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Good News On This Day in History – February 26

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2,772 years ago today, the Neo Babylonian king Nabonassar assumed the throne of the great city of Babylon .

A lunar eclipse occurred on February 6th , 747 BCE , which is the same year that Ptolemy records that Nabonasar became king.

This chronology allows us to count forward and backward in time using the dates of celestial events.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the first useful web browser 34 years ago today .

Jackie Gleason was the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program in America , co-hosting All Things Considered , one of the most popular radio programs in the country.

The Grand Canyon was proclaimed a National Park by the US Congress .

Gleason was an amateur musician who produced more than a dozen romantic best-selling “mood music” LPs.

The band leader for several of them, Bobby Hackett , said, “ Jackie knows a lot more about music than people give him credit for” Nearly all of Gleason ’s albums are still available and have been re-released on compact disks.