Today is Saturday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2019. There are 325 days left in the year.

February 9, 2019 at 12:00a.m.

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On this date in:

1825: The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams president after no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes.

1861: Jefferson Davis is elected provisional president of the Confederate States of America.

1942: Daylight-saving “War Time” goes into effect in the United States, with clocks moved one hour forward.

1950: In a speech in Wheeling, W.Va., Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charges that the State Department is riddled with Communists.

1960: Adolph Coors Co. chairman Adolph Coors III, 44, is shot to death in suburban Denver during a botched kidnapping attempt.

1964: The Beatles make their first live American television appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” broadcast from New York on CBS.

2017: A federal appeals court refuses to reinstate President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, unanimously rejecting the administration’s claim of presidential authority.

2018: President Donald Trump signs a $400 billion budget deal that sharply boosts spending, swelling the federal deficit; the measure ends a brief overnight federal government shutdown.

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1994: Youngstown businessman Victor Calautti, long mentioned by authorities in connection with organized crime in the Mahoning Valley, is a target of an FBI probe into money laundering, racketeering and fraud.

Creditors of Phar-Mor Inc. are looking to recover $75 million that directors and shareholders received in a 1991 stock buy back.

Former President George H.W. Bush helped raise $120,000 for the election campaign of U.S. Rep. Rob Portman, who worked for the former president as a liaison to Congress. Bush spoke at a $100-a-plate breakfast in Cincinnati for Portman.

1979: The Packard Electric Division of General Motors announces that it will hire 46 employees in Warren, the first significant hiring for the automotive wiring manufacturer since 1973.

Saying she cannot tolerate “disrespectful” conduct, Juvenile Court Judge Patricia Anderson jails three Carroll County commissioners who refused to give her more money to run her court.

The Youngstown Hospital Association says it has made “a considerable offer of wages and fringe benefits” to its 550 nurses at North Side, South Side and Tod Babies’ and Children’s hospitals.

1969: Junior ROTC cadets from Harding and Western Reserve high schools in Warren visit the 910th Troop Carrier Group at the Youngstown Air Reserve Base.

Vivian Harvey Slater, concert pianist and former Warren resident, will present a recital at the Town & Country Motel with proceeds going to the Halsey Taylor Rehabilitation Center building fund.

The Woodrow Wilson High School debate teams captured two of four trophies offered at the tournament of the Northeast Ohio District of the Ohio High School Speech League.

1944: Miss Hilda Orr, graduate of East High, Morgan College and Atlanta University School of Social Work, has been employed as a counselor among Negro women at Wright Aeronautical Corp. in Dayton.

St. Dominic defeats St. Francis for the first half championship of the Catholic Men’s Bowling League. The winners had games of 785-871-851.

Members and friends of the Columbiana Presbyterian Church honor their pastor and his wife, the Rev. and Mrs. John McDivitt Jr., at a farewell dinner and party at the church.