YEARS AGO ON FEB. 27

Today is Monday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2017. There are 307 days left in the year.

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1911: Inventor Charles F. Kettering demonstrates his electric automobile starter in Detroit by starting a Cadillac’s motor with just the press of a switch, instead of hand-cranking.

1922: The Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upholds the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of women to vote.

1939: The Supreme Court, in National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp., effectively outlaws sit-down strikes.

1951: The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, is ratified.

1991: Operation Desert Storm ends as President George H.W. Bush declares that “Kuwait is liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated.”

2007: The Dow Jones industrial average drops 416.02 points to end the day at 12,216.24, the worst drop since Sept. 11, 2001.

2016: Hillary Clinton overwhelms Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina primary.

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1992: Jerry Schwelling, owner and manager of Warren-Nissan-Subaru says he believes hammer bashing of 16 cars on his lot could be linked to a “Buy American” furor spreading across the country.

Joseph Horne Co. sells five Ohio department stores to Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. and the Dillard Department Store Co., including the Horne’s store at Southern Park Mall.

More than 1.5 million Ohioans don’t have access to basic health services, and the problem is most extreme in the state’s southern tip, according to a study by the National Association of Community Health Centers.

1977: Coffee is becoming a status drink in Youngstown as the price of a pound of coffee in local supermarkets averages $2.80. It’s expected to top $3 in a month.

Youngstown City Council, under the gun to approve the Community Development Agency’s $4.3 million budget for 1977-78, gets bogged down in disagreements over whether to fund a home-insulation program, housing demolition, home repair or a South Side sewer project.

The Youngstown-Warren Metropolitan District showed a population increase of 7,000 between 1970 and 1973. Columbus increased by 97,000, while Cleveland lost 58,000.

1967: At the 76th annual banquet of the St. David’s Society at Foster Memorial Presbyterian Church, a $1,000 check is presented to R.C. Carroll, British consul in Cleveland, for the families of children killed in a slide of waste material at Aberfan, Wales.

A Steel Street youth, missing for nearly a week after skipping school to protest attendance on Washington’s birthday, turns up in Claremont, Calif. His parents wired $150 for a plane ticket home.

Burglars break into the new Car Stereo Center on Belmont Avenue and steal $30,000 worth of automobile stereo tape players and stereo tape cartridges. The store had been open only a week.

1942: Unless landlords in this area cooperate completely with the Greater Youngstown Fair Rent Committee on a voluntary basis, Youngstown and its suburbs may be designated as a defense rental area, and rents will be frozen.

Youngstown registers its 10th traffic fatality of the year with the death of Mrs. Jack Laver, 42, who was the passenger in a car that collided with another at Shirley Road and Florida Avenue.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. is being represented by three officials at the War Labor Board’s hearing in Washington in which the Steel Workers Organizing Committee is pressing for a union shop contract and a $1-a-day wage increase.