YEARS AGO FOR FEB. 1

Today is Friday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2019. There are 333 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1790: The U.S. Supreme Court convenes for the first time in New York.

1862: “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” a poem by Julia Ward Howe, is published in the Atlantic Monthly.

1942: During World War II, the Voice of America broadcasts its first program to Europe.

1959: Men in Switzerland reject giving women the right to vote by a more than 2-1 referendum margin. (Swiss women gained the right to vote in 1971.)

1960: Four black college students begin a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they’d been refused service.

1968: During the Vietnam War, South Vietnam’s police chief executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in a scene captured by news photographers.

1982: “Late Night with David Letterman” premieres on NBC.

2003: The space shuttle Columbia breaks up during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members.

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1994: All three Austintown youths charged in the baseball-bat beating death of Rose Bertolini will be prosecuted as adults.

Janet Del Bene, Youngstown State University chemistry professor, receives a $1.2 million grant from the Ohio Super Computer Center to further her studies in hydrogen bonding. She’ll have access to a Cray Y MP8/864 supercomputer.

State Rep. Jo Ann Davidson of Reynoldsburg, R-24th, speaking at the Mahoning Valley McKinley Club’s 79th annual banquet in Niles, says she likes the Republican Party’s chances of taking control of the Ohio House in November’s elections.

1979: An agreement is reached between ICX and Soviet representatives for rights to build an Americanized version of the Soviet-designed YAK-40 jet transport at a plant at Youngstown Municipal Airport, says ICX Vice President Charles Collins.

Youngstown City Council calls for a Street Department shake-up after learning that the city ran out of slag and salt for ice control during a recent snowstorm.

More than 600 people jam the second annual Sport Benefit Banquet at Sandalini’s where Randy Gradishar of Champion and the Denver Broncos is honored as man of the year. Among those attending are Pittsburgh Pirates Manager Chuck Tanner and former YSU pitcher Dave Dravecky who is in the Pirates farm system; Ohio State University’s new coach Earle Bruce, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski and Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson.

1969: Youngstown issues a building permit for construction of a $280,000 A&P Supermarket at 880 E. Indianola Ave., site of Imperial Wholesalers.

Residents of a proposed Model Cities Neighborhood Improvement Program in McGuffey Heights demand that Youngstown Mayor Anthony Flask attend a future meeting.

John Lynch III, a city patrolman who was a star football player at Ursuline 15 years ago, breaks up an attempted holdup downtown and captures the suspect with a crushing flying tackle.

1944: Youngstown Councilman P. Joseph Burke proposes a $20 annual fee for cigarette machines in the city as a way of raising revenue and regulating the proliferation of the machines.

Pfc. Howard Price, 18-year-old Woodworth Marine who went into battle at Bougainville hoping to avenge the death of his brother, Richard Price Jr. in New Guinea, is killed by Japanese machine gun fire without getting to fire a shot at the enemy.

Jerry “Sledgehammer” Pascarella, 21, and eight other men are arrested when Sheriff Ralph Elser and deputies raid a gambling game at a coffee house on South Avenue.