Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2011. There are 318 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1868: The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized in New York City.

1923: The burial chamber of King Tutankhamen’s recently unearthed tomb is unsealed in Egypt by English archaeologist Howard Carter.

1945: American troops land on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines during World War II.

1959: Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba a month and a-half after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.

1960: The nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton departs New London, Conn. on the first submerged circumnavigation by a vessel.

1968: The nation’s first 911 emergency telephone system is inaugurated, in Haleyville, Ala.

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1986: Dr. Harold M. Kolenbrander, named the incoming president of Mt. Union College, says Mt. Union’s heritage and future are firmly rooted in the liberal arts.

Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro will be joined by Henry DiBlasio, representing U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., and a representative of Gov. Richard F. Celeste in a discussion entitled, “The Revitalization of Youngstown.”

1971: Federal government representatives say that local governments would be expected to provide half the $2 million cost of operating a Mahoning-Trumbull Mass Transit Plan for three years.

The areas’s newest Kroger store, an 18,803 square foot supermarket, opens at Belmont Avenue and Goldie Road in Liberty Township.

Navy Cmdr. James R. Crum receives the annual Col. L.R. Boals award for the Youngstown area’s outstanding military reservist.

1961: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan announces a $300,000 grant for construction of a new Mahoning County Home.

1936: Youngstown sanitary police close one restaurant and suspend the licenses of four others for insanitary methods of food preparation and lack of toilet facilities.

Fred W. Green of the Home Savings Loan Co. suggests the diamond in Central Square be removed to facilitate traffic flow or that cattle be allowed to graze on the grassy area so that the city might get some benefit from it.