YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2017. There are 324 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1763: Britain, Spain and France sign the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War in North America).

1840: Britain’s Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

1936: Nazi Germany’s Reichstag passed a law investing the Gestapo secret police with absolute authority exempt from any legal review.

1949: Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman” opens on Broadway.

1959: A major tornado tears through the St. Louis area, killing 21 people and causing heavy damage.

1966: The Jacqueline Susann novel “Valley of the Dolls” is published.

1967: The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, is ratified.

1992: Boxer Mike Tyson is convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant. (Tyson served three years in prison.)

2005: Playwright Arthur Miller dies in Roxbury, Conn., at age 89 on the 56th anniversary of the Broadway opening of “Death of a Salesman.”

2007: Less than a month after launching his presidential bid online, Barack Obama announces his candidacy in person, telling thousands outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill.: “Let us transform this nation.”

2012: Gen. David Petraeus takes charge of U.S. forces in Iraq.

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1992: Carmen S. Vivolo, Niles parks and recreation director, says a public-private partnership is assembling a proposal to develop a park along Mosquito Creek near the intersection of Robbins and Vienna avenues.

Shelley Hamlin shoots a 6-under-par 66 to take home the winner’s share of $75,000 in the Phar-Mor $500,000 LPGA tournament at Inverrary in Florida.

Vitale Fireworks Manufacturing Co. of New Castle is awarded the contract to provide fireworks for the 100th anniversary of Conneaut Lake Park.

1977: Clifford E. Lowry, superintendent of the Columbiana County Home, submits to county commissioners a cost-cutting plan that includes employee cutbacks, elimination of free lunches for employees, reducing the thermostat and closing the second-floor men’s dormitory.

The William M. Cafaro Co. of Youngstown withdraws from participation in a $20 million Tower Plaza urban renewal project in downtown Sharon, Pa.

About 150 people attend a meeting of the Coalition Fighting High Utility Bills at St. Patrick Church where plans are made to take their grievances to Washington, D.C.

1967: Youngstown’s 1966 traffic-death rate was the lowest in the nation for its population class, with 13 traffic deaths for a death rate of 1.4 per 10,000 registered vehicles.

Belmont Avenue bridge will be closed for five months to undergo a $134,394 rehabilitation.

T. Bruce Carpenter, district manager of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., is elected president of the Greater Youngstown Safety Council.

1942: Two area sailors who will always “remember Pearl Harbor” are visiting their parents. They are William J. Wardle of Columbiana, who was severely burned Dec. 7, and Edward Martin of Youngstown.

A new defense organization know as “Grits” (Girl Reserves in Training) is announced by Mrs. Fred B. King Jr., chairman of Girl Reserves at YWCA. It will be an eight-week training course in child care.

Youngstown Council turns down a request from county commissioners to rezone commercial property at 1500 Glenwood Ave., the old Glenwood Home. Instead, they approve a proposal to turn it into a park known as Stambaugh Park.