YEARS AGO ON FEB. 26

Today is Sunday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2017. There are 308 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1815: Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from exile on the Island of Elba and heads back to France in a bid to regain power.

1904: The United States and Panama proclaim a treaty under which the U.S. agrees to undertake efforts to build a ship canal across the Panama isthmus.

1917: President Woodrow Wilson signs a congressional act establishing Mount McKinley National Park (now Denali National Park) in the Alaska Territory.

1919: President Woodrow Wilson signs a congressional act establishing Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.

1929: President Calvin Coolidge signs a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

1942: “How Green Was My Valley” wins the Academy Award for best picture of 1941, beating out nine other films, including “The Maltese Falcon” and “Citizen Kane”1945: Authorities order a midnight curfew at nightclubs, bars and other places of entertainment across the nation.

1952: Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that Britain has developed its own atomic bomb.

1962: After becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, astronaut John Glenn tells a joint meeting of Congress, “Exploration and the pursuit of knowledge have always paid dividends in the long run.”

1993: A truck bomb built by terrorists explodes in the parking garage of New York’s World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.

2012: Trayvon Martin, 17, is shot to death in Sanford, Fla., during an altercation with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who said he acted in self-defense. (Zimmerman was later acquitted of second-degree murder.) .

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1992: Youngstown police say Sanyika Trevathan, 19, was shot 18 times by an assailant in a house at 1530 Oak Lane. It was the fourth death by gunfire in five days.

United Telephone of Ohio in Warren will retain its name, but its logo will be changed and will bear the name of the company’s new owner, Sprint Corp.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency says it will not issue permits for any new construction- and demolition-debris landfill sites until tougher rules are in place to regulate them.

1977: Pennsylvania state Sen. R. Budd Dwyer of Meadville, R-50th, says the state public utilities commission should order reduced utility rates to offset excess profits reaped by gas and electric companies during an energy crisis sparked by severe winter weather.

The Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission asks city council to appropriate $189,000 for part-time employees to operate the city’s summer recreation program.

1967: Trumbull County deputies believe that Eve Gundros was beaten to death in her Warren Township home by someone who knew her.

The Youngstown University Women’s Physical Education Department plans its sixth annual dance concert. Twenty-three students will perform.

Dr. Chaplain Morrison, professor of history at Youngstown University, has had his book, “Democratic Politics and Sectionalism, the Wilmot Proviso Controversy,” accepted for publication by the University of North Carolina Press.

1942: Regular and special police vice squads continue raids on bookie joints and disorderly houses.

Local ice hockey fans will be given their second opportunity to witness the puck chasers in action when the Toledo Rovers meet the Akron Clippers at Valley Arena on West Federal Street.

The Youngstown Steel Door basketball team toppled the Shultz & Sons team 44-41 at the Lexington Street gym. Law scored 15 and Dellick 12 points for winners while W. Terlecky bagged 18 for the losers.