Years Ago for Feb. 12
Today is Sunday, Feb. 12, the 43rd day of 2017. There are 322 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1809: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, is born in a log cabin in Hardin (now LaRue) County, Ky.
1554: Lady Jane Grey, who had claimed the throne of England for nine days, and her husband, Guildford Dudley, are beheaded after being condemned for high treason.
1818: Chile officially proclaims its independence, more than seven years
after initially renouncing Spanish rule.
1909: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded.
1914: Groundbreaking takes place for the
Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1915: The cornerstone is laid for the Lincoln Memorial.
1942: Painter Grant Wood, creator of “American Gothic,” dies in Iowa City, Iowa, a day before his 51st birthday.
1959: The redesigned Lincoln penny – with an image of the Lincoln Memorial replacing two ears of wheat on the reverse side – goes into circulation.
1963: A Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 720 breaks up during severe turbulence and crashes
into the Florida Everglades, killing all 43 people
aboard.
1973: Operation Homecoming begins as the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict takes place.
1988: Former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. ends his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, endorsing Kansas Sen. Bob Dole.
1999: The Senate votes to acquit President Bill Clinton of perjury and
obstruction of justice.
2007: A trench coat-clad teenager opens fire at Trolley Square, a Salt Lake City mall, killing five people and wounding four others before he is shot and killed by police.
Car bombs shatter Baghdad’s oldest and largest market, killing at least 78 people.
2012: State Gov. Henrique Capriles wins Venezuela’s first-ever opposition presidential primary by a wide margin.
Adele emerges as the top winner at the Grammy Awards, winning six trophies, including record and song of the year (for “Rolling in the Deep”) and album of the year (for “21”), in a ceremony shadowed by the death of Whitney Houston the day before.
Irish character actor
David Kelly (“Waking Ned Devine”) dies in Dublin at age 82.
2016: Pope Francis, while en route to Mexico,
embraces Patriarch Kirill during a stopover in Cuba in the first-ever meeting between a pontiff and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: Packard Electric says its employees and retirees in Warren seek medical services more often than GM employees elsewhere, contributing to a 12 percent increase in 1991, bringing the cost to more than $88 million.
Some 500 proponents and opponents of a federal prison in Columbiana County attend an informational meeting at the Columbiana County Career Center.
Trumbull County Sheriff’s deputies and Newton Township police believe Douglas E. Lash, 19, was shot and killed after he surprised a burglar at his father’s home at 3392 Carson Salt Springs Road.
1977: Republic Steel Corp. puts into operation its new $15 million high-speed continuous silicon annealing line in Warren.
Reflecting hard times in the steel industry, Lykes Corp., parent of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., reports 1976 consolidated net income of $19 million or $1.03 per common share.
Three new members are named to the board of trustees of the Youngstown Hospital Association: Jennings R. Lambeth, Atty. Clarence A. Covington Jr. and Robert E. Bulkley.
1967: Triplet girls born to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Poto of Masury celebrate their one-month birthday. Kerry Sue, Kendra
Ann and Kathy Lynn weigh a total of 20 pounds, go through 96 diapers in 48 hours and drink four quarts of milk a day.
Barge traffic on the U.S. inland waterway system showed a steady rise in traffic in 1966, which runs counter to arguments against a Lake Erie-Ohio River waterway proposed by Mahoning Valley Congressman Michael Kirwan.
After 56 days in the hospital, three major operations and 49 pints of blood, Tommy Gallo is at home in McDonald. He was injured in a sled-riding accident.
1942: Under a new state salary law, four Mahoning County Common Pleas judges – Erskine Maiden Jr., David G. Jenkins, John W. Ford and Harry P. Beckenbach – get pay increases of $13.70 a year, bringing their salaries to $7,167.50.
The hospital service of the Medical Service and Disaster Relief Division of the Mahoning County Civil Defense Council plans to put 1,200 beds in schools, the Westlake Community Settlement House and Buechner Hall for possible emergency use.
Atty. T. Lamar Jackson is recommended for the Republican position on the Mahoning County Board of Elections.