YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2015. There are 324 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1763: Britain, Spain and France sign the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War in North America).

1840: Britain’s Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

1841: Upper Canada and Lower Canada are proclaimed united under an Act of Union passed by the British Parliament.

1933: The first singing telegram is introduced by the Postal Telegram Co. in New York.

1940: MGM releases the animated short “Puss Gets the Boot,” the debut of Tom and Jerry (although in this cartoon, the cat is called “Jasper” by its owner while the mouse was dubbed “Jinx” by creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera).

1949: Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman” opens at Broadway’s Morosco Theater with Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman.

1962: The Soviet Union exchanges captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolf Abel, a Soviet Spy held by the United States.

Republican George W. Romney announces his ultimately successful candidacy for governor of Michigan.

1967: The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, is ratified as Minnesota and Nevada adopt it.

1968: U.S. figure skater Peggy Fleming wins America’s only gold medal of the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France.

1981: Eight people are killed when a fire set by a busboy breaks out at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino.

1989: Ron Brown is elected the first black chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

1998: Dr. David Satcher is confirmed by the Senate to be surgeon general.

2005: Playwright Arthur Miller dies in Roxbury, Conn., at age 89 on the 56th anniversary of the Broadway opening of “Death of a Salesman.”

Britain’s Prince Charles announces he will marry his divorced lover, Camilla Parker Bowles, in April.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Youngstown Atty. Stuart J. Banks meets with officials of the Ohio Democratic Party to seek the party’s endorsement of his campaign for a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court.

Roger B. Smith, chairman of General Motors Corp., says the company will decide within 60 days whether to build a battery-powered car.

Mark Trestman, the offensive coordinator hand-picked by Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar, is out as Coach Bud Carson announces sweeping changes on his staff.

1975: Youngstown State University’s Penguins win their 17th game of the season with a thrilling overtime victory over Buffalo University, 100-98.

An agreement to reduce wages by $1 per hour and implement more efficient work rules to help stimulate slumping residential construction in the five-county area is announced by Operating Engineers Local 66 and the Builders Association of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania and the Home Builders Association of the Mahoning Valley.

All 18 employees who were fired by Trumbull County Treasurer Carl Lupi show up for work but are turned away by Lupi’s new chief deputy, R.L. Slimmer.

1965: Youngstown gets honorable mention in a national Clean Up-Fix Up-Paint Up competition for urban cleanliness. Cincinnati is ranked the cleanest U.S. city.

John H. Yerian is elected president of the Mahoning County Cerebral Palsy Chapter.

Gaylord Evans, who headed the Cornersburg Improvement Club and was a former Austintown Township trustee, dies in South Side Hospital.

1940: McDonald Mayor James Ague says all marble board, slot machines and other gambling devices have been removed from stores and business places and the sale of “bug” slips has been banned in the village.

The estate of Michael Shevetz, the boy killed in a hit-skip accident on Wilson Ave. on Christmas Day 1936, is awarded $7,500 in damages from the cities of Campbell and Struthers on the grounds that the municipalities failed to provide a sidewalk along the street.

“This Constitution of Ours,” a book by Judge Florence Allen, is being published by Putnam Sons, New York City. Judge Allen was the first woman to be elected to a state supreme court when she was elected to the Ohio Supreme Court in 1922. William Allen White says: “The times are crying for just the kind of interpretation of our Constitution, which Judge Allen has written.”