Years Ago

Today is Friday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 2011. There are 309 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1836: Inventor Samuel Colt patents his revolver.

1901: United States Steel Corp. is incorporated by J.P. Morgan.

1913: The 16th Amendment to the Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, is declared in effect by Secretary of State Philander Chase Knox.

1964: Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) becomes world heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Sonny Liston in Miami Beach.

1991: During the Persian Gulf War, 28 Americans are killed when an Iraqi Scud missile hits a U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

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1986: Girard City Council approves an ordinance abolishing the city Recreation Board after hearing a report that blasted the board’s 1985 spending practices.

State Sen. Harry Meshel says the Youngstown area delegation is working to find funding for repairs that would save the aging Lake Milton dam from being breached.

1971: The Rev. Charles Frost, director of McGuffey Center and co-pastor of McGuffey Memorial United Methodist Church, is sworn in as president of Youngstown City Council, succeeding John M. Hudzik, who resigned.

The federal Office of Economic Opportunity cuts its funding of the Mahoning County Legal Assistance Association, which provides legal services to the county’s poor.

Advertisement: Tire sale, one low price, $11 per tire for small cars, $12 for medium and $14 for large at Goodyear’s four area stores, downtown, Boardman, Liberty and Austintown.

1961: Curtis E. Cope, 33, of Columbiana, is killed when a huge truck tire he was changing exploded at Lombardi’s Tire Service in North Lima.

United Steelworker officials rap the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s plans to build a plant with European steel firms in Belgium as an attempt to steal the American export market and dodge U.S. taxes.

1936: Youngstown City Council approves a 1956 budget of $1.3 million, about $500,000 less than 1935.

Dr. Sydney M. McCurdy, Youngstown surgeon and physician for 33 years, is named medical supervisor of the Ohio Industrial Commission in Columbus.

Youngstown City Council’s utilities committee is drawing up routes for trackless trolleys on the city’s South Side, preparatory to submitting legislation for electric buses.