Today is Monday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2007. There are 315 days left in the year. This is

Today is Monday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2007. There are 315 days left in the year. This is Presidents' Day. On this date in 1945, during World War II, some 30,000 U.S. Marines begin landing on Iwo Jima, where they commence a month-long battle to seize control of the island from Japanese forces.
In 1803, Congress votes to accept Ohio's borders and constitution. In 1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr, accused of treason, is arrested in the Mississippi Territory, in present-day Alabama. (Burr is acquitted at trial.) In 1846, the Texas state government is formally installed in Austin, with J. Pinckney Henderson taking the oath of office as governor. In 1878, Thomas Edison receives a U.S. patent for "an improvement in phonograph or speaking machines." In 1881, Kansas prohibits the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. In 1942, President Roosevelt signs an executive order giving the military the authority to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals living in the United States. In 1942, Japanese warplanes, attacking in two waves, raid the Australian city of Darwin; at least 243 people are killed. In 1959, an agreement is signed by Britain, Turkey and Greece granting Cyprus its independence. In 1986, the U.S. Senate approves an international treaty outlawing genocide, 37 years after the pact had first been submitted for ratification.
February 19, 1982: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Forrest J. Cavalier orders Youngstown City Council to abide by the city charter and open all meetings to the public. The order was made following a suit filed by The Vindicator.
Mahoning County Common Plea Judge Henry Robinson issues an order restraining the city of Campbell from requiring striking city workers to take lie detector tests as part of the city's investigation into vandalism of city property.
February 19, 1967: Mrs. Michael J. Kirwan, wife of Youngstown's veteran congressman, will christen a new Navy ship, the U.S.S. Kilanea, in Hawaii in the summer.
FBI agents in Pittsburgh arrest two men who escaped from Trumbull County's new jail.
February 19, 1957: Four of the five children of Mr.. and Mrs. Dencil Anderson are killed when fire sweeps though the family home near Guilford Lake. Only the chimneys and a few timbers were left when the fire was extinguished.
& quot;Operation Vaccine & quot; gets under way in Youngstown schools as free Salk polio vaccine is administered to every child from the first to 12th grade.
Youngstown Municipal Judge Robert B. Nevin sentences a Regis Street man to six months in jail and fines him 500 after the man was arrested while driving on a license that had been suspended by Nevin in January. Nevin reminded the motorist that he warned him that he would be jailed if he were caught driving during his suspension.
February 19, 1932: A Trumbull county jury deliberates an hour and 10 minutes before finding George Barrett, 23-year-old Cleveland gunman, guilty of the killing Earl Gamble, a disabled war veteran, during a robbery at a Warren speakeasy Sept. 29. Barrett will face life in prison after the jury recommended mercy.
A 17-year-old West Avenue boy is taken into custody for questioning in the fatal shooting of contractor Herman Halt, who was shot while working on a roof in the neighborhood. Four detectives went door to door searching for 22-caliber firearms and arrested the boy after finding a rifle at his home.
Former heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey's attempted comeback ends in a four-round beating by King Levinksy, a hard-punching product of Chicago's ghetto, before 23,332 spectators in the Chicago Stadium.