Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Feb. 8, the 39th day of 2014. There are 326 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1587: Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she is implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

1862: The Civil War Battle of Roanoke Island, N.C, ends in victory for Union forces led by Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.

1904: The Russo-Japanese War, a conflict over control of Manchuria and Korea, begins as Japanese forces attack Port Arthur.

1910: The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated.

1922: President Warren G. Harding has a radio installed in the White House.

1924: The first execution by gas in the United States takes place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City as Gee Jon, a Chinese immigrant convicted of murder, is put to death.

1942: During World War II, Japanese forces begin invading Singapore, which falls a week later.

1952: Queen Elizabeth II proclaims her accession to the British throne after the death of her father, King George VI.

1968: Three college students are killed in a confrontation with highway patrolmen in Orangeburg, S.C., during a civil rights protest against a whites-only bowling alley.

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1989: Maplewood Local School District voters in Trumbull County approve a 7-mill levy by a 154-vote margin during a special election, the third time the issue was placed before the voters.

A federal grand jury in Cleveland is reportedly looking into the operation of U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr.’s Youngstown district office and payments made to two part-time workers.

U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and renowned architect Michael Graves will be the featured speakers at the Ohio Museum Association’s annual conference that will be held in Youngstown in March.

1974: Poland High School mathematics teacher Howard B. Hutzen, 61, is killed when his car collides with a mail truck at Route 165 and Route 62.

Ohio becomes the 33rd state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment by a vote of 20-12 in the Senate, but not before Republican leaders warned that the amendment would do little more than give attorneys another basis on which to file suits.

A West Side doctor, Milan Halmos, administers emergency medical care while rescue workers struggle for more than an hour to free John Lepley, 22, from the wreckage of his car in I-680 near the Vestal Road footbridge.

1964: John Molson, 57, of 30 Montgomery St., is in fair condition in South side Hospital after he was run over by his own car that slipped out of gear after he parked it in his driveway.

Three Youngstown policemen are injured when their car was struck from behind while stopped at a traffic light on Midlothian Boulevard as they were driving to work. Patrolman John E. Leonard, Sgt. Donald Crater and Patrolman Chester Puskarcik were released after treatment at South Side Hospital.

Struthers Safety-Service Director Paul Van Kulick is seeking a meeting with officials of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. after 50 homes on the city’s north side are damaged by “black rain.” Reports of “black rain” in the city began in 1948 and the last recorded one was in 1962.

1939: Youngstown police are seeking two hit-skip drivers, one who killed an unidentified middle-age man in work clothes at McCartney and Struthers roads, and one who left 6-year-old Alva Baker lying in Oak Street after hitting her. She is in fair condition at St. Elizabeth Hospital.

William H. Muldoon, general manager of the West End Traction Co. and Shenango Valley Traction Co., says streetcar service between Youngstown, Hubbard and Sharon, and Sharon, Farrell, Wheatland and Sharpsville will soon be replaced with bus service.

Hollywood glamour girl Ann Sothern, appearing with Roger Pryor and his orchestra at the Palace Theater in Youngstown, take time to entertain the boys and girls at the Rotary Home for Convalescent Crippled Children.