Today is Friday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2015. There are 307 days left in the year.

February 27, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1801: The District of Columbia is placed under the jurisdiction of Congress.

1814:Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93, is first performed in Vienna.

1911: Inventor Charles F. Kettering demonstrates his electric automobile starter in Detroit by starting a Cadillac’s motor with just the press of a switch, instead of hand-cranking.

1922: The Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upholds the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of women to vote.

1933: Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, is gutted by fire. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming the Communists, uses the fire to justify suspending civil liberties.

1939: The Supreme Court, in National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp., effectively outlaws sit-down strikes.

Britain and France recognize the regime of Francisco Franco of Spain.

1943: During World War II, Norwegian commandos launch a raid to sabotage a German-operated heavy water plant in Norway.

The U.S. government begins circulating one-cent coins made of steel plated with zinc (the steel pennies proved unpopular, since they were easily mistaken for dimes).

1951: The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, is ratified.

1960: The U.S. Olympic hockey team defeats the Soviets, 3-2, at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, Calif. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)

1968: At the conclusion of a CBS News special report on the Vietnam War, Walter Cronkite delivers a commentary in which he says the conflict appears to be “mired in stalemate.”

1973: Members of the American Indian Movement occupy the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasted until May.)

1982: Wayne Williams is found guilty of murdering two of the 28 young blacks whose bodies were found in the Atlanta area over a 22-month period. (Williams, who was also blamed for 22 other deaths, has maintained his innocence.)

1991: During Operation Desert Storm, President George H. W. Bush declares that “Kuwait is liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated,” and announces that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight, Eastern time.

2005: The Iraqi government announces the capture of Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, Saddam Hussein’s half brother and former adviser. (Although sentenced to death, al-Hassan died of cancer in 2013.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Dr. James Rhonda, a professor of history at Youngstown State University for 21 years and a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his book, “Lewis and Clark Among the Indians,” is leaving YSU to join the faculty of the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma.

In what they say is an effort to limit “grandstanding,” Austintown Township trustees pull the plug on cable TV’s airing of the public-response portion of the trustees’ meetings.

A declining number of high school graduates in Ohio may force some public and private colleges in the state to be less selective in their admittance procedures. Ohio State University expects about 10 percent fewer than the 19,000 applications it received in 1989, but foresees no problem in assembling a freshman class of 6,300.

1975: John Nelson, a vice president of Commercial Shearing Inc. is elected president of the firm by directors in a realignment of management posts. Charles B. Cushwa Jr., who had been president and chairman of the board since 1951, remains chairman.

Ohio Edison Co. files an application with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to increase the price of electricity to industrial customers and to residential and commercial customers in rural areas and small communities under 1,000 population.

Common Pleas Judge Dominick Olivito issues a pre liminary injunction ordering Trumbull County Treasurer Carl N. Lupi to reinstate 19 employees discharged by Lupi.

1965: Top-seeded Boardman Spartans win a 97-47 victory over the Niles McKinley Red Dragons in the quarter-finals round of the Class AA Sectional Tournament at the Struthers Fieldhouse. In the second game, the Campbell Memorial team beat the Howland Tigers, 47-45, in a double overtime game.

WFMJ-TV’s newly installed 120-foot slot antenna, custom-built by RCA, will furnish a million watts of power, making the Youngstown station one of the most powerful in the nation. The tower and antenna rise 1,085 feet.

Mahoning County’s 2,618 retail business places marked up $33 million in sales in 1963, the U.S. Bureau of Census reports.

1940: Congressman Michael J. Kirwan tells about 150 members of the Youngstown Retail Grocers’ and Meat Dealers’ Association that more than $700,000 in new business would be brought to the city if Youngstown tried out the federal surplus commodities food stamp plan.

Five members of the Henry Higley family, including two small children, flee barefooted into the cold night when fire sweeps through their home at 1812 Erie St.

The new $60,000 home of the Free Krakusy Society at South Avenue and Dixon Street will be dedicated with a banquet March 31, with 500 people expected to attend.