YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2015. There are 325 days left in the year.

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1773: The ninth president of the United States, William Henry Harrison, is born in Charles City County, Va.

1825: The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received 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.

Daylight-saving “War Time” goes into effect in the United States, with clocks turned one hour forward.

1943: The World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ends with an Allied victory over Japanese forces.

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

1960: Adolph Coors Co. chairman Adolph Coors III, 44, is shot to death in suburban Denver during a botched kidnapping attempt. (The man who killed him, Joseph Corbett Jr., served 19 years in prison.)

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

1971: A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in California’s San Fernando Valley claims 65 lives.

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1990: Officials of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency visit the Carbon Limestone Landfill in Poland Township and say they will decide within two months the fate of the Browning-Ferris Industries operation there.

A West Palm Beach, Fla., management company makes a $4 million cash offer to buy the former Holiday Inn MetroPlex in Liberty. The 153-room hotel was built in 1986 and entered bankruptcy in 1989.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. criticizes the chairman of the House Aviation Subcommittee for stalling a bill that Traficant sponsored that would prohibit airlines from restricting the seating of blind passengers next to emergency exit doors. Traficant says there is no evidence that a blind person would be less capable than a sighted person to operate an emergency door if necessary.

1975: Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter is named a vice chairman of the Mayor’s Committee on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Third Ward Councilman Emanuel Catsoules, a Republican, takes out declarations of candidacy petition forms for both Youngstown council president and mayor.

Vernal G. Riffe Jr., speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, will speak at the third annual testimonial dinner of the Presidents Day Society. Dominic Rimedio, inspector of weights and measures at the Mahoning County auditor, will be the honoree.

1965: Boardman High’s Spartans move to sixth place in the Associated Press basketball rankings with a record of 15-1.

After a break of 11 days, negotiations resume in the 25-week long newspaper strike by the Youngstown News- paper Guild against The Vindicator.

1940: Youngstown firemen fight for more than eight hours to subdue a two-alarm blaze at the Alfred Hammar & Sons furniture store at 720 Market St. Damage is estimated at $38,000.

Dr. Robert G. Mossman, Youngstown health commissioner, says failure to recognize the importance of the catarrhal head cold and mild cases of influenza allowed the infections to reach an almost epidemic level. Some schools are being closed, and three local hospitals are being taxed to their limits.

Warren Service Director Raymond L. Schryver says bulbs are being removed from hundreds of city street lights until the city’s annual bill is cut from $36,000 to $26,000.