YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2016. There are 322 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1542: The fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, is executed for adultery.

1766: English economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus is born in Surrey.

1861: Abraham Lincoln is declared winner of the 1860 presidential election as electors cast their ballots.

1914: The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, also known as ASCAP, is founded in New York.

1920: The League of Nations recognizes the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland.

1935: A jury in Flemington, N.J., finds Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann later was executed.)

1945: During World War II, Allied planes begin bombing the German city of Dresden. The Soviets capture Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans.

1960: France explodes its first atomic bomb in the Sahara Desert.

1975: A late-night arson set by a disgruntled custodian breaks out on the 11th floor of the north tower of New York’s World Trade Center. (The blaze spread to six floors but caused no direct casualties.)

1980: The 13th Winter Olympics opens in Lake Placid, N.Y.

1988: The 15th Winter Olympics opens in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

1991: During Operation Desert Storm, allied warplanes destroy an underground shelter in Baghdad that had been identified as a military command center; Iraqi officials said 500 civilians were killed.

2006: Auditors report that millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina disaster aid has been squandered, paying for such items as a $450 tattoo and $375-dollar-a-day beachfront condos.

2011: Egypt’s military leaders dissolve parliament, suspend the constitution and promise elections in moves cautiously welcomed by protesters who’d helped topple President Hosni Mubarak.

2015: Calling cyberspace the new “Wild West,” President Barack Obama tells the private sector during a White House cybersecurity summit at Stanford University that it needs to do more to stop cyberattacks aimed at the U.S. every day.

VINIDICATOR FILES

1991: The Ungaro administration will seek Youngstown City Council’s approval to issue $8.17 million in notes and bonds to finance the city’s share of two major highway projects and to buy East Side land for development of an industrial park.

The first conviction for manslaughter in connection with drunken driving under a new state law comes in a Trumbull County Common Pleas courtroom. Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Gysegem says the new law gives prosecutors two ways to get felony convictions in drunken-driving accidents that result in death.

An all-city production of “Annie” is canceled. Robert Vargo, Wilson School drama teacher, says English and music departments in other city high schools scheduled competing productions, making rehearsals impossible.

1976: Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter returns 20 employees fired for violating the state’s anti-strike Ferguson Law to their jobs, but upholds the firing of five other strikers, William Cupp, Carl Spence, Paul Balkan, Michael Addeo Jr. and Raymond G. Green.

The chief of security at Hills Department Store at Liberty Plaza is charged with stealing nine citizens-band radios.

Andrew May, 76, of 266 Tremble Ave., Campbell, is found beaten to death in the kitchen of his bungalow.

1966: The St. David’s Society will celebrate its 75th anniversary at its annual banquet at the Hotel Pick-Ohio.

Capt. John E. Eckhart of Columbana and Capt. Dominic Pillin of Poland receive the Col. L.R. Boals award at the annual dinner dance of the Mahoning Chapter, Reserve Officers Association.

The New Christy Minstrels are performing at Packard Music Hall in Warren, and the Mersey Men are at the Idora Park Ballroom.

1941: Capt. Charles Richards, chief of the Youngstown vice squad and an ace marksman, dies of a heart attack at age 53.

Niles Councilman Daniel Holmes says the city is a den of wide-open gambling, including numbers rackets, slot machines and marble boards.

Mrs. John Irwin, East Palestine librarian, stresses the need for a new library in a talk to 200 members of the Parent Teacher Association.