Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2011. There are 312 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1862: Jefferson Davis, already the provisional president of the Confederacy, is inaugurated for a six-year term following his election in Nov. 1861.

1909: The Great White Fleet, a naval task force sent on a round-the-world voyage by President Theodore Roosevelt, returns after more than a year at sea.

1924: President Calvin Coolidge delivers the first radio broadcast from the White House as he addresses the country over 42 stations.

1940: The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) is enthroned at age four in Lhasa, Tibet.

1959: The inaugural Daytona 500 race is held; although Johnny Beauchamp is initially declared the winner, the victory is later awarded to Lee Petty.

1980: The “Miracle on Ice” takes place in Lake Placid, N.Y., as the United States Olympic hockey team upsets the Soviets, 4-3. (The U.S. team goes on to win the gold medal.)

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1986: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., better known as A&P, is just a memory in Salem, as one of the last stores in Ohio operated by the company closes. The Salem location will become a Sparkle Market.

Charging that Gov. Richard F. Celeste has ignored the Mahoning Valley, former Gov. James A. Rhodes says that an industrial development plan for northeast Ohio is needed to create jobs in the Valley.

1971: James R. Watson, who operates the Shenango Valley’s only full-time ambulance service, says he will expand his fleet to six vehicles, but only if the area’s 15 funeral homes pledge to discontinue their part-time ambulance service.

Mrs. John Wean and Donald Leonhart are cochairman of the 45th annual Youngstown Playhouse membership campaign.

1961: John Knox, assistant chief engineer of U.S. Steel Co., says that at a time of increasing wages and a declining demand for steel by local fabricators, Youngstown city government is driving away the steel industry by making demands for air and water pollution controls.

Dr. David Belinky, Mahoning County coroner, gives Dr. Howard Jones, president of Youngstown University, a check for $500 to establish a reference library on medicine at YU.

1936: Barbara Hutch, 10, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital, four months after being severely burned when a playmate poured gasoline on a backyard fire, thinking it was water. Lloyd Gray, 4, died the day of the fire.

The Seven-Mile Run Inn on Route 18 a half mile west of Austintown is destroyed by fire. Firemen pour water on two nearby gasoline pumps to keep the fire from spreading and avoid an explosion.