History for February 26

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Victor Hugo 1802 - Author

• 1907 - The U.S. Congress raised their own pay to $7500.
• 1916 - Mutual signed Charlie Chaplin to a film contract.
• 1919 - In Arizona, the Grand Canyon was established as a National Park with an act of the U.S. Congress.
• 1929 - U.S. President Coolidge signed a bill creating the Grand Teton National Park.
• 1930 - New York City installed traffic lights.
• 1987 - The U.S.S.R. conducted its first nuclear weapons test after a 19-month moratorium period.
• 1993 - Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.