YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2016. There are 334 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1865: Abolitionist John S. Rock becomes the first black lawyer admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.

1960: Four black college students begin a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they’d been refused service.

1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini receives a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ends nearly 15 years of exile.

1988: Actress Heather O’Rourke, co-star of the 1982 movie “Poltergeist,” dies in San Diego at age 12.

2003: The space shuttle Columbia breaks up during re-entry, killing all seven crew members.

2006: In his first case on the Supreme Court, new Justice Samuel Alito splits with the court’s conservatives, refusing to let Missouri execute a death-row inmate contesting lethal injection.

2015: An interception at the goal line by rookie Malcom Butler preserves a 28-to-24 win by the New England Patriots over the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl.

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1991: Lance Cpl. James H. Lumpkins, 22, of New Richmond, Ohio, is the state’s first U.S. soldier killed in battle in the Persian Gulf ground war.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Elwyn Jenkins rules that former Youngstown Municipal Court Bailiff Thomas DiBernardi does not have to reimburse the city $13,125 for a state audit of court records.

After more than 14 years with the Warren Chamber of Commerce, Richard L. Haines, 60, resigns from the organization.

1976: Ohio Bell Telephone Co. is spending$1.2 million to drill a tunnel under the Mahoning River and four sets of railroad tracks to replace lines and cables that run along the Market Street Bridge.

January’s repeated freeze-thaw cycles, aggravated by frequent snow, sleet and rain, cause state and county roads and city streets to develop chuckholes earlier than usual.

The FBI joins the United Auto Workers Union in a probe of Local 1112 members suspected of collecting pay from both the General Motors Assembly Division at Lordstown and from the union while working on special assignment for the union.

1966: Youngstown’s Elizabeth “Biff” Hartman receives a “Star of Tomorrow” Golden Globe Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Mahoning, Trumbull, Ashtabula and Columbiana counties are slated to receive $100 million in state highway funds over the next four years.

Marve Minneman Jr.’s Chevyland has its grand opening on Mahoning Avenue in Austintown. (The auto dealership is now Greenwood Chevrolet.)

1941: The Youngstown Ministerial Association honors the Rev. Leonard W.S. Stryker, who retires as pastor of St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Niles and Warren are listed among 50 cities suffering from acute housing shortages by Architectural Forum magazine.

The President’s Ball, which raises funds to fight infantile paralysis, draws 4,500 people to Stambaugh Auditorium for a performance of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.”