Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2011. There are 333 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1790: The U.S. Supreme Court convenes for the first time in New York.

1920: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police comes into existence, merging the Royal North West Mounted Police and the Dominion Police.

1960: Four black college students begin a sit-in after being denied service at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.

1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini receives a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ends nearly 15 years of exile.

1991: Thirty-four people are killed when an arriving USAir jetliner crashes atop a commuter plane on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport.

2003: The space shuttle Columbia breaks up during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members.

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1986: Employees of Mount Union College take $50 of their pay in $2 bills as part of an exercise in showing the broad footprint that the college has on the area economy as the bills work their way into circulation.

The United Steelworkers union agrees to give the financially troubled LTV Steel Corp. immediate relief by deferring wage and cost-of-living restorations that were to go into effect Feb. 1.

1971: Record-shattering sub-zero temperatures hit the Youngstown area, with the mercury dipping to -7 at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Mr. and Mrs. Gus Horanski and their five children flee into sub-zero weather after fire sweeps through their one-story ranch home at 39 Parish Ave. in Hubbard.

1961: Joseph Tholl, a Cleveland handwriting expert, testifies in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court that he believes a nurse at the Trumbull County Home marked 15 of 30 ballots of home residents who cast absentee ballots in November race for Trumbull County commissioner.

Patrolman Ralph Balestra, 35, is hospitalized after his police car was struck broadside in Bears Den Road at Old Furnace Road.

Willard Henderson rolls a 300 game at Liberty Lanes while bowling in the General Fireproofing League.

1936: Squandering of taxpayer money by former city Water Commissioner Dan Parish and former Finance Director Hugh D. Hindman comes to light in a probe that shows Parish refused to allow a competing insurance firm to submit a lower bid than that given by a favored agent and Hindman approved split contracts to avoid competitive bidding.

City council approves an ordinance cutting the pay of police, firemen and municipal court employees in a move that will save the city $90,000, but came under attack by Judge Peter B. Mulholland.