Thursday, February 16, 2017
Today is Thursday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2017. There are 318 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1862: The Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee ends as some 12,000 Confederate soldiers surrender.
1868: The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized in New York City.
1945: American troops landed on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines during World War II.
1959: Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba a month and a half after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.
1968: The nation’s first 911 emergency telephone system is inaugurated in Haleyville, Ala.
1987: Cleveland autoworker John Demjanjuk goes on trial in Jerusalem, accused of being “Ivan the Terrible,” a guard at the Treblinka Nazi concentration camp.
1996: Eleven people die in a fiery collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a Maryland commuter train in Silver Spring, Md.
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1992: Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini is training at the Southside Boxing Club for his comeback bout against Greg Haugen on April 3.
Vaughn Laughlin, director of the Ohio EPA’s Division of Solid Waste Management, says the state is trying to limit out-of-state shipments of solid waste, but adds that Mahoning County is an exception because it has the state’s third- largest landfill in Poland Township, which has guaranteed to accept all local waste for at least 30 years.
U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. of Poland, D-17th, calls on political and community leaders to develop a regional water authority, saying if regionalism worked for the airport, it should work for water supplies.
1977: Architects James Olsavsky and Thomas Ingeldue design a seal for the city of Niles that is fashioned of anodized aluminum and mounted near the State Street entrance of the new safety-court complex.
Orlando DiLullo, former head of the Mahoning-Ashtabula-Trumbull narcotics squad, is named to head Liberty Township’s police department. He will have the rank of captain and be paid $14,500 a year.
The Builders Association of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania and the labor organizations that represent construction workers oppose five of six alternatives suggested by the EPA to abate pollution that is washed into waterways from construction sites.
1967: Youngstown Municipal Airport records its first fatal air crash since opening in 1941 when a private plane crashes, killing George Lotz, 42, and Paul Bennett, 55, of Illinois.
Winds of hurricane force, heavy rain and lightning created havoc in the Youngstown area and throughout the state.
To increase efficiency and stop criticisms of “buck passing,” Mayor Anthony Flask proposes a plan to transfer Youngstown’s busing inspectors from the Board of Health to the Division of Public Works.
Former Councilman William Vaughn, who became Youngstown’s first black councilman 40 years ago, dies. He served three-consecutive terms.
1942: Professor O.L. Reid of Youngstown College asks the public’s support for a drive to raise $5,000 for the Youngstown College Library.
Traffic on Oak Hill Avenue is being detoured between Chalmers and Marion avenues while street-car rails are being removed for use as scrap.
Vindicator carrier salesmen have sold more than a half-million 10-cent defense stamps to their customers during the past six weeks – above the national average set for carriers by 762 newspapers.