Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 2015. There are 309 days left in the year.

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1836: Inventor Samuel Colt patents his revolver.

1901: United States Steel Corp. is incorporated by J.P. Morgan.

1905: The Upton Sinclair novel “The Jungle” is first published in serial form by the Appeal to Reason newspaper.

1913: The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, is declared in effect by Secretary of State Philander Chase Knox.

1922: French serial killer Henri Landru, convicted of murdering 10 women and the son of one of them, is executed in Versailles.

1940: A National Hockey League game is televised for the first time by New York City station W2XBS as the New York Rangers defeat the Montreal Canadiens, 6-2, at Madison Square Garden.

1943: Allied troops reoccupy the Kasserine Pass after clashing with German troops during World War II.

1950:“Your Show of Shows,” starring Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris, debuts on NBC-TV.

1964: Eastern Airlines Flight 304, a DC-8, crashes shortly after taking off from New Orleans International Airport, killing all 58 on board.

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1990: The Rev. David Sherrard, who came from Detroit in 1989 as executive director of the Youngstown Rescue Mission, says he’s encountered politics, red tape and delays in Youngstown that he thought he had left behind in Detroit.

Jennie Marino is retiring after 27 years in the Niles tax office, where she has worked during the administration of seven mayors.

Enrollment in Youngs-town’s five public high schools has dropped 19.2 percent in the last decade, from 5,569 in 1980 to 4,499 in 1990.

1975: The Mahoning County Welfare Department, facing a large influx of applicants, is seeking state approval to rent an additional 2,500 square feet of space at 236 W. Federal St. from the Higbee Co.

A search is underway for John W. Brinton, 14, and Paul Parillo, 13, of New Castle, Pa., who disappeared in Neshannock Creek after their rubber raft overturned. A third boy, Jeffrey Beatrice, 13, swam to shore.

The Trumbull County Board of Elections passes a resolution proposing the transfer of Bloomfield-Mespo and Farmington school districts to the Bristol Local School District.

1965: Elmer Dunn of Calla Road, Canfield, principal of Covington School in Youngstown for 20 years, dies at his home of a heart ailment.

Cleveland police arrest a 23-year-old Boardman man on charges that he threatened passersby with a gun while sitting in a pickup truck at Ontario and St. Clair avenues downtown. Twelve firearms, including a Chinese-made AK-47 assault rifle, a 9-mm semiautomatic pistol, a 357-magnum pistol and a shotgun, were confiscated.

An Indiana truck driver and a New Middletown man who works at a North Lima truck stop are arrested by FBI agents while transferring hogs from the driver’s tractor-trailer to another truck at the truck stop.

1940: Frederick A. Douglas, editor emeritus of The Vindicator and, at 79, the dean of Youngstown newspapermen, dies of a heart attack at his home at 738 Bryson St.

Two Youngstown members of the International Order of Odd Fellows, Judge Harry C. Hoffman and Leland H. Blythe, will hold grand lodge official positions in the Ohio Odd Fellowship, the first time two Youngstowners will hold such official positions at the same time.

Marie Barrett, a junior at Youngstown College, is listed in the 1939-40 “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.” She was YC’s first Homecoming queen, is secretary of the Newman Club and society editor of the student newspaper, The Jambar.