Today is Thursday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2004. There are 309 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2004. There are 309 days left in the year. On this date in 1993, a bomb built by a group of Islamic extremists explodes in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from the Island of Elba to begin his second conquest of France. In 1848, the Second French Republic is proclaimed. In 1919, Congress establishes Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. In 1929, President Coolidge signs a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park. In 1940, the United States Air Defense Command is created. In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, is ratified. In 1952, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that Britain has developed its own atomic bomb. In 1962, after becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, John Glenn tells a joint meeting of Congress, "Exploration and the pursuit of knowledge have always paid dividends in the long run." In 1979, a total solar eclipse casts a moving shadow 175 miles wide from Oregon to North Dakota before moving into Canada. In 1987, the Tower Commission, which probed the Iran-Contra affair, issues its report, which rebukes President Reagan for failing to control his national security staff.
February 26, 1979: The Scott Township Volunteer Fire Department is called out to rescue a fellow fireman by rowboat after he became stranded in his cottage home by the rising waters of Slippery Rock Creek.
The Oak Street Bridge will be closed for months while Youngstown Mayor J. Phillip Richley and City Engineer Carmen Conglose decide whether to push for repair or replacement of the deteriorating span.
The White House delays submission to Congress of two sets of standby mandatory energy conservation plans, including gasoline rationing and weekend service station closings.
February 26, 1964: Boxer Billy Tanner of Youngstown, boxing in the 126-pound class, gives an impressive performance in registering a TKO over Ronald Harris of Detroit in the third round of the Golden Gloves tournament in Louisville.
The boxing world is abuzz over what many term the greatest upset in pugilistic history, the dethronement of Sonny Liston as heavyweight champion by Cassius Clay, a 7-1 underdog. Liston fails to answer the bell at the start of the seventh round.
Four branch libraries are approved for construction in 1964 by the trustees of the Reuben McMillan Free Library Association. One of the buildings will be at 1344 Fifth Ave. and will be named for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John H. Clark. Other new branches will be in Poland, Campbell and Sebring.
February 26, 1954: Youngstown will be entitled to add $10.8 million worth of street improvements over eight years as part of the $500 million Ohio arterial highway construction program drafted by the State Highway Department.
The Citizens Bus Franchise Committee asks Youngstown City Council to try to prevail upon the Youngstown Municipal Railway Co. to provide adequate service to the Boardman-Austintown areas as a condition of a new franchise.
Youngstown municipal and Chamber of Commerce officials are told that if Central Square is to be streamlined it will have to be done with city funds because no state money would be available until at least 1956.
February 26, 1929: The Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.'s annual statement shows that the company earned $9.5 million in 1928, as compared with $6 million in 1927.
The Rev. M. Rhodes, pastor of the Mount Zion Baptist Church, and Otto Campbell, a member of the church, who staged a fight in E. Federal Street are both found guilty of disturbance and fined $25. The fight is alleged to have been over church affairs.
Fifty Protestant churches of Youngstown subscribe $18,005 in the annual campaign of Federated Churches to support the church cooperative movement in Youngstown.