YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2016. There are 320 days left in the year. This is Presidents Day.

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On this date in:

1764: The site of present-day St. Louis is established by Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau.

1879: President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.

1898: The U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously blows up in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members and bringing the United States closer to war with Spain.

1933: President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escapes an assassination attempt in Miami that mortally wounds Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak; gunman Giuseppe Zangara is executed more than four weeks later.

2002: A private funeral takes place at Windsor Castle for Britain’s Princess Margaret, who had died six days earlier at age 71.

2006: Vice President Dick Cheney accepts blame for accidentally shooting a hunting companion, calling it “one of the worst days of my life,” but he is defiantly unapologetic in a Fox News Channel interview about not publicly disclosing the incident until the next day.

2011: Protesters swarm Wisconsin’s capitol after Gov. Scott Walker proposed cutbacks in benefits and abolishing bargaining rights for most public employees.

2015: A video purporting to show the mass beheading of Egyptian Coptic Christian hostages is released by militants in Libya affiliated with the Islamic State group.

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1991: The Trumbull County grand jury adds aggravating charges to the murder charges against Kenneth Biros in the death of Tami Engstrom of Hubbard, meaning Biros would face the death penalty if convicted.

Copperweld Steel Co. of Warren will provide steel bars for use in making forged crankshafts for the Honda Accord engine manufactured at Honda’s Anna, Ohio, engine plant.

Wean Inc.’s closing of an Illinois plant requires a $1.5 million charge against fourth-quarter earnings and leaves Wean’s 410-employee plant in Austintown the only U.S. production plant for the Pittsburgh-based company.

1976: Youngstown State University is being hurt by a reduction in state funds of $1.8 million, president John F. Coffelt tells the board of trustees. Coffelt says the university had anticipated receiving $153 million from the state.

Trumbull County Commissioner Anthony Bernard says the county should hire a consultant to study possible solutions to the lack of parking near the county administration building and courthouse.

Rallying from a 30-35 halftime deficit and fired up by Jeff Covington’s string of seven points midway through the second half, the YSU Penguins rally to beat Ashland College, 60-55, at Beeghly Center.

1966: Mrs. Leopold Czihal of Belle Vista Avenue and her son, George Devos of Yugoslavia, are reunited in Youngstown 22 years after they were separated by the war in Europe.

Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong brings his all-star review to Stambaugh Auditroum. Seats are $2, $3 and $4.

Tonight’s TV fare: “The Red Skelton Hour,” “My Mother the Car,” “Dr. Kildare,” ‘‘Please Don’t East the Daisies,” “Petticoat Junction,” “Combat,” “F Troop,” “McHale’s Navy” and “Peyton Place.”

1941: Campfire Girls Patsy Lombard, Margaret Froble, Betty Ann Lindgren and Peggy Lou Egan take handmade Valentines to children at South Side Hospital.

The $400,000 Crab Creek WPA project is almost complete. It will eliminate sewer lines that ran directly into the creek, causing health and odor issues.

Sharon City Council names Thomas Bailey as mayor, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas J. Dougherty.