YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 24, the 55th day of 2016. There are 311 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1582: Pope Gregory XIII issues an edict outlining his calendar reforms. (The Gregorian Calendar is the calendar in general use today.)

1803: In its Marbury v. Madison decision, the Supreme Court establishes judicial review of the constitutionality of statutes.

1868: The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Andrew Johnson after his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson later was acquitted by the Senate.

1912: The American Jewish women’s organization Hadassah is founded in New York City.

1920: The German Workers Party, which later would become the Nazi Party, meets in Munich to adopt its platform.

1938: The first nylon bristle toothbrush, manufactured by DuPont under the name “Dr. West’s Miracle Toothbrush,” goes on sale.

1946: Argentinian men go to the polls to elect Juan D. Peron as their president.

1955: The Cole Porter musical “Silk Stockings” opens at the Imperial Theater on Broadway.

1966: Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana, is overthrown in a military coup while visiting Beijing; he was replaced by Joseph Arthur Ankrah.

1975: The Congressional Budget Office, charged with providing independent analyses of budgetary and economic issues, begins operating under its first director, Alice Rivlin.

1986: The Supreme Court strikes down, 6-3, an Indianapolis ordinance that would have allowed women injured by someone who had seen or read pornographic material to sue the maker or seller of that material.

1988: In a ruling that expands legal protections for parody and satire, the Supreme Court unanimously overturns a $150,000 award that the Rev. Jerry Falwell had won against Hustler magazine and its publisher, Larry Flynt.

1996: Cuba downs two small American planes operated by the group Brothers to the Rescue that it claims was violating Cuban airspace; all four pilots were killed.

2006: Suicide bombers attempt to drive explosive-packed cars into the world’s largest oil- processing facility in Saudi Arabia, but are foiled by guards who open fire, detonating both vehicles; al-Qaida claims responsibility.

Death claims actors Don Knotts in Los Angeles and Dennis Weaver in Ridgway, Colorado; both were 81.

2011: Discovery, the world’s most-traveled spaceship, thunders into orbit for the final time, heading toward the International Space Station on a journey marking the beginning of the end of the shuttle era.

2015: President Barack Obama, defying a Republican-led Congress, rejects a bill to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The Justice Department announces that George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood-watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin in a 2012 confrontation, will not face federal charges.

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1991: H. Alexander Pendleton, a Leadership Youngstown graduate and founding member of Leadership Warren, will receive the Distinguished Leadership Award from the National Association for Community Leadership.

Months after its start, a ride-sharing program in the Mahoning Valley is quietly seeking commuters tired of high gasoline and parking prices.

A study commissioned by Canfield City Council recommends that a new Canfield City Hall be built at a cost of $1 million.

1976: Coach Dom Rosselli, who has been guiding Youngstown State basketball players for 32 years, joins a select class of coaches, registering his 500th victory when the Penguins down Northern Kentucky State, 85-70.

Two ministers, an eye doctor, a dentist, a lawyer, a detective and a former city councilman are among city residents seeking to fill the unexpired term on the Youngstown Board of Education of Louis J. Marciella, who died Feb. 4.

About 600 production and maintenance workers strike General Electric’s Youngstown Lamp Works in a dispute over the company’s claim of a right to reassign workers from one job to another.

1966: Youngstown City Council amends the city’s salary ordinance to allow the hiring of 12 additional policemen.

Dr. Paxton Jones is elected president of the medical staff of the Youngstown Hospital Association.

Harold A. Stagner, assistant director of the National Park Service, views area sites that played a role in the life of William Holmes McGuffey and suggests some sort of memorial is in order.

1941: A survey of 1940 bills paid by the Youngstown Police Department shows that the city paid between 20 and 40 percent more than was necessary for auto repairs because the cars were given to a middleman, who passed the work along to another company.

Dr. Louis H. Evans, a famous Pittsburgh minister, tells 1,500 people attending services at Trinity Methodist Church that “Jesus has unhorsed every dictator who has stood against him,” and predicts that Hitler will be no exception.

Trumbull County Auditor David Wick says the names of property owners who are delinquent in their taxes will be published, the first time since 1929 that publication will be used as a method of collecting delinquencies.