Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2011. There are 324 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1841: Upper Canada and Lower Canada are proclaimed united under an Act of Union passed by the British Parliament.

1959: A major tornado tears through the St. Louis, Mo., area, killing 21 people and causing heavy damage.

1968: U.S. figure skater Peggy Fleming wins America’s only gold medal of the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

1981: Eight people are killed when a fire set by a busboy breaks out at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino.

2005: Playwright Arthur Miller dies in Roxbury, Conn., at age 89 on the 56th anniversary of the Broadway opening of his “Death of a Salesman.”

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins asks the Ohio Supreme Court to clarify the law on possible removal from office of Commissioner Thomas Battin, who was incapacitated in an auto accident in June.

1971: Robert D. Rowland is named president and chief executive of Dollar Savings & Trust Co. in Youngstown.

Shirley Martinez, a South High graduate who is a nurse in Los Angeles, calls her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Wray in Youngstown, to say she safely escaped from the fourth floor of Olive View Hospital which was heavily damaged in an earthquake that killed more than 40 people and injured 1,000.

1961: Larry Lewis, a New York stock expert, tells 500 people in the crowded ballroom of the Hotel Pick Ohio in Youngstown that a new wrinkle-proof facial lotion and vast untapped oil reserves in Kuwait are just two of the things affecting the stock market these days.

1936: A dynamite bomb explodes on the front porch of the home of Guy Acerra in Girard. Acerra, who owns a grocery store and wine shop, and nine members of his family escaped injury.

Dozens of people are ticketed for reckless driving or illegal parking in a crackdown by Youngstown police. Among those paying $1 parking fines were Sheriff Ralph Elser and Police Capt. John Putko.