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Today is Thursday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2017. There are 325 days left in the year.

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1825: The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.

1870: The U.S. Weather Bureau is established.

1950: In a speech in Wheeling, W. Va., Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charges that the State Department is riddled with Communists.

1964: The Beatles make their first live American television appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” broadcast from New York by CBS.

1997: Best Products closes the last of its stores, a victim of the diminishing allure of the catalog-showroom concept of retailing.

2012: The Pentagon formally opens thousands of jobs to women in units that were closer to the front lines than ever before.

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1992: More than 40 volunteers are working at the headquarters of Jump Start America in the Covelli Building in Warren as part of the effort to buy American-made cars that was launched by Dr. William Lippy.

The Warren City School District is one of 35 Ohio districts under consideration as a pilot site in President George Bush’s national education strategy, America 2000.

Ray Olsen, health teacher, and Frank Styduhar, physical-education teacher, at Hermitage Middle School have launched a program to reduce high cholesterol among their students. Tests showed 31 percent of the school’s 231 students had cholesterol levels above the 170 mg reading considered safe for children in that age group.

1977: U. S. District Judge Thomas D. Lambros trims three years off the five-year federal prison sentence of Joseph “Joey” Naples Jr. for violating his probation by gambling.

Frank Leseganich easily wins a third term as director of District 26, United Steelworkers union.

Twenty graduates of the Hannah E. Mullins School of Practical Nursing in Salem receive their diplomas at the 36th annual commencement. They are Ruth Meyers, Maryann King, Tressa Stokes, Cheryl Shane, Jeannette Maurice, Barbara Lowman, Donna Sinn, Margaret Knight, Connie Brunner, Constance Kibler, Lisa Gyomber, Tricia McDonald, Deborah Brateck, Dorothy Bacon, Elizabeth McMahon, Berry Simmons, Robin Louder, Jill Waldron, Diane Smith and Marcia Kegelmyer.

1967: The week-old ordinance governing parking of cars on Youngstown streets during heavy snowstorms may be repealed before it is enforced after city council is told signs would cost $28,000 and annual upkeep would be $5,000.

Nine-month old Danny McNeal dies in his crib of smoke inhalation after fire damages the family home at 226 E. Ravenwood Ave.

Under legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, the Interior Department unveils plans for a $10 million National Aquarium, which would be the world’s largest.

Beaver Creek Park will be ready for horsemen this summer with designated bridle trails and a campsite.

1942: Congressman Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown and Ohio Congressman-at-large Stephen M. Young of Cleveland announce their opposition to a proposal by Congressman Earl Wilson of Indiana that would establish a curfew of 10 or 11 p.m. for girls working in Washington, D.C. Wilson says girls are keeping late hours and wasting time in the morning applying make-up after reporting for work.

Heavy rains and melting snow boost Lake Milton’s levels to 2 inches above the spillway, the first time in more than a year that the reservoir has been full.

Youngstown Fire Chief Michael Melillo wants 240 men to volunteer for the first unit of the city’s auxiliary fire department.