YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2015. There are 312 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1732: The first president of the United States, George Washington, is born in Westmoreland County in the Virginia Colony.

1862: Jefferson Davis, already the provisional president of the Confederacy, is inaugurated for a six-year term after his election in November 1861.

1865: Tennessee abolishes slavery.

1924: President Calvin Coolidge delivers the first radio broadcast from the White House as he addresses the country over 42 stations.

1935: It becomes illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House.

1959: The inaugural Daytona 500 race takes place; although Johnny Beauchamp is first declared the winner, the victory is later awarded to Lee Petty.

1965: A new, color videotape version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein TV musical “Cinderella,” starring Lesley Ann Warren in the title role and Stuart Damon as the Prince, first airs on CBS.

Former Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 82, dies.

1980: The“Miracle on Ice” takes place in Lake Placid, N.Y., as the United States Olympic hockey team upsets the Soviets, 4-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)

2005: A powerful earthquake strikes central Iran, killing more than 600 people.

A Virginia man is charged with plotting with al-Qaida to kill President George W. Bush. (Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was convicted on all counts in November 2005; he was sentenced to life in prison after a 30-year sentence was overturned.)

Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II would not attend the civil marriage ceremony of her son Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles — but that her absence should not be interpreted as a snub.

2010: Najibullah Zazi, accused of buying beauty supplies to make bombs for an attack on New York City subways, pleads guilty to conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country and providing material support for a terrorist organization.

2014: Retired Pope Benedict XVI joins Pope Francis in a ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica creating the cardinals who will elect their successor in an unprecedented blending of papacies past, present and future.

At the Sochi Olympics, Marit Bjoergen becomes the most decorated female Winter Olympian in history, winning her sixth career gold medal by leading a Norwegian sweep in the women’s 30-kilometer cross-country race.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Voters in Austintown are being asked to OK a 1.8-mill levy that would allow the hiring of the township’s first full-time firefighters and alleviate what fire Chief Andrew R. Frost Sr. calls a “critical manpower shortage” during daytime hours.

A public hearing in Salem on the recently imposed Columbia Gas rate increase attracts only one speaker, Jean Cline of Malvern, who specifically objected to Columbian’s original filing, which included the costs of Vice President Dan Quayle’s visit to Columbus to help promote a natural-gas powered bus.

Standard Slag Co. of Youngstown, which was bought by Lafarge Corp. of Reston, Va., reduces orce at a major plant by nearly two-thirds.

1975: General Motors will cut the price on nine compact and subcompact models, including the Pontiac Astre, but not the Lordstown-built Chevrolet Vega.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. is getting its huge Campbell Works back to normal operation, gradually returning about 5,800 workmen to their jobs, after members of USW Local 2163 unanimously approve an agreement to end a strike by 300 blooming mill employees. The company agreed to return 18 men to the jobs cut in a new incentive program pending a arbitration hearing.

The Most Rev. William Hughes, auxiliary bishop of the Youngstown Diocese, tells members of the Youngstown Kiwanis at their luncheon meeting that “Brotherhood Week is a time to pause and renew our commitment to the idea that every man is a brother under the fatherhood of God.”

1965: A three-alarm fire damages four businesses, including the Isaly Dairy, in the Tod Building on W. Federal Street. Total losses are estimated at $200,000.

Powers & Flaugher’s “Going Out of Business after 65 Years Sale” has $100 suits at $36.65 and $59.50 sport coats at $16.65.

1940: A state examiner’s report alleges that four Mahoning County justices of the peace who serve Boardman, Austintown and Jackson townships are handling their criminal cases “to collect costs to the advantage of the justices and constables.”

The Youngstown Federation of Women’s Clubs, representing 6,000 local women, sends a telegram to President Roosevelt endorsing the continuation of the work of Congressman Martin Dies committee on un-American activities.

Davis H. Morris of Cleveland, speaking at the 25th anniversary luncheon of the Youngstown Rotary Club, says extension of the Rotary spirit of understanding, friendship and unselfish service is “the only possible way to peace”