Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2012. There are 326 days left in the year.

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1825: The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams president after no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes.

1870: The U.S. Weather Bureau is established.

1942: Daylight-saving “War Time” goes into effect in the United States, with clocks turned one hour forward.

1943: The World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ends with an Allied victory over Japanese forces.

1950: In a speech in Wheeling, W.Va., Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charges the State Department is riddled with Communists.

1971: A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in California’s San Fernando Valley claims 65 lives.

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1987: Enrollment at Youngstown’s two parochial high schools has dropped to less than half their 1970 peaks, with about 750 students each at Cardinal Mooney and Ursuline, says Dr. Nicholas Wolsonovich, diocesan superintendent.

A 60-year-old Forest View Drive man is being held in City Jail on a manslaughter charge after firing a shot that killed a 16-year-old Campbell youth who was apparently trying to steal the man’s car.

1972: Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter files a report listing his assets at $12,367, including mutual fund and stock holdings, $4,345 in savings and a 1984 Thunderbird valued at $650.

Four students in the School of Nursing at Jameson Memorial Hospital in New Castle are dismissed for the alleged purchase and use of marijuana.

1962: Driver John H. Mayberry jumps to safety after his tractor trailer loaded with steel rods loses its brakes on Walton Street. The truck crashes into a utility pole.

Paul Lamonge of Niles testifies in Trumbull Common Pleas Court that he was an “expediter” on Warren’s sewage system project and that Michigan contractor Rocco Ferrera insisted on giving him $5,000 as a gift.

1937: The Youngstown Board of Control approves purchase of four motorcycles for the police department and new police cars and radios. Chief Carl L. Olson says that about 20 new cruisers are needed in his department.

Youngstown fights the spread of flu with a continuing ban on visiting at hospitals and the county tuberculosis sanatorium. One school is closed.