YEARS AGO FOR FEB. 22

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2017. There are 312 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1732: The first president of the United States, George Washington, is born in Westmoreland County in the Virginia Colony.

1862: Jefferson Davis, already the provisional president of the Confederacy, is inaugurated for a six-year term.

1924: President Calvin Coolidge delivers the first radio broadcast from the White House as he addresses the country over 42 stations.

1935: It becomes illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House.

1959: The first Daytona 500 race takes place; although Johnny Beauchamp is initially declared the winner, the victory would be awarded later to Lee Petty.

1974: Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan).

1980: The “Miracle on Ice” takes place in Lake Placid, N.Y., as the United States Olympic hockey team upsets the Soviets, 4-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)

2012: Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum swap accusations about health care, spending earmarks and federal bailouts in the 20th debate of the roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.

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1992: Three buildings and land that constituted GF Corp.’s Youngstown holdings will go up for auction, 20 months after a previous auction failed to attract a single bidder.

Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro asks Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Charles Bannon to remove Atty. Edward Flask from the board of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District because Flask has moved from Youngstown to Poland.

The Rev. Martin Susko, chief canon lawyer for the six-county Youngstown Diocese for 24 years, will step down from that position to accept a pastorate.

1977: The death toll during the first weekend of Youngstown’s pigeon kill is at least 40. Robert Milich, city health commissioner, says many of the birds died instantly after gulping strychnine-laced corn.

Canfield physician Dr. Jack Schreiber and community service leader Doris Burdman Rinkov are selected to receive the George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge, Pa.

Gov. James A. Rhodes tells a cheering crowd of 300 that Washingtonville will have water after 14 days without it. The national guard will lay a 6-inch pipe to the Rhiel farm where water will be pumped from a well.

1967: Student absenteeism is higher than normal as classes are in session in Youngstown schools on Washington’s birthday, but teacher absenteeism is lower than normal. Classes are scheduled to make up for days lost due to a teachers strike.

A massive assault on Youngstown’s growing number of juvenile disturbances, which resulted in two deaths in three months, is promised at a rally attended by 200 people at Immaculate Conception Church.

1942: More than 100 people receive citizenship papers after final examinations are conducted by Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge J.H.C. Lyons.

The Beaver-Mahoning waterway’s role as an aid to national defense becomes apparent as Great Lakes grain and lake coal traffic will be shifted to railroads to make way for vastly expanded ore shipments.

Arthur Stone of Youngstown develops a “defense paper bailer” for household waste paper. It holds about 25 pounds of paper, compresses it and ties it with cord. A Niles firm may manufacture it.