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Today is Tuesday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2016. There are 319 days left in the year.

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2015: Egyptian warplanes strike Islamic State targets in Libya, hours after the extremist group releases a grisly video showing the beheading of Egyptian Coptic Christians it had held hostage for weeks.

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1991: The New Castle Area Transit Authority, crippled by rising fuel costs, will have to lay off 11 employees and increase the interval between pick-ups from a half-hour to one hour.

After a $1.6 million quarterly operating loss, the worst in the auto industry’s history, Moody’s Investors Service lowers General Motors Corp.’s credit rating from AA to A.

Dr. Victor A. Richley, retired dean of Youngstown State University’s College of Applied Science and Technology, will be the speaker at YSU’s 1991 Winter Commencement.

1976: Pennsylvania State Police arrest a Chicago man after he and an accomplice robbed an Ohio Turnpike service plaza and crashed through two Pennsylvania toll gates.

Anthony Julian, Youngs- town consumer-affairs agent, says the city received 276 complaints in January about products, services and advertisements in the Youngstown market.

In observance of the Bicentennial, all Struthers band and choir concerts will feature a giant 72-foot-by-48-foot flag sewed by students and volunteers on a special machine loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Y. McCleery.

1966: Lady Bird Johnson presents a trophy to Ed Moeller, chairman of Canfield’s clean-up committee, in ceremonies at the White House honoring Canfield as one of the nation’s cleaner towns.

A 17-year-old Kent State University freshman from Niles is arrested by Secret Service agents after telling his landlord that he wanted to kill President Johnson.

Mahoning County Engineer Sam Gould Jr. tells the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce that 75 percent of the nation’s highway fatalities are attributable to poor road design.

Five Youngstown University coeds – Cheryl Anzelmo, Anita Moliterno, Carole Bobanic, Cecily Moran and Donna Madasci – vie for Mardi Gras queen.

1941: A U.S. labor conciliator is instrumental in ending a strike by employees at the Brier Hill Works of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.

About 175 high-school students from five states take scholarship exams at Hiram College.

Youngstown is awarded the 1941 National Amateur Baseball Tournament, beating out Detroit largely on the basis of the success the city had in hosting the 1934 tourney.

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