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Today is Tuesday, Feb. 24, the 55th day of 2015. There are 310 days left in the year.

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1582: Pope Gregory XIII issues an edict outlining his calendar reforms. (The Gregorian Calendar is the calendar in general use today.)

1803: In its Marbury v. Madison decision, the Supreme Court establishes judicial review of the constitutionality of statutes.

1815: American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton, credited with building the first successful commercial steamboat, dies in New York at 49.

1864: The first Union prisoners arrive at the Confederates’ Andersonville prison camp in Georgia.

1868: The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Andrew Johnson following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson is later acquitted by the Senate.

1912: The American Jewish women’s organization Hadassah is founded in New York City.

1938: The first nylon bristle toothbrush, manufactured by DuPont under the name “Dr. West’s Miracle Toothbrush,” goes on sale.

1946: Argentinian men go to the polls to elect Juan D. Peron their president.

1955: The Cole Porter musical “Silk Stockings” opens at the Imperial Theater on Broadway.

1975: The Congressional Budget Office, charged with providing independent analyses of budgetary and economic issues, begins operating under its first director, Alice Rivlin.

1988: In a ruling that expands legal protections for parody and satire, the Supreme Court unanimously overturns a $150,000 award that the Rev. Jerry Falwell had won against Hustler magazine and publisher Larry Flynt.

1990: Magazine publisher Malcolm Forbes dies in Far Hills, N.J., at age 70.

2005: Pope John Paul II undergoes an operation to insert a tube in his throat to relieve breathing problems, hours after being rushed to the hospital for the second time in a month with flu-like symptoms.

2010: Testifying before Congress, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda apologizes personally and repeatedly to the United States and millions of American Toyota owners for safety lapses that had led to deaths and widespread recalls.

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1990: General Motors Corp. confirms that it is exploring the possibility of using a European style workweek of four 10-hour days.

A brawl involving players and a number of fans causes referees to call the Liberty-Canfield basketball game with one second remaining on the clock. Liberty gets the victory, 59-57.

Columbiana County Common Pleas Judge Douglas Jenkins blasts both the Beaver Local Board of Education and its teachers for refusing to end a strike that began Jan. 18. “You people want to play games, but the public is tired of it,” Jenkins says.

1975: The body of Arthur J. Marinelli, 56, a building contractor, is found in the basement of the old Szabo Funeral Home, 874 Mahoning Ave., where an arson fire was touched off.

An auto theft ring operating between Youngstown and two southern cities is broken by Youngstown police and the FBI, and vehicles valued at $42,000 are recovered.

The Rev. Eugene Lazar, retired pastor of Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox church, is honored at a testimonial dinner at St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.

1965: Jack C. Arnett, 29, of Youngstown is killed by a crane on his first day on the job, working on the Keystone Shortway near Fox Road in Hubbard.

Warren Harding defeats Cardinal Mooney, 75-64, and Austintown Fitch outplays Poland, 50-45. Roger Dyer collects 24 points for Poland.

Stan Laurel, who declined to appear in public after his actor partner, Oliver Hardy, died in 1957, dies of a heart attack in Santa Monica at the age of 74.

Negotiators for The Vindicator and the Youngstown Newspaper Guild meet again for discussions of the 27-week strike against the paper.

1940: Mrs. Frances P. Bolton is running for the unexpired term of her late husband, Chester C. Bolton, in Ohio’s 22nd Congressional District, and would become Ohio’s first congresswoman if she defeats Democrat Anthony A. Fleger. The district includes Lake and Geauga counties and part of Cuyahoga County.

In opening the third annual campaign for $5,000, William F. Maag Jr., president of the Friends of Youngstown College Library, says the library has been increased from 6,700 to 16,375 books in the first two years of a 10-year campaign.

Two bandits kidnap Don Beaumont, credit manager for Armour & Co., and make him open the safe at the plant on South Avenue, and they escape with $1,000.