YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 2016. There are 310 days left in the year.

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1836: Inventor Samuel Colt patents his revolver.

1913: The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, is declared in effect by Secretary of State Philander Chase Knox.

1956: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev harshly criticizes the late Josef Stalin in a speech before a Communist Party congress in Moscow.

1964: Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) becomes world heavyweight boxing champion as he defeats Sonny Liston in Miami Beach.

1991: During the Persian Gulf War, 28 Americans are killed when an Iraqi Scud missile hits a U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

2011: Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly take the first significant action on their plan to strip collective-bargaining rights from most public workers, abruptly passing the measure in the small hours before sleep-deprived Democrats realized what was happening. (The vote sent the bill on to the Wisconsin Senate, from which minority Democrats had fled to Illinois to prevent a vote.)

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1991: Warren City Councilman Michael O’Brien says the city should create a shade-tree commission to oversee the planting of thousands of seedlings throughout the city.

A study of Mahoning County’s real-estate market shows property-value increases in the typical growth areas of Boardman, Canfield and Poland, while values held firm in the cities of Youngstown, Struthers and Campbell.

The Rev. Mark A Turner, pastor of Liberty Evangelical, a Southern Baptist Church, files suit against General Motors and a co-worker at the Lordstown plant, saying the company did not stop employees from harassing him about his race and religion.

1976: An $8 million village for the mentally disabled will be built on farmland in Austintown Township by the Ohio Department of Health and Mental Retardation. The 37 acres of the William Croft farm were chosen over more than a dozen locations in four counties.

Allegheny Airlines informs the city that it has asked the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to discontinue service to the Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Curtis McCullum, Youngstown labor leader, is indicted on a charge of intimidation of a public official. Youngstown school board member Joseph Rafidi said McCullum assaulted him during an argument over Rafidi’s vote for president of the board of education.

1966: The Ohio Department of Health says Youngstown hospitals are modern but crowded. Construction is underway at the North and South units of the YHA, St. Elizabeth and Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital.

St. Jude Mission in Columbiana is raised to parish status, and Monsignor Breen Malone is named pastor. The Rev. Thomas J. McCarthy will succeed Monsignor Malone as director of vocations for the diocese.

General Fireproofing Co. applies for a listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

Youngstown Transit Co. has its best year in more than a decade in 1965, earning $64,490.

1941: Mahoning County Sheriff Ralph Elser removes deputies from patrol at Lake Milton after being told guarding the dam against sabotage is the city of Youngstown’s responsibility.

Hugh Bonnell is named chairman of a drive to build a civic auditorium that would be home to the Youngstown Players.

Lawrence County commissioners have a hearing on construction of a new bridge over Neshannock Creek at South Mercer Street.

J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, notifies Youngstown Police Chief John Turnbull that the bullet that wounded Atty. Dominic Rendenell in his Youngstown home Jan. 23 was probably of a foreign make and was fired by a Colt pistol.