YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2017. There are 321 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1542: The fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, is executed for adultery.

1861: Abraham Lincoln is officially declared winner of the 1860 presidential election as electors cast their ballots.

1920: The League of Nations recognizes the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland.

1935: A jury in Flemington, N.J., finds Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.)

1991: During Operation Desert Storm, allied warplanes destroy an underground shelter in Baghdad that has been identified as a military command center; Iraqi officials say 500 civilians were killed.

2007: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney officially enters the 2008 presidential race in Michigan, the place of his birth.

2012: President Barack Obama unveils a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs.

2016: Justice Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, is found dead at a private residence in the Big Bend area of West Texas; he was 79.

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1992: The push for Youngstown State University’s first doctoral program (in educational leadership) clears a major hurdle with the Ohio Board of Regents.

Despite a pledge by Columbiana Countians Against the Prison to keep up its protests against building a federal prison in the county, officials of the Federal Bureau of Prisons say they won’t be deterred.

Twenty-one parents complain at a Liberty Township Board of Education meeting about alleged verbal abuse of students by a fifth-grade science teacher with 20 years of experience.

1977: Plans for a second parking garage and a pedestrian bridge from the garage over Wick Avenue are presented to Youngstown State University trustees.

Miss Josephine Kyle of Loghurst Farm, Canfield, retired teacher and ardent conservationist, gives Mahoning County its first state park with the donation of the 53-acre Loghurst Farm to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

Gerald Parks leads Youngstown State University with 23 points in the Penguins’ 76-64 victory over Indian-Perdue of Indianapolis. It is YSU’s 16th win of the season.

1967: Seven members of the Colbert family in Campbell are burned or cut when gasoline vapor exploded while Orrin Colbert was trying to open a clogged kitchen drain.

Mrs. T.J. Dillon, who has helped care for the St. Rose Church altar linens for 50 years, is honored by the Girard Altar and Rosary Society.

Donald Keck of Sharon has a miscast penny struck with a nickel die that he received in some change in Pittsburgh.

The Ohev Tzedek Sisterhood announces its 32nd donor luncheon in the Dr. Sam Schwebel Social Hall. Mrs. Sanford Finer and Mrs. Marvin Shears are in charge of the program.

1942: Charging that many opponents of the Beaver-Mahoning waterway enjoy the advantages of federally funded water transportation, Carl Ullman, president of the Beaver-Mahoning-Shenango Rivers Improvement Association, reminds Congress that 300 organizations have already endorsed it.

About 2,000 books are gathered on the first day of the “Victory Book Campaign” to collect books for men in the armed services.

The tin shortage, which threatens tubes for toothpaste and shaving cream, will be eased by an announcement from Carnegie Institute of Technology that lead is a safe substitute for tin in the tubes.