Today is Thursday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2019. There are 327 days left in the year.

February 7, 2019 at 12:00a.m.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1795: The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with states’ sovereign immunity, is ratified.

1812: Author Charles Dickens is born in Landport, Portsmouth, England.

1817: America’s first public gas street lamp is lighted in Baltimore.

1904: A fire rages for about 30 hours and destroys more than 1,500 buildings in Baltimore.

1943: Wartime rationing of shoes made of leather will take effect in two days, limiting consumers to buying three pairs per person per year.

1962: President John F. Kennedy imposes a full trade embargo on Cuba.

1964:The Beatles arrive at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to begin their first American tour.

1971: Women in Switzerland win the right to vote.

1984: Space shuttle Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart go on the first untethered spacewalk, which lasts nearly six hours.

2009: A miles-wide section of ice in Lake Erie breaks away from the Ohio shoreline, trapping about 135 fishermen, some for as long as four hours before they could be rescued (one man fell into the water and later died of an apparent heart attack).

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Mahoning County courts and municipal courts in Youngstown, Campbell and Struthers have not been reporting disposition of cases to the state’s criminal computer network as has been required by law since 1989.

State Sen. Linda Furney, D- Toledo, has a proposal ready for introduction in the Ohio Senate that would increase membership on park boards such as the Mill Creek Metropolitan Park from three to five and would make county commissioners, not the probate court, the appointing authority.

Frank Gentile, fighting at 119 pounds, makes quick work of Canadian Claude Lambert, stopping him at 2:22 of the first round in the USA-Canadian Boxing Dual at Marquette, Mich.

1979: Warren Mayor Arthur Richards receives notice from the U.S. Office of Revenue Sharing that the city faces the loss of $700,000 in federal funds unless it provides a roster of city employees showing their race and gender within 15 days.

The FBI arrests a 38-year-old Youngstown man on charges that he threatened to bomb the Mahoning National Bank branch in North Lima unless he was paid $150,000.

Gov. James A. Rhodes’ two-year budget of $17.7 billion calls for $3.3 billion to be spent on public schools, an increase of 23 percent over the previous budget.

1969: A cooperative effort is discussed by Youngstown State University and the Mahoning County Community College to establish a new institution in Canfield.

The Youngstown Board of Education invites the public to look at its books and help solve its inability to pay its bills.

Cyclops Corp., a Pittsburgh steelmaker, drops out of the race for control of Sharon Steel Corp.

1944: Youngstown City Council’s special investigating committee finds rampant juvenile delinquency and prostitution in an inspection by plain-clothed police of 17 beer parlors, hotels, a burlesque theater and the bus arcade.

Declaring that “we want to see racketeers in Youngstown who have pleaded guilty punished to the law’s extent,” the Youngstown Ministerial Association votes to send a letter to Judge Adrian Newcomb, who was assigned here for a state investigation of vice and rackets.

A three-alarm fire of undetermined origin destroys the pickling plant of Republic Steel Corp. beside the South Avenue Bridge.