Monday, February 20, 2012
Today is Monday, Feb. 20, the 51st day of 2012. There are 315 days left in the year. This is Presidents’ Day.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1792: President George Washington signs an act creating the U.S. Post Office.
1809: The Supreme Court rules that no state legislature can annul the judgments or determine the jurisdictions of federal courts.
1862: William Wallace Lincoln, the 11-year-old son of President Abraham Lincoln and first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, dies at the White House, apparently of typhoid fever.
1907: President Theodore Roosevelt signs an immigration act which excludes “idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons” from being admitted to the United States.
1962: In Project Mercury’s Friendship 7 spacecraft, Astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth.
1987: A bomb left by Unabomber Ted Kaczynski explodes behind a computer store in Salt Lake City, seriously injuring store owner Gary Wright.
2003: Fire breaks out during a rock concert at a nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., killing 100 people and injuring 200.
VINDICATOR FILES
1987: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. moves to have the use of the Carabbia tapes blocked from use against him in U.S. Tax Court. The government is using the tapes to bolster its claim that Traficant accepted $63,000 from mobsters Charles and Orland Carabbia.
About 250 LTV Steel Co. retirees march outside the company’s Warren Works to protest cuts to their pension benefits and looming threats to their health and life insurance benefits.
1972: United Auto Workers Union locals at Lordstown and Wilmington, Del., say they’ll strike March 3 unless disputes involving production standards and speeds are resolved.
Some 80 Campbell municipal employees, including police and fire, end a four-day strike after being offered pay raises totaling 7 percent.
1962: Television sets appear in offices and other unusual spots throughout Youngstown, and thousands of viewers hold their breath as Ohio’s Lt. Col. John H. Glenn blasts off into orbit.
Burglars break into the Peoples Drug Store in Cornersburg and an Isaly Dairy Store at 1077 Wick Ave., taking safes containing about $340.
Norbert C. Rubin, international consultant from Cleveland, tells about 65 Youngstown district business leaders at the Youngstown Club that export business creates sales and jobs.
1937: Relief money left over from 1936 has spared Youngstown from the fate that some Ohio cities are suffering as a result of the stop-gap relief law passed by the Ohio Assembly.
Sharon Steel Corp., one of the world’s leading producers of stainless strip steel, will spend $400,000 to double the capacity of its stainless steel department.