YEARS AGO FOR FEB. 6

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 6, the 37th day of 2019. There are 328 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1778: During the American Revolutionary War, the United States wins official recognition and military support from France with the signing of a Treaty of Alliance in Paris.

1788: Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1911: Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, is born in Tampico, Ill.

1952: Britain’s King George VI, 56, dies at Sandringham House in Norfolk, England; he is succeeded as monarch by his 25-year-old elder daughter, who becomes Queen Elizabeth II. She continues to reign today.

1991: Comedian and TV performer Danny Thomas dies in Los Angeles at 79.

1993: Tennis Hall of Famer and human rights advocate Arthur Ashe dies in New York at age 49.

2000: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton launches her successful candidacy for the U.S. Senate.

2014: House Speaker John Boehner all but rules out passage of immigration legislation before the fall elections.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: United Way of Youngstown-Mahoning Valley, which was founded in 1919 as the Community Corp., an outgrowth of World War I fundraising efforts, will celebrate its 75th anniversary at Stambaugh Auditorium.

Walter M. Duzzny, director of Youngstown-Mahoning Emergency Management Agency, is elected vice president of Region V of the National Coordinating Council on Emergency Management.

Youngstown State University Athletic Director Joe Malmisur and football Coach Jim Tressel meet with Ohio State University officials to discuss a possible season-opening game between the OSU Buckeyes and the NCAA Division 1-AA champions, the YSU Penguins.

1979: A group known as the People’s Committee of Brookfield presents petitions with 1,038 signatures calling for trustee Wayne Baxter to resign. Baxter tells organizer John Kirilla, “If you want me out of office, run against me.”

Thirty-three parking meters are smashed by vandals in two parking lots in New Castle, Pa.

There’s little relief in sight from a cold snap in the Mahoning Valley, where temperatures have been running 20 degrees below normal and where two record lows were set in a week.

1969: A contract between the city and the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department for loans and grants to buy property in the second downtown Urban Renewal area is approved unanimously by City Council.

City Council declines for the second time to approve a first phase report on the financial feasibly of a new $4.8 million terminal building at Youngstown Municipal Airport.

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Ralph C. Kotheimer, pastor emeritus of St. Joseph Church, Canton, and a Youngstown native, dies of cancer at the rectory. He held the title of protonotary apostolic in the Catholic Church.

1944: Mahoning County Juvenile Court Judge Henry Beckenbach reports that of the boys who came before the court in 1943, family status was a strong factor, with 188 living with their mother only, 79 with father only, 59 with stepfather, 58 with stepmother and 57 with other relatives.

Janie Wick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mason Wick of Salem and a graduate of Smith College, is commissioned an ensign at the Naval Reserve Midshipman’s School at Northampton, Mass.

The Florence Crittenton Home for unmarried mothers on McGuffey Road is near its capacity of 10 infants, with nine in residence. Several though, are due to go home.