This day in history — Feb. 26
On Feb. 26, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signed a congressional act establishing Grand Canyon National Park in...
This day in history — Feb. 26 On Feb. 26, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signed a congressional act establishing Grand Canyon National Park in... Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/life/green-sheet/2016/02/24/this-day-in-history-feb-26/84818136/
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Dawn paints the rock formations along the South Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park, established on this day in 1919.(Photo: TNS)
Today's highlight in history
On Feb. 26, 1970, National Public Radio was incorporated.
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the Island of Elba and headed back to France in a bid to regain power.
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signed a congressional act establishing Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
In 1929, President Calvin Coolidge signed a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
In 1945, authorities ordered a midnight curfew at nightclubs, bars and other places of entertainment across the nation.
In 1952, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed its own atomic bomb.
In 1993, a truck bomb built by terrorists exploded in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
In 2012, Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot to death in Sanford, Fla., by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who said he had acted in self-defense. (Zimmerman was later acquitted of second-degree murder.)
Ten years ago: The Turin Winter Olympics concluded, with Germany first in overall medals with 29 and golds with 11, while the Americans won 25 medals overall, nine of them gold.
Five years ago: In a statement, President Barack Obama said Moammar Gadhafi had lost his legitimacy to rule and urged the Libyan leader to leave power immediately.
One year ago: Internet activists declared victory over the nation's big cable companies after the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to impose the toughest rules yet on broadband service to prevent companies like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T from creating paid fast lanes and slowing or blocking web traffic.
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