Other Notable Events, February 26

In 1998, a federal jury in Amarillo, Texas, ruled in favor of Oprah Winfrey in a lawsuit filed by Texas cattlemen. They said she caused beef prices to fall with her 1996 talk show about mad cow disease.

In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted its nationwide ban on protests that interfere with abortion clinic business.

Also in 2003, a Colombian army helicopter searching for guerrillas crashed in the mountains in northern Colombia, killing all 23 people aboard.

In 2004, the U.S. Senate approved a measure requiring child safety locks be supplied with most handguns sold in the United States.

In 2005, Bank of America acknowledged it lost computer tapes containing account information on 1.2 million federal employee credit cards, including those of some U.S. senators.

In 2006, the Winter Olympic Games ended in Turin, Italy. Germany won the most medals, 29, of which 11 were gold. The U.S. team won 25 medals, including nine gold. Canada, Austria and Russia came next.

In 2007, the death toll from a fire aboard an Indonesian ferry that later sank rose to 48 with scores of people missing off Jakarta.

In 2008, as U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., moved closer to clinching the Republican presidential nomination, a USA Today/Gallup Poll indicated it would be a tight race for the presidency no matter whether Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., or Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., won the almost dead-heat Democratic contest.

In 2009, the Obama administration estimated government spending during the 2010 fiscal year to be $3.55 trillion, 9.8 percent less than 2009, and expected revenues to rise 8.9 percent to $2.38 trillion.

Also in 2009, the Bangladesh military was called in to put down a mutiny by border guards, who staged a violent, wide-spread rebellion, reportedly over money. Officials placed the death toll at 77.

In 2010, the three major U.S. stock market indexes were on the plus side in February as the Dow Jones industrial average showed a 2.6 percent one-month gain and closed at 10,325.26 while the Nasdaq composite rose 4.2 percent and the Standard and Poor's 500 was up 2.9 percent.

In 2011, the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose strong sanctions on Libya and called for a war crimes investigation.

In 2012, a riot at a Venezuelan prison left a reported 50 people dead and dozens injured, latest in a series of violent incidents in the nation's crowded jails.