YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2015. There are 327 days left in the year.

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1795: The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with states’ sovereign immunity, is ratified.

1857: A French court acquits author Gustave Flaubert of obscenity for his serialized novel “Madame Bovary.”

1914: Keystone Film Co. releases the silent short comedy “Kid Auto Races at Venice,” Charles Chaplin’s second film, and the first in which he plays the Little Tramp.

1936: President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes a flag for the office of the vice president.

1940: Walt Disney’s second animated feature, “Pinocchio,” premieres in New York.

1948: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Army chief of staff; he is succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.

1962: President John F. Kennedy imposes a full trade embargo on Cuba.

1964: The Beatles arrive at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to begin their first American tour.

1974: The island nation of Grenada wins independence from Britain.

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1990: The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District will spend between $9 million and $12 million on repairs to the Meander Dam and its spillway.

The Catholic Diocese of Youngstown reports a $496,595 deficit for the 1989 fiscal year on total operating income of $61 million.

A committee organized to oversee the financial matters of the Youngstown City School District recommends that one or two of the city’s five public high schools be closed.

1975: A cutback in natural gas to 24 industrial plants in East Ohio Gas Co.’s Youngstown division will have an impact on production. GF Business Equipment Inc. may cut back to a four-day work week.

The Urban Renewal Development Review Committee approves Youngstown State University’s plans for a $6 million office and classroom complex for the College of Arts and Sciences.

Ohio state Sen. M. Morris Jackson, D-Cleveland, and state Rep. Paul S. Wingard, R-Stow, introduce separate bills in the Ohio General Assembly to curb smoking in public places.

1965: Poland’s new Post Office at 25 Sheridan Road opens, with Richard Rudloff as superintendent.

Andrew J. Henderson, a one-time clerk at New Castle, Pa., receives appointment as general superintendent of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad.

A five-man engineering group will study the reasons for the leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy and will recommend action to avert its predicted toppling by the year 2000.

1940: William J. Hitchcock Jr. is elected to the board of trustees of the Friends of Youngstown College Library Association during a meeting at the Youngstown Club.

City officials and representatives of the leading gasoline distributors agree on regulations regarding the size and condition of trucks moving gasoline through the city. The move was taken to prevent an accident similar to one in Sharpsville, Pa., that caused $120,000 in damage.