TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Feb. 26, 1917

President Woodrow Wilson signed a congressional act establishing Mount McKinley National Park (now Denali National Park) in the Alaska Territory. The Original Dixieland Jass Band (an all-white group) made what’s generally regarded as the first commercial jazz recording, “Dixie Jass Band One-Step” and “Livery Stable Blues,” in New York for the Victor label.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1904

The United States and Panama proclaimed a treaty under which the U.S. agreed to undertake efforts to build a ship canal across the Panama isthmus.

1945

Authorities ordered a midnight curfew at nightclubs, bars and other places of entertainment across the nation.

1970

National Public Radio was incorporated.