Today is Saturday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 2006. There are 309 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Saturday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 2006. There are 309 days left in the year. On this date in 1793, the department heads of the U.S. government meet with President Washington at his home for the first Cabinet meeting on record.
In 1570, Pope Pius V excommunicates England's Queen Elizabeth I. In 1836, inventor Samuel Colt patents his revolver. In 1901, United States Steel Corporation is incorporated by J.P. Morgan. In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, is declared in effect. In 1948, Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia. In 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev harshly criticizes the late Josef Stalin in a speech before a Communist Party congress in Moscow. In 1964, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) becomes world heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Fla. In 1973, the Stephen Sondheim musical "A Little Night Music" opens at Broadway's Shubert Theater. In 1986, President Ferdinand E. Marcos flees the Philippines after 20 years of rule in the wake of a tainted election; Corazon Aquino assumes the presidency. In 1991, during the Persian Gulf War, 28 Americans are killed when an Iraqi Scud missile hits a U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
February 25, 1981: Joseph DeRose, 62, a home remodeling contractor, is gunned down in the driveway of his home at 8126 Deerpath Drive, Boardman. Police and FBI agents believe the shooters mistook DeRose for his son, Joseph Jr., a rackets figure.
Superintendent Emmanuel Catsoules said he is on the verge of closing city schools as the striking teachers tighten their grip on operations.
The Fifth Avenue Bridge across the Madison Avenue expressway, used by at least 10,000 cars a day, is closed for rehabilitation, which will probably take five months.
February 25, 1966: The Youngstown Transit Co. reports its best year in a decade in 1965, earning $64,490 carrying 471,000 passengers.
Elementary level spectator sports will be de-emphasized in schools in the Youngstown Diocese, the Diocesan Board of Education says. It rules that no games may start after 5 p.m.
The six-year-old St. Jude Mission in Columbiana is elevated to parish status and Msgr. P. Breen Malone is named its first pastor.
February 25, 1956: Hurricane-like winds up to 80 miles per hour lashed the Youngstown area, smashing store windows, blowing over trees, damaging buildings and injuring at least one man. Damage is estimated at $100,00.
Niles City Council acts to end litigation delaying construction of the Berlin-Meander pipeline, instructing city solicitor R.C. Westenfield to dismiss its suit against the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.
Youngstown firefighters rescue Bessie L. Vangorder, 65, from her Pennsylvania Ave. home, but she is in St. Elizabeth Hospital in poor condition with burns.
February 25, 1931: Irene Shrader is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery near Bellaire, Ohio, at daybreak, while four eastern newspaper photographers cooled their heels in the city jail. Sheriff Duff said he arrested the photographers to prevent bloodshed; relatives of Irene said there would be a killing if the privacy of the funeral was violated.
Mahoning County Common Pleas Court judges send a letter to Ohio Attorney General Gilbert Bettman asking that a state grand jury investigate accusations of blackmail against Youngstown Traction Commissioner Harry Engel.
Clyde Gibson, former New Castle attorney, pleads guilty to embezzlement and is sentenced to 18 months in the Allegheny Workhouse.