YEARS AGO FOR FEB. 24
Today is Friday, Feb. 24, the 55th day of 2017. There are 310 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1582: Pope Gregory XIII issues an edict outlining his calendar reforms. (The Gregorian Calendar is the calendar in general use today.)
1868: The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Andrew Johnson after his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson is later acquitted by the Senate.
1920: The German Workers Party, which later would become the Nazi Party, meets in Munich to adopt its platform.
1938: The first nylon bristle toothbrush, manufactured by DuPont under the name “Dr. West’s Miracle Toothbrush,” goes on sale.
1983: A congressional commission releases a report condemning the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II as a “grave injustice.”
1996: Cuba downs two small American planes operated by the group Brothers to the Rescue that it claims were violating Cuban airspace; all four pilots were killed.
2012:Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Tunisia for a conference on Syria, calls Russia and China “despicable” for opposing U.N. action aimed at stopping the bloodshed caused by the Damascus regime’s crackdown on an anti-government uprising.
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: Austintown and Boardman township trustees say Ohio’s urban townships should receive a larger share of the state’s local government funds.
Youngstown has three gunshot homicides over the weekend, including that of John J. Kovachik. 35, an Independent Taxi driver. Also dead are Donald L. Drake Jr., 22, and Donna Robinson, 23.
Liberty Police Sgt. James Cerenelli is also a song writer and four-time winner of the Nashville International Music City Festival awards.
1977: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the Environmental Protection Agency’s policy setting water-quality standards, but the suit is not expected to alter the government’s year-old relaxation of deadlines Mahoning Valley industries must meet in purifying the Mahoning River.
The city of Sharon receives two state grants totaling $140,000 that will be used for recreational improvements: a 6.3-acre park on Clark Street and a Bicentennial Park.
Liberty Township trustees agree to a six-month option on 16 acres of land they hope to use for a $1.65 million township complex on state Route 305.
1967: The body of a former Salem minister, the Rev. Skilman E. Myers, 66, was disinterred from a New Jersey grave where he was buried after being shot while walking down a Trenton Street in November. The body had no identification and was erroneously claimed by the family of a missing man who was later found to be alive.
Youngstown City Council votes 7-0 to outlaw topless waitresses or dancers in the city.
The New Waterford Afternoon Country Club observes its 50th anniversary with a dinner in the Buckeye Room with 16 members present. The oldest attending were Mrs. Frank Bye, Mrs. Ada Justison and Mrs. Carrie Felger.
1942: Youngstown City Council will suspend its rules to put up for immediate passage an ordinance banning all marble boards and other gambling devices.
Mrs. Frank Moury will read a paper on a tour of southern states at the Mahoning Garden Club’s March meeting.
More than 10,000 people are being trained in first aid by the Mahoning Red Cross