YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2017. There are 319 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1764: The site of present-day St. Louis is established by Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau.

1933: President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escapes an assassination attempt in Miami that mortally wounds Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak; gunman Giuseppe Zangara is executed more than four weeks later.

1952: A funeral takes place at Windsor Castle for Britain’s King George VI, who had died nine days earlier.

1967: The rock band Chicago is founded by Walter Parazaider, Terry Kath, Danny Seraphine, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow and Robert Lamm; the group originally called itself The Big Thing.

1992: A Milwaukee jury finds that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he killed and mutilated 15 men and boys. (The decision meant that Dahmer would receive a mandatory life sentence for each count; Dahmer was beaten to death in prison in 1994.)

2007: National Guardsmen in Humvees ferry food, fuel and baby supplies to hundreds of motorists stranded for nearly a day on a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 78 in eastern Pennsylvania because of a monster storm.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Actor Martin Sheen and 28 other people are acquitted of criminal trespassing during protests over the construction of a hazardous waste incinerator in East Liverpool by Waste Technologies Industries.

At age 65, the financially ailing Youngstown Society for the Blind announces that it will close its doors on Glenwood Avenue at the end of the month.

Warren police and dog wardens confiscate 20 dogs being kept by Atty. John Leopardi at the Warren Workhouse, an alternative sentencing site he operates at the former Willard School.

1977: The Youngstown Board of Health reaffirms its intention to poison pigeons in downtown Youngstown, an action that is expected to bring a legal challenge from Animal Charity of Ohio.

Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp lifts an eight-year ban on drilling for natural gas in Lake Erie, but Gov. James A Rhodes says Ohio’s ban would have to be lifted through action by the General Assembly.

Warren city officials file suit in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court seeking an order to force striking city firefighters back to work.

1967: Stephen Kerpsack, 63, who came to Youngstown City Hall to protest a zone change on Meridian Road, dies of a heart attack after walking up six flights of stairs. The elevators were out of order.

Donald McKay, president and chairman of the board of the Home Savings & Loan Co., will serve as campaign chairman of the United Appeal.

The Girard Board of Education unanimously approves salary increases for all school personnel ranging from $300 a year for those at the bottom of the salary scale to $100 for those at the top.

1942: Congressman Michael Kirwan believes the proposed Beaver-Mahoning Waterway can be built in time to play a tremendously important part in winning the war.

About 4,000 of the estimated 15,000 eligible Mahoning County men registered for military service on the first of a three-day registration period.

Joseph Berkowitz is named general chairman for the fourth annual concert to be given in Rayen School auditorium by the Jewish Choral Society.