YEARS AGO FOR FEB. 5

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2019. There are 329 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1917: Congress passes, over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, an act severely curtailing Asian immigration.

1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes increasing the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices; the proposal, which would fail in Congress, drew accusations that Roosevelt was attempting to “pack” the nation’s highest court.

1958: Gamal Abdel Nasser is formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic (a union of Egypt and Syria that lasted until 1961).

1971: Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell step onto the surface of the moon in the first of two lunar excursions.

1989: The Soviet Union announces that all but a small rear-guard contingent of its troops has left Afghanistan.

1993: President Bill Clinton signs the Family and Medical Leave Act, granting workers up to 12 weeks unpaid leave for family emergencies.

1999: Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is sentenced in Rockville, Md., to a year in jail for assaulting two motorists after a traffic accident.

2018: Stocks take their worst loss in 61/2 years, with the Dow Jones industrial average plunging more than 1,100 points.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: About 30 members of the Youngstown Arab community show up at the arraignment of Mark A. Brown, charged with two counts of aggravated murder in the shootings of Isam K. Salman and Hayder Al Turk at Salman’s Midway Market on Elm Street. Salman’s sister, Anna, calls for the death penalty.

Cold Metal Products Inc. announces it will have an initial public stock offering for 2.77 million shares at between $11 and $13 a share. The company has 720 employees at plants in three states and Canada, including 245 locally.

A.C. McCullough, disc jockey for radio station HOT 101-FM does his show dressed as a woman after losing a bet on the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl.

1979: Niles-headquartered RMI Co., the country’s leading titanium producer, will spend $3.5 million to boost its Ashtabula capacity to produce titanium sponge by 25 percent, President James L. Daniell announces.

Anthony A. Colao Jr. is elected president and CEO by directors of People’s Bank of Youngstown.

Three people are arrested and a large quantity of liquor confiscated after two cruiser patrolmen walk into an Albert Street bottle club containing more than 150 people.

1969: Clarence Sandrock, 53, an attendant at Bob Witt’s Sohio Station, 839 Wick Ave., is found shot to death, the apparent victim of an armed robber.

Dessiree Jackson, 52, who tended bar at the Central Athletic Club on Pennsylvania Avenue, Niles, is shot three times and killed while trying to flee robbers. A revolver and $36 in cash were taken.

Dan Maggianetti Jr., former Youngstown vice squad chief and a lieutenant in the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department, is appointed Boardman police chief by trustees.

1944: Youngstown building inspector Paul Boucherie condemns as unsafe for occupancy the city’s oldest fire station, a 50-year-old structure at Oak and Fruit streets. He says the building is in danger of collapse.

Howard Coler, 38, and Lloyd Haynes, 27, are appointed by police Chief John Thomas as cadet patrolmen on the Youngstown Police Department.

What is believed to be the first Amish divorce in Holmes County history is granted to Homer Gingerich, 68, Berlin farmer, and Mattie Miller Gingerich, 61, after 43 years of marriage and 10 children.