Singer Fats Domino is 81.

Political columnist Robert Novak is 78.

Actor-director Bill Duke is 66.

Singer Michael Bolton is 56.

Actor Greg Germann is 51.

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is 51.

Rock musician Tim Commerford (Audioslave) is 41.

Singer Erykah Badu (inset) is 38.

Rock musician Chris Culos (O.A.R.) is 30.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Corinne Bailey Rae is 30.

Actress Taylor Dooley is 16.

On Feb. 26, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the Island of Elba in Italy.

In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signed a measure establishing Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.

In 1929, President Calvin Coolidge signed a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

In 1945, a midnight curfew on night clubs, bars and other places of entertainment was set to go into effect across the nation.

In 1979, a total solar eclipse cast a moving shadow 175 miles wide from Oregon to North Dakota before moving into Canada.

In 1993, a bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.

"Nothing is more frightful than laughter when it comes to jealousy."

-- Francoise Sagan, French author (1935-2004).