YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Feb. 6, the 37th day of 2016. There are 329 days left in the year.

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1778: The United States wins official recognition from France with the signing of a Treaty of Alliance in Paris.

1788: Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1899: A peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the U.S. Senate.

1911: Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, is born in Tampico, Ill.

1933: The 20th Amendment to the Constitution, the so-called “lame duck” amendment, is proclaimed in effect by Secretary of State Henry Stimson.

1952: Britain’s King George VI dies; he is succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II.

1959: The United States successfully test-fires for the first time a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral.

1978: Muriel Humphrey takes the oath of office as a United States senator from Minnesota, filling the seat of her late husband, former Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

1991: Comedian and television performer Danny Thomas dies in Los Angeles at age 79.

1996: A Turkish-owned Boeing 757 jetliner crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from the Dominican Republic, killing 189 people, mostly German tourists.

2006: President George W. Bush submits a $2.77 trillion budget blueprint for fiscal 2007.

2011: Egypt’s vice president meets with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and other opposition groups and offers sweeping concessions, including granting press freedom and rolling back police powers in the government’s latest attempt to end two weeks of upheaval.

The Green Bay Packers win Super Bowl XLV, defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25.

2015: A message purportedly from the Islamic State group says an American hostage, 26-year-old aid worker Kayla Mueller, had been killed in a Jordanian airstrike in Syria. Jordan dismisses the claim as “criminal propaganda.” (Her death later was confirmed by U.S. officials.)

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1991: Drug deals, arson and revenge result in the killings of two friends within six hours on Youngstown’s South Side. Dead are William Holloway and Darrin Tutwiler, both 25.

Voters in eight communities in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties approve four school levies and reject four others in special elections.

Liberty schools are cracking down on absenteeism, especially at the high-school level, bringing complaints from some students but pleasing Principal Larry Prince, who says average daily attendance has increased from 90 percent to almost 95 percent in a year.

1976: An armed robber claiming to have only six months to live kills one patron at the Oriole Bar on Wilson Avenue, wounds another and abducts a third.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Clyde W. Osborne orders the Youngstown Board of Education to resolve a teacher’s grievance over a job transfer through binding arbitration.

Back pay in amounts ranging from $250 to $3,000 will be paid to 3,468 Youngstown district steelworkers under a consent decree signed by nine major steel companies and the USW over claims of years of discrimination against women, blacks and people with Spanish surnames.

1966: Things can get confusing sometimes with three judges named Henderson sitting on benches in the Youngstown area: Judge John F. Henderson of Lawrence County Common Pleas Court, Judge Charles P. Henderson of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court and Judge Bruce P. Henderson of Trumbull County Domestic Relations Court.

Three Poland Scouts, Terry Gordon, Henry Roble and Thomas J. Parsons, get their Eagle Scout Awards.

1941: “Gone With the Wind” is held over for a second week of its anniversary engagement at the Warner Theater in Downtown Youngstown.

A 20-acre site on the west side of Warren on Nevada Street is selected for construction of 200 U.S. Housing Authority houses.

The Mahoning County draft board prepares to call up 151 men to meet quotas for March and April.