Today In History

Sat., Feb. 26, 2000

1815: Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from the Island of Elba to begin his second conquest of France.

1848: The Second French Republic was proclaimed.

1919: Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.

1929: President Calvin Coolidge signed a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park.

1940: The United States Air Defense Command was created.

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

1951: The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.

1952: Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed its own atomic bomb.

1987: The Tower Commission, which probed the Iran-Contra affair, issued its report, which rebuked President Reagan for failing to control his national security staff.

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.

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