Today is Monday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2007. There are 308 days left in the year. On this date in 1907, concerns about a growing influx of foreigners, mostly Europeans, prompt Congress to create

Today is Monday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2007. There are 308 days left in the year. On this date in 1907, concerns about a growing influx of foreigners, mostly Europeans, prompt Congress to create what becomes known as the Dillingham Commission, which examines the impact of immigrants on America. (The panel later recommends curtailing immigration from southern and eastern Europe through use of quotas, higher entry fees, literacy tests and other restrictions.)
In 1870, an experimental air-driven subway, the Beach Pneumatic Transit, opens in New York City. (The tunnel was only a block long, and the line had only one car.) In 1919, Congress establishes Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. In 1929, President Coolidge signs a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park.In 1945, a midnight curfew on nightclubs, bars and other places of entertainment is set to go into effect across the nation. In 1952, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that Britain has developed its own atomic bomb. 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. In 1993, a bomb built by Islamic extremists explodes in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000.
February 26, 1982: Howard W. Jones, who was president of Youngstown College from the time it was built in 1931 until 1966, shortly before it became a state university, dies in St. Elizabeth Medical Center. Dr. Jones, who guided the college through its earliest days and its massive expansion in the 1960s, was 86.
Federal agents and Youngstown police raid the South Side headquarters of the Outlaws motorcycle gang, seizing a small amount of marijuana and a sizable arsenal of shotguns, rifles and handguns.
February 26, 1967: Nicholas Palaologus, 67, an East End grocer, is shot in the chest by a young thug at his store. He operates the store with his brothers, Pete and Anthony.
Half of the 100 patients at the new H-shaped Golden Hill Nursing Home on Friendship Street in New Castle are Medicare patients. The government pays 10.50 per day for each qualified patient.
February 26, 1957: General Motors Corp. outearned every other company in the world in 1956, despite a 340 million decline in net income. GM had sales of more than 10 billion and net income of 847 million, or 3.02 per share. The company earned almost 1.2 billion in 1955.
Some 5,000 workers turn in more than 33,000 after Heart Sunday's door-to-door canvass for the Youngstown Area Heart Association.
February 26, 1932: A 17-year-old boy who was held in the shooting death of Herman Halt, a contractor who was working on a roof in Eagle Street, has been released. Police are holding an unemployed 45-year-old father of 10 who they believe was shooting blackbirds to feed his family when Halt was shot.