Today is Sunday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2007. There are 316 days left in the year. This is the Chinese New Year. On this date in 1885, Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is published in

Today is Sunday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2007. There are 316 days left in the year. This is the Chinese New Year. On this date in 1885, Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is published in the United States for the first time.
In 1546, Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, dies in Eisleben. In 1564, artist Michelangelo dies in Rome. In 1861, Jefferson Davis is sworn in as president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala. In 1930, photographic evidence of Pluto (now designated a "dwarf planet") is discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. In 1960, the VIII Winter Olympic Games are formally opened in Squaw Valley, Calif., by Vice President Richard Nixon. In 1967, American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer dies in Princeton, N.J., at age 62. In 1970, the "Chicago Seven" defendants are found innocent of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention; five are convicted of violating the Anti-Riot Act of 1968 (those convictions are later reversed). In 1977, the space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop a Boeing 747, goes on its maiden "flight" above the Mojave Desert. In 1988, Anthony M. Kennedy is sworn in as the 104th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2001, auto racer Dale Earnhardt Sr., 49, dies from injuries suffered in a crash at the Daytona 500.
February 18, 1982: Freezing rain hits the Youngstown area, causing two fatal accidents in western Pennsylvania and the closing of several area school districts.
Walter Morgan, president of the Trumbull County NAACP, tells Niles City Council that complaints of brutal treatment of inmates in the city jail are increasing.
Needy people in the Youngstown area have begun receiving their shares of 41,250 pounds of government surplus cheese allotted to Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
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February 18, 1967: A Boardman teenager was stabbed in the back and a 20-year-old South Side Youth was arrested for questioning after a fight near the South High Fieldhouse following a tournament basketball game between South and Boardman. Joseph Salpietra, 15, is in fair condition at South Side Hospital.
A Marine corporal from Texas is being held in the shooting of Youngstown Marine Sgt. James Williams, 20, at a California naval base. Williams, a Vietnam veteran, is in critical condition at the Camp Pendleton base hospital.
Charles J. Moss III and Michael Luchansky, members of Boy Scout Troop 114 at St. Charles Church, Boardman, receive scouting's highest honor, the Eagle Scout award.
February 18, 1957: Julius Cercone, 41, owner of a McAllister Farm Market Store on Gibson Street in Youngstown, is stabbed to death by a robber who attempted to take cash from the register and groceries.
Two jet pilots from the Youngstown Air Force Base escape serious injury when their T33 jet trainer crashes and bursts into flames at Lowry air Base, Denver, Colo. One of the pilots, Capt. Robert Clemenson of Sharon, was pulled unconscious from the wreckage by the other pilot, Lt. Col. Irving L. Wadington, commander of the 86th fighter Interceptor squadron at Youngstown.
An eight-room elementary school building is destroyed by fire at West Pittsburg, Pa.
Stanley Kolb Jr., 7, is killed by a 22-caliber rifle with which he and two other children had been playing at a neighbor's home.
February 18, 1932: Herman Halt, a Youngstown contractor, is near death after being struck by a bullet while on the roof of a house he was razing at 130 N. West Ave. Police believe he was struck by a stray shot, not on purpose.
Between 80 and 100 men will be put to work widening state roads in Mahoning County after the state provides 30,000 for road work.
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