On This Day In History 2/26

1732 1st mass celebrated in American Catholic church, (St Joseph's Church, Philadelphia).

1863 Lincoln signs National Currency Act.

1869 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states.

1870 1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered).

1895 Michael Owens of Toledo OH patents a glass-blowing machine.

1907 US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500.

1919 Acadia National Park established (as Lafayette National Park), Maine.

1930 1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC).

1933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field.

1935 New York Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves.

1936 Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen".

1944 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed.

1946 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia TN.

1954 Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records.

1962 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation.

1973 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m.

1975 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show).

1979 Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US.

1983 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks.

1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs.

1993 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die.

1998 Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial.