Years Ago

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

1861: Jefferson Davis is elected provisional president of the Confederate States of America at a congress in Montgomery, Ala.

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

1942: The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff has its first formal meeting to coordinate military strategy during World War II.

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

1964: The Beatles make their first live American TV appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” broadcast from New York on CBS.

The G.I. Joe action figure is introduced at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

The crew of Apollo 14 returns to Earth after man’s third landing on the moon.

2002: Britain’s Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, dies in London at age 71.

2004: President George W. Bush and Democratic front-runner John Kerry spar over the president’s economic leadership, while Kerry’s rivals seek to slow his brisk pace.

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1989: Youngstown Municipal Airport Manager Larry Diemand says he can halve the airport’s projected $200,000 year-end deficit.

The Ohio Turnpike Commission is planning an interchange at Ellsworth-Bailey Road to better serve General Motors’ Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac Division complex at Lordstown. State Rep. Michael G. Verich says the interchange would save GM about $400,000 a year in transportation costs.

Youngstown City Council adopts a law to regulate the operation of the city’s estimated 120 group homes for the mentally and physically disabled, nearly 21/2 years after the measure was first proposed. The law requires all group-home operators to be licensed and pass city fire, housing, health and food-service inspections.

1974: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., a subsidiary of Lykes-Youngstown Corp., reports income of $42 million on a historic high of sales that topped $1 billion.

Three new members are elected to the Youngstown Hospital Association board of trustees: Robert D. Rowland, president of the Dollar Savings & Trust Co.; Thomas J. Travers, vice president of Commercial Shearing Inc. and Dr. John J. Coffelt, president of Youngstown State University.

A Champion Township truck driver, Frank English, tells Trumbull County deputies that his hat was shot off while he was fixing two flat tires on his semi-trailer that had been damaged when he drove over a railroad rail thrown from an overpass on Rt. 422 near the Route 5 bypass.

1964: Warren City Councilman Ernest Breckenridge, the first Negro to bridge the racial gap in Trumbull County politics, says the most pressing problems facing his people are employment and housing, not school desegregation.

The Mahoning Valley Historical Society will open the Arms Museum at 648 Wick Ave. to the public for the first time on Washington’s Birthday, Feb. 22.

More than 900 people attend an open house at the new headquarters of District 26, United Steelworkers of America, in the Realty Building on Youngstown’s Central Square.

1939: David Endres, formerly assistant to the late Byron W. Stewart, is appointed general superintendent of the Youngstown Hospital Association, in charge of the North and South Side units, board President John Tod announces.

Excavation work begins on the first unit of Youngstown’s $3.5 million low-cost housing project at Griffith Street and W. Madison Avenue.

The third hit-skip victim in two days on Youngstown roads is seriously injured. Andy Sarey, 26, is in St. Elizabeth Hospital after being found lying in Jacobs Road near McGuffey Road.