Years Ago

Today is Monday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2012. There are 322 days left in the year.

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1741: Andrew Bradford of Pennsylvania publishes the first American magazine. The American Magazine, or A Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies lasts three issues.

1861: Abraham Lincoln is officially declared winner of the 1860 presidential election as electors cast their ballots.

1935: A jury in Flemington, N.J., finds Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.

1945: During World War II, Allied planes begin bombing the German city of Dresden.

1960: France explodes its first atomic bomb in the Sahara Desert.

1991: During Operation Desert Storm, allied planes destroy an underground shelter in Baghdad that had been identified as a military command center; Iraqi officials say 500 civilians were killed.

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1987: An enthusiastic crowd of 1,200, mostly teenagers, surrounds Sears, Roebuck and Co. in the Southern Park Mall. Some arrived in the early morning hours to buy tickets for the Bon Jovi concert at the Coliseum in Richland that were to go on sale at the Sears Ticketmaster window.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Charles J. Bannon suspends a six-month jail sentence for a 39-year old former sheriff’s deputy who resigned from the department and pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution at area truck stops.

1972: The Rev. George J. Kostan is the new priest of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church on N. Walnut Street.

One of the Youngstown District’s top-ranking older fabricating companies, General Fireproofing Co., is hanging on the ropes, gasping for financial breath, squeezed between constantly rising employment costs and rigid price ceilings fixed by competition.

1962: The Youngstown Board of Education purchases a 12-acre site from the Pietrabbondantesi Club for $14,500 as the site of a new East Side elementary school on Cuddy Street.

Estimated income to operate Mahoning County during 1963 is $500,000 less than was available in 1961, but department budget requests are $500,000 more than a year earlier.

1937: Youngstown district iron and steel plants, operating at practical capacity, are turning out the largest volume of iron and steel in years, yet it is not enough to meet national demand.

Swift & Co. wants to purchase land on W. Wood Street acquired by the city as part of the railroad grade separation project for construction of a plant.