Years Ago

Today is Friday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2012. There are 325 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1763: Britain, Spain and France sign the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years’ War.

1840: Britain’s Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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

1912: Joseph Lister, the “Father of Antiseptic Surgery,” dies in Walmer, Kent, England, at age 84.

1942: The former French liner Normandie capsizes in New York Harbor a day after it catches fire while being refitted for the U.S. Navy.

RCA Victor presents Glenn Miller and his Orchestra with a “gold record” for their recording of “Chattanooga Choo Choo,” which had sold more than 1 million copies.

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1987: Employees strike Fairhaven School and workshops in Niles after failing to reach a new contract between the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 1992, and the Fairhaven board.

Jameson Memorial Hospital in New Castle will direct many of its future programs toward Lawrence County’s growing elderly population, says hospital President Thomas White.

1972: Another record low is registered at the Youngstown Municipal Airport weather station as the temperature drops to –7 degrees.

Atty. Irwin Stambor, president of the Western Reserve Transit Authority, says he believes the chances for passage of a bus levy on the March 21 ballot are “excellent.”

Although hampered by the cold, work is underway to start up five open hearth furnaces at U.S. Steel Corp.’s Ohio Works that have been idle since July.

1962: Accompanied by his wife and 14-year-old son, Mitt, Industrialist George Romney holds a press conference in Detroit announcing that he will seek the Republican nomination for governor of Michigan.

Joseph S. Beller, retired official of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., will be foreman of the Mahoning County Grand Jury which convened under Judge Forrest J. Cavalier.

1937: Several Youngstown men in their 70s tell The Vindicator’s Esther Hamilton that President Roosevelt’s plan to impose a retirement age of 70 on Supreme Court justices is “hooey,” and “a man is as young as he feels and acts.”

Seven men and two women have applied for the $5,000-a year job of Youngstown Postmaster.