YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2017. There are 327 days left in the year.

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1795: The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with states’ sovereign immunity, is ratified.

1817: America’s first public gas street lamp is lighted in Baltimore at Market and Lemon streets (now East Baltimore and Holliday streets).

1857: A French court acquits author Gustave Flaubert of obscenity for his serialized novel “Madame Bovary.”

1931: Aviator Amelia Earhart marries publisher George P. Putnam.

1962: President John F. Kennedy imposes a full trade embargo on Cuba.

1971: Women in Switzerland gain the right to vote through a national referendum 12 years after a previous attempt failed.

1984: Space shuttle Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart go on the first untethered spacewalk.

1992: European Community [today’s European Union] members sign the Maastricht Treaty, which leads to creation of the euro.

2012: In a setback for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum sweeps GOP caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado.

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1992: Eight candidates are semifinalists in the search to replace retiring Youngstown State University President Neil D. Humphrey: Ronald E. Beller, Leslie H. Cochran, Janet D. Greenwood, John B. Gruber, H. Ray Hoops, Philip W. Kendall, Charles Pierce Ruch and Charles W. Sorenson.

During a speech at the Cleveland Growth Association, President George Bush unveils his plan for health insurance, which would provide $100 billion in tax credits over five years to help the poor and middle class buy coverage.

A 22-year-old Warren man accused of shooting at a city policeman surrenders a day after he was added to Warren’s new “Most Wanted List.”

1977: Gov. James A. Rhodes asks President Jimmy Carter for a $90 million federal grant to help needy Ohioans to avert higher energy bills brought on by bitterly cold weather.

Mark Ambrose of Mineral Ridge, charged with the 1975 murder of Patrick M. DeMar and a fugitive since then, is arrested in Durango, Colo.

The Jewish Federation of Youngstown celebrates its 40th anniversary at Temple El Emeth, with Sidney Z. Vincent, executive director emeritus of the Cleveland Jewish Community Federation, speaking on how the Jewish spirit evolved through a period that saw the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel.

1967: The Rev. Oliver L. Anderson, pastor of Beulah Baptist Church, dies in a fire in his home at 30 N. Prospect St.

Boardman firemen answered 415 alarms with total damage of $181,425 in 1966.

Brookfield Township spends $500 to convert a section of the cemetery office into a chapel for funerals. Rental will be charged to families and funeral directors using it.

The Ohio Department of Public Works awards a contract for $144,913 to William A. Pesa & Sons for renovation of Woodside Receiving Hospital in Youngstown.

1942: With a sugar stamp rationing plan to begin in a few weeks, Price Administrator Leon Henderson announces teachers will be his agents in handling the application and distribution of sugar stamp books – one for every person.

Cheered by indications that a large volume of iron and steel scrap will be sold in Youngstown to supply war-rushed steel plants, crews of Youngstown street department workers canvassed six school districts.

New attorneys in Ohio will include four Youngstown district men. They are: Melvin Ogram, Charles Zieglar, James MacQueen and Albert Marowitz.