YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Ash Wednesday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2016. There are 325 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1763: Britain, Spain and France sign the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War in North America).

1840: Britain’s Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

1936: Nazi Germany’s Reichstag passes a law investing the Gestapo secret police with absolute authority exempt from any legal review.

1949: Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman” opens at Broadway’s Morosco Theater with Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman.

1959: A major tornado tears through the St. Louis area, killing 21 people and causing heavy damage.

1962: The Soviet Union exchanges captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.

Republican George W. Romney announces his ultimately successful candidacy for governor of Michigan.

1966: The Jacqueline Susann novel “Valley of the Dolls” is published by Bernard Geis Associates.

1967: The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, is ratified as Minnesota and Nevada adopted it.

1968: U.S. figure skater Peggy Fleming wins America’s only gold medal of the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France.

1981: Eight people are killed when a fire set by a busboy broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino.

1996: World chess champion Garry Kasparov loses the first game of a match in Philadelphia against an IBM computer dubbed “Deep Blue.” (Kasparov ended up winning the match, 4 games to 2; he was defeated by Deep Blue in a rematch the next year.)

1998: Dr. David Satcher is confirmed by the Senate to be surgeon general.

2005: Playwright Arthur Miller dies in Roxbury, Conn., at age 89 on the 56th anniversary of the Broadway opening of “Death of a Salesman.”

2006: Former federal disaster chief Michael Brown tells a Senate committee he had alerted the White House to how bad things were in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and agreed with senators who said he’d been made a scapegoat for government failures.

The Winter Olympics open in Turin, Italy, with cross-country skier and gold medalist Stefania Belmondo lighting the caldron.

Dr. Norman Shumway, who performed the first successful U.S. heart transplant, dies in Palo Alto, Calif., at age 83.

2011: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refuses to step down or leave the country and instead hands his powers to his vice president, stunning protesters in central Cairo who wave their shoes in contempt and shout, “Leave, leave, leave.” (Mubarak resigned the next day.)

2015: The parents of Kayla Jean Mueller and U.S. officials confirm the death of the 26-year-old aid worker who had been held captive by the Islamic State group (IS said Mueller had been killed in a Jordanian airstrike).

NBC announces it is suspending Brian Williams as “Nightly News” anchor and managing editor for six months without pay for misleading the public about his experiences covering the Iraq War. Also, Jon Stewart announces he will step down as host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central later in the year.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro says the city is no more inclined to remove a 40 percent surcharge from the bills of 24,990 suburban water customers than it would be to simply give its water away.

U.S. Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, a former Marine, introduces legislation designed to assist active- duty military and reservists and their families in dealing with economic inequities that occur during a war.

Advertisement: Handheld portable cellular telephone, $399, including A/C adapter and charging stand. A $584 value.

1976: A deficit of $600,000 in Warren’s proposed 1976 budget will require the layoff of 58 city employees by the end of the month, says James Isom, chairman of Warren’s City Council Finance Committee.

An eight-member safety committee is named by the Western Reserve Transit Authority to study the WRTA’s student-transportation service after a 7-year-old Covington School student was dragged to his death by a bus that dropped him off near his home.

Mahoning County commissioners are poised to reject the only bid received for purchase of the Tuberculosis Sanitorium and its 17 acres: $12,780 submitted by Centofanti Material and Trucking Co.

1966: Six offices open in Youngstown to locate people who are eligible for Medicare.

Villa Maria High School has an open house, showing off its unique audio-visual resource room.

First Ward Councilman John Franken says he fully backs city police in their crackdown on illegal parking around Youngstown University, including the towing of cars with unpaid parking tickets.

1941: William Dornan Jr. is the only Mahoning County resident to pass the January bar examination.

The Youngstown Players open a drive to construct a civic auditorium with perhaps 350 to 400 seats.

Teddy Joyce, a Youngstowner who became one of England’s leading band directors and dancers, dies in Scotland of spinal fever. He was 36.