Today is Friday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2008. There are 313 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2008. There are 313 days left in the year. On this date in 1732, the first president of the United States, George Washington, is born at his parents’ plantation in the Virginia Colony.

In 1862, Jefferson Davis, already the provisional president of the Confederacy, is inaugurated for a six-year term as president following his election the previous November. In 1889, President Cleveland signs an omnibus bill to admit the Dakotas, Montana and Washington state to the Union. In 1892, “Lady Windermere’s Fan” by Oscar Wilde is first performed, at London’s St. James’ Theater.

February 22, 1983: OPEC oil ministers agree to slash oil prices $7 per barrel to $30.

James A. Weitzel, 46, of Creed Road is injured when his ultralight airplane crashes during takeoff at Green Acres Lake Park campgrounds in Lake Milton.

Advertisement: USAir and Allegheny Commuter offer nonstop flights from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles for $129 each way, based on a round trip purchase.

February 22, 1968: Pickands Mather Co. of Cleveland completes acquisition of Carbon Limestone Co. of Lowellville and will operate the company as a subsidiary, retaining its old name.

Dr. Anthony L. Julius Jr., director of a proposed air pollution program a Youngstown University, offers to act as a free consultant to Struthers on its air pollution problems.

Youngstown and Teamsters Local 377 reach tentative agreement on a new contract that will raise the pay for a full-time garbage truck driver from $8,452 annually to $9,430, plus fringe benefits.

February 22, 1958: Youngstown 6th Ward Councilman John Tobin, wanted for the largest swindle in Youngstown history, is nabbed in Houston, Texas, where he was attempting to set up a new scam. He and an accomplice, Paul Shade, were passing themselves off as engineers in several fashionable Houston clubs. Shade remains at large.

Five gunmen, operating quickly and efficiently, terrorize 25 people at the Tamarkin Wholesale Co. on Meridian Road, escaping with more than $3,000 in cash and payroll checks.

Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Pa., announces that Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. is the top winner in the nation for a radio program for its 1957 series of daily programs on WKBN radio “pointing up the American system.”

February 22, 1933: Ten building and loan institutions in Youngstown, Warren, Niles, Girard and Canfield agree interest rates on mortgages will not be reduced at present because to do so would bring a cut in the rates being paid on savings, which range from three percent to four percent.

A gunman who wears spats and drives an old roadster with yellow wheels holds up Howard Magic’s store at 853 High St., escaping with $18.

Smoking rooms for coeds at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, are being established in the women’s dormitories, but the rule against smoking elsewhere on campus will be retained.