Today’s Highlights

On Feb. 26, 1993, a truck bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of the North Tower of New York’s World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.

On this date

1919: President Woodrow Wilson signed an act making the Grand Canyon a national park.

1952: Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed its own atomic bomb.

1987: The Tower Commission issued a report on the Iran-Contra affair, which rebuked President Ronald Reagan for failing to control his national security staff.

1998: A jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey’s talk show for a price fall after a segment on food safety that included a discussion about mad cow disease.

2012: Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot to death in Sanford, Florida, during an altercation with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who said he acted in self-defense.

2013: A hot air balloon burst into flames during a sunrise flight over the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor, killing 19 tourists.

2017: At the Academy Awards, “Moonlight” won three Oscars.

Today’s birthdays

Singer Mitch Ryder is 80. Singer Michael Bolton is 72. Hockey Hall of Famer Joe Mullen is 68. Actor Greg Germann is 67. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., is 67. Singer Erykah Badu is 54. Filmmaker Sean Baker is 54.