YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Feb. 6, the 37th day of 2017. There are 328 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1788: Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1899: A peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the U.S. Senate.

1911: Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, is born in Tampico, Ill.

1922: Cardinal Archille Ratti is elected pope; he takes the name Pius XI.

1943: A Los Angeles jury acquits actor Errol Flynn of three counts of statutory rape.

1952: Britain’s King George VI, 56, dies at Sandringham House in Norfolk, England; he is succeeded as monarch by his 25-year-old elder daughter, who becomes Queen Elizabeth II.

1987: Wall Street Journal reporter Gerald Seib is released after being detained six days by Iran, accused of being a spy for Israel.

2012: The U.S. closes its embassy in Syria, and Britain recalls its ambassador to Damascus in a new Western push to get President Bashar Assad to leave power.

2016: Seven Republican hopefuls face off three days before the New Hampshire primary; Marco Rubio, a first-term senator on the rise in the presidential race, faces a barrage of attacks while Sen. Ted Cruz, fresh off his victory in the Iowa caucuses, also comes under withering criticism.

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1992: Mahoning County Treasurer George Mc- Kelvey and Prosecutor James Philomena say that the names of delinquent taxpayers will show up in prominent places, including billboards.

In the space of two weeks, Canfield geologist David Baker saves the lives of two people using the Heimlich maneuver when they were choking on food.

Craig Beach Mayor Julius J. Yuhasz Jr. complains that mules being used by Amish workers to harvest trees off Grandview Road escaped and had to be rounded up by police, an Ohio Department of Natural Resource officer and about 15 residents.

1977: Trumbull County Commissioner Walter Pestrak says a state law prohibiting smoking in public buildings should be enforced during public meetings of the board, which will force his two colleagues, smokers Lyle Williams and Tony Bernard, to kick the habit.

Ten Youngstown-area men are among 75 graduates of the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s 100th Academy Class. They are Daniel J. Bartholomew, Marvin J. Carroll, David G. Cope, William Costas, Eric M. Escola, Richard J. Keys, Dale L. LaRue, Thomas E. Martin, James P. Myers and Paul E. Newburn Jr.

Dan Bova is installed as president of the Home Builders Association of Mahoning Valley, succeeding Lynn Dieter.

1967: Atty. William Stringfellow, nationally known Episcopal layman and author, tells 400 people at Cardinal Mooney High School that “the cost to maintain white supremacy in America is so great that it endangers the basic freedom of every citizen, white or black.”

About 150 members of Centenary Methodist Church begin a stewardship campaign to raise $150,000 to build a 12-room educational center on the east side of the 100-year-old East Palestine Church.

More than 325 people attend a banquet in Anshe Emeth Temple climaxing the temple’s three-day celebration of completion of its $250,000 sanctuary renovation.

1942: When the annual Home Show opens at Stambaugh Auditorium on March 7, the theme will be defense housing and low-cost home construction.

More than $10,000 in gross receipts – a record total – is expected when a final report is made on Mahoning County’s sixth annual infantile paralysis fund campaign.

Youngstown and suburban post offices are ready to begin re-registering and issuing certificates of identification to all enemy aliens age 14 or older.