MOMENTS IN TIME - Feb. 17, 2011

The History Channel

* On Feb. 25, 1873, Enrico Caruso, the greatest tenor who ever lived, is born. After making New York’s Metropolitan Opera his home base in 1904, Caruso recorded scores of arias of three- and four-minutes in length — the longest duration that could fit on a 78 rpm record.

* On Feb. 26, 1919, more than 800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon is established as a national park. The Grand Canyon is the product of millions of years of excavation by the mighty Colorado River. The chasm is exceptionally deep — dropping more than a mile into the earth — and is 15 miles across at its wides...