Today is Thursday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2009. There are 308 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
In 1945, a midnight curfew on night clubs, bars and other places of entertainment was set to go into effect across the nation.
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In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the Island of Elba in Italy.
In 1945, a midnight curfew on night clubs, bars and other places of entertainment was set to go into effect across the nation.
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 1940, the U.S. Air Defense Command was created.
In 1952, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed its own atomic bomb.
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.
In 2004, two church-sanctioned studies documenting sex abuse by U.S. Roman Catholic clergy said that about 4 percent of clerics had been accused of molesting minors since 1950 and blamed bishops’ “moral laxity” in disciplining offenders for letting the problem worsen.
In 2008, a power failure later blamed primarily on human error plunged large parts of Florida into darkness.
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