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February 4, 2017 at 12:00a.m.

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1861: Delegates from six southern states that had recently seceded from the Union meet in Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.

1945: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin begin a wartime conference at Yalta.

1974: Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, 19, is kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army.

1983: Pop singer-musician Karen Carpenter dies in Downey, Calif., at age 32.

1997: A civil jury in Santa Monica, Calif., finds O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

2004: The social networking website Facebook has its beginnings as Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launches “Thefacebook.”

2007: The Indianapolis Colts win Super Bowl XLI, beating the Chicago Bears 29-17.

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1992: LTV Corp. announces that it will sell its Dallas-based aerospace division to rivals Martin Marietta and Lockheed Corp.

Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro says the city will reject a fact-finder’s recommendation that would give city police the right to bid on shifts and days off by seniority and would allow the accumulation of up to 18 weeks of vacation.

Columbiana County commissioners and economic development officials say a proposed federal prison in Elkrun Township would provide a key to economic development.

1977: Two Trumbull County commissioners who have been feuding with Edward L. Kutevac, director of the Trumbull County Planning Commission, cut his salary from $24,000 a year to $19,000.

Youngstown Municipal Court collects $1.3 million in fines and court costs in 1976, an increase of $185,000 over the previous year, though the court handled 3,519 fewer cases.

Testimony ends in the Youngstown city schools segregation trial after 23 days, and U.S. District Judge Leroy J. Contie gives both sides until April 1 to file oral arguments.

1967: Former Youngstown clergyman Dr. John H. Burt, amid medieval pomp and pageantry and 20th century television cameras, is consecrated as bishop coadjutor of the Ohio Episcopal Church.

Trumbull County Commissioner Gary J. Thompson admits that he had set up an organization to which county employees were expected to contribute for political purposes, but he maintains that donations were voluntary, not mandatory.

Newton Falls councilman Roger Burns, chairman of the utilities committee, releases a preliminary report of a local telephone survey that lists many customers’ complaints, including toll charges for calls to Warren and the lack of a central office.

1942: Robert Devon,20, a radio man third class, is reported killed in unspecified naval action that followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The retail merchants board of Youngstown Chamber of Commerce will outline Gov. John Bricker’s program for conserving tires on delivery vehicles to Youngstown merchants at a meeting in Hotel Pick-Ohio.

Unless private enterprise undertakes to build homes for workers in critical defense areas such as Youngstown, the task will be taken over by public-housing agencies.