Today is Saturday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2009. There are 327 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2009. There are 327 days left in the year. On this date in 1793, Austria and Prussia form an alliance against France.

In 1816, the Congress of New Grenada entrusts Simon Bolivar with political and military control in the invasion of Venezuela from Haiti. In 1831, Belgian’s constitution is proclaimed. In 1863, the HMS Orpheus is wrecked near New Zealand, killing 190 people. In 1944, German forces launch an assault on Allies’ Anzio bridgehead in World War II. In 1947, the British proposal for dividing Palestine into Arab and Jewish zones with administration as trusteeship is rejected by Arabs and Jews. In 1962, a coal mine explosion in Saarbruecken, Germany, kills 298 miners.

February 7, 1984: A record $1.8 million collected by Lordstown Village’s half-percent income tax helps provide the village with a staggering cash balance of $3.2 million at the end of 1983.

A 20-member committee appointed by Gov. Richard F. Celeste to combat organized crime in the state will have no representatives from Mahoning and Trumbull counties. Only sheriffs, prosecutors and police chiefs will serve on the committee.

The Dapper Dan Club of Pittsburgh honors a number of sport figures at the Hilton Hotel, including two Youngstown athletes, Boxer Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini and San Diego Pitcher Dave Dravecky.

February 7, 1969: Gov. James A. Rhodes asks the Ohio Legislature for $29.5 million to expand higher education facilities in Mahoning County over six years; $22 million for Youngstown State University and $7.5 million to establish the Mahoning County Community College.

For a second time, Youngstown City Council declines to approve moving forward on a new $4.8 million terminal building at Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Cyclops Corp., the big Pittsburgh steelmaker, pulls out of the multimillion-dollar race for control of Sharon Steel Corp.

February 7, 1959: U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan announces that he will try to get sufficient funds appropriated so that work can begin before the end of 1959 on the West Branch and Shenango flood control dams.

Two women and four men are arrested in Farrell for trafficking in numbers after 18 state police swoop down on the city.

Charles G. Nichols, president of the G.M. McKelvey Co., challenges Youngstown leaders to form a 15-man Citizens Action Committee that would raise $60,000 to finance surveys and plans for revitalization of the downtown area.

February 7, 1934: Gen. Smedley Butler, former Marine and safety director of Philadelphia, tells Youngstown Rotarians, “people are beginning to steam up for a general housecleaning in government, especially in the Middle-West.”

Melvin K. Whiteleather, former Youngstown newspaperman, reports from Paris on the riots that have killed 50 and injured more than 1,000. He saw the beginnings of the battle between rioters and police from his balcony in the Hotel Crillon.

Representatives of 25,000 steel workers of the Mahoning Valley and Pennsylvania pass a resolution while meeting in Warren calling for a $150 million government subsidy to the steel industry to scrap high-production machinery and put thousands of mill men back to work.