YEARS AGO FOR FEB. 8

Today is Friday, Feb. 8, the 39th day of 2019. There are 326 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1487: Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she is implicated in a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I.

1693: A charter is granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

1862: The Civil War Battle of Roanoke Island, N.C., ends in victory for Union forces led by Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.

1910: The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated.

1952: Queen Elizabeth II proclaims her accession to the British throne after the death of her father, King George VI.

1965: The Supremes’ record “Stop! In the Name of Love!” is released by Motown.

1968: Three college students are killed in a confrontation between demonstrators and highway patrolmen at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg in the wake of protests over a whites-only bowling alley.

1993: General Motors sues NBC, alleging that “Dateline NBC” had rigged two car-truck crashes to show that 1973 to 1987 GM pickups are prone to fires in side-impact crashes.

2018: The federal government stumbles into a shutdown that would end by morning, its second in less than a month.

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1994: The Mahoning County Board of Health task force on smoking recommends banning smoking in schools, libraries and other places children could be subjected to secondhand smoke. Smoking would be allowed in malls and restaurants.

State Rep. June Lucas, D-67th, Mineral Ridge, introduces a bill that would expand the statute of limitations for victims of childhood sexual abuse to pursue civil action against the alleged abuser.

Mary Ella Lovett Belton, 86, longtime educator and oft-honored community activist, dies of a heart ailment in Southside Medical Center.

1979: Republican Gov. James A. Rhodes appoints Hubbard state Rep. Michael Del Bane, 61, a Democrat to the three-member Ohio Public Utilities Commission.

GF Business Equipment is exploring selling its recently completed but never opened plant in Athens, Ga. CEO Mason D. Feisel says the labor climate in Youngstown has improved since work began on the building.

Rayen’s Greg Jones explodes for 43 points in the Tigers 113-59 win over East, taking over the City Series basketball scoring lead.

1969: Atty. William Higgins and McCullough Williams Jr. address a meeting attended by 100 people at Price Memorial AME Zion Church where a drive was launched to register all eligible Negro voters for the June primary.

A 23-year-old Youngstown man, described by police as the ringleader of five Youngstown State University students arrested in a September drug raid at an Elm Street address, is found guilty of possession of LSD and sentenced to a year in county jail.

Sharon Steel Corp. files suit in federal court in Pittsburgh to halt a takeover by NVF Co. of Wilmington, Del., a rubber vulcanizing firm that has acquired 51 percent of the common stock.

1944: George Davis, 34, guides his wife and two small children to safety from their burning home at 2726 Hillman St., then returns to the house for warm clothes for the children. He became trapped and had to jump from a second floor window, seriously injuring his leg.

Youngstown’s $2.6 million municipal airport is virtually “dead” with only six daily airline flights after the closing of two war-time flight-instruction schools.

Nine confessed operators of the Big House lottery syndicate are fined $53,600 and sentenced to 1,620 days in jail.