and boating. The park took decades to establish. The original order was one of Coolidge’s last acts as president in order to protect the Teton Mountain Range. As time went on, more presidents added to the park until it became the scenic, beautiful place it is today.
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