YEARS AGO FOR FEB. 3

Today is Sunday, Feb. 3, the 34th day of 2019. There are 331 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1690: The first paper money in America is issued by the Massachusetts Bay Colony to finance a military expedition to Canada.

1811: American newspaper editor Horace Greeley is born in Amherst, N.H.

1913: The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for a federal income tax, is ratified.

1917: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany, the same day an American cargo ship, the SS Housatonic, is sunk by a U-boat off Britain after the crew was allowed to board lifeboats.

1930: The chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft, resigns for health reasons. (He died just over a month later.)

1943: During World War II, the U.S. transport ship SS Dorchester, which was carrying troops to Greenland, sinks after being hit by a German torpedo in the Labrador Sea; of the more than 900 men aboard, only some 230 survive.

1959: An American Airlines Lockheed Electra crashes into New York’s East River, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.

1959: Rock ’n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson die in a small plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

1966: The Soviet probe Luna 9 becomes the first manmade object to make a soft landing on the moon.

1988: The U.S. House of Representatives hands President Ronald Reagan a major defeat, rejecting his request for $36.2 million in new aid to the Nicaraguan Contras by a vote of 219-211.

1994: The space shuttle Discovery lifts off, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a U.S. spacecraft.

1995: Discovery blasts off with a woman, Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, in the pilot’s seat for the first time in NASA history.

1998: Texas executes Karla Faye Tucker, 38, for the pickax killings of two people in 1983; she becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.

2009: Eric Holder becomes the first black U.S. attorney general as he is sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden.

2014: U.S. stocks tumble, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 320 points after reports of sluggish U.S growth added to investor worries about the global economy.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Two Youngstown State University trustees, Elizabeth DeLuca and Bruce Beeghly, say YSU Trustee Martin J. O’Connell should resign if he pursues the $1.25 million lawsuit O’Connell filed against the university over a traffic accident. The trustees spoke out after the Academic Senate failed to pass a resolution calling for O’Connell’s resignation.

While Youngstown officials rejoice over the state’s announcement that it will build a super-max prison in Youngstown, some East Siders say the prison will reduce their property values and their quality of life.

Developers plan a 194-home project near County Line Road in Columbiana designed to look like colonial era housing. Jamestown Trace is planned by village businessmen P. Earl Corey and Wayne Sitler.

1979: Statistics released by Youngstown Mayor J. Phillip Richley show that 40 of 43 arson arrests made in 1978 were made after creation in May of an Arson Task Force, a select squad of detectives and firefighters.

Sharon Steel Corp., one of the nation’s most prosperous mid-sized steel producers, will invest $14.5 million in six additional soaking pits at its 44-inch mill.

The frozen body of Victoria Kupec, 69, is found in her unheated cottage at 313 NE River Road in Lake Milton, and the bodies of two reclusive sisters, Helen Misinaj, 61, and Josephine, 59, are found at 56 Frank Ave., Struthers, after neighbors investigated uncollected mail.

1969: Three young men and three teenage girls are arrested after a $900 strong-arm robbery of an attendant at Gastown Service Station on N. Park Ave. Patrolman Thomas Stewart spotted a car matching the description of the getaway car at another Gastown station and called for backup.

About 850 employees of five Youngstown aluminum-working companies are idled by a strike. Companies affected are Benada Aluminum, Saramar Aluminum, Superior Industries, Aerolite Extrusion and General Extrusions.

A bandit disconnected spark plug wires in the car of an East Side market owner and then robbed the merchant, Al Solomon, and an employee when they got in the car and tried to start it.

1944: The Ohio pastors’ convention meeting in Columbus denounces games of chance conducted in the name of charity as “training schools whereby adults as well as young people are first induced to risk money for the sake of unearned gain.”

The Buick Youngstown Co. leases the building at 1421 W. Federal St., site of the Valley Arena ice-skating rink, and will install machinery to make urgent materials for the Army ordnance department. About 200 men will be employed.

Neighbors notice water running in a steady stream from under the front door of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Burns on Stanton Avenue. The family was in California, and Boardman firemen had to break into the house where they found the first floor flooded and 3 feet of water in the basement from a burst bathroom pipe.