Today is Sunday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2016

Today is Sunday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2016. There are 321 days left in the year. This is Valentine’s Day.

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On this date in:

1849: President James K. Polk becomes the first U.S. chief executive to be photographed while in office as he posed for Matthew Brady in New York City.

1895: Oscar Wilde’s final play, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” opens in London.

1929: The “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” takes place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone’s gang are gunned down.

1962: First lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts a televised tour of the White House in a videotaped special that is broadcast on CBS and NBC.

1989: Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini asks Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of “The Satanic Verses,” a novel condemned as blasphemous.

2006: Atty. Harry Whittington, who was accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney, suffers a mild heart attack when a shotgun pellet travels to his heart, but he recovers.

2011: President Barack Obama unveils a $3.7 trillion budget plan that would freeze or reduce some safety-net programs for the nation’s poor but turn aside Republican demands for more drastic cuts to shrink the government.

2015: A Danish gunman attacks a free-speech seminar and a synagogue in Copenhagen, killing two people; the shooter was later slain by a special police team.

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1991: Edward J. DeBartolo, president of the San Francisco 49ers, announces that he has named Carmen Policy, his personal lawyer and adviser, president of the NFL team.

Ohio’s infant mortality rates have worsened, and Youngstown’s health commissioner says the implications are ominous if prenatal health programs fall victim to state budget cuts. In the Mahoning Valley, infant mortality is twice as high for black babies as for white ones.

Warren Mayor Daniel Sferra says Trumbull County commissioners have two days to agree to terms for a city sewer extension to the city’s west side or lose the city’s offer to provide sewer service to nearby Leavittsburg residents. Sferra says the city will pursue a different route to a state prison that wouldn’t require involvement by the commissioners.

1976: An estimated $5 million to $6 million all-sports complex for Youngstown State University is approved by the YSU trustees. The plans include a 13,000- to 15,000- seat stadium

The Youngstown Hospital Association’s viability as a health care institution stands stronger than ever, William B. Pollock II, outgoing president of YHA’s board, says. R. Thornton Beeghly is elected president of the board, and Mrs. John Weed Powers is re-elected president of the Women’s Board.

One man and 23 women receive diplomas from the Hannah E. Mullins School of Practical Nursing in Salem.

1966: An inch of rain disrupts traffic at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.

If parents don’t teach discipline at home, the state will teach it in prison, says the Rev. Carl Breitfeller, who was a prison chaplain before taking on the pastorate of St. Dominic Church in Youngstown.

Curbstone Coaches club inducts 10 new members into its Hall of Fame at a banquet attended by 400 at the Mural Room.

1941: A box containing 100 sticks of dynamite is found in an abandoned farmhouse on Youngstown-Poland Road. Mahoning County sheriff’s deputies are mystified as to the source of the explosives.

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Maurice Griffin, former pastor of St. Edward Church in Youngstown and a prominent figure in the founding of St. Elizabeth Hospital, is honored with a portrait hung at the American Hospital Association headquarters in Chicago.

Lorenzo Marchetta and Thomas L. White, both of Youngstown, get a patent on a new shoe-repairing machine.