YEARS AGO FOR FEB. 10

Today is Sunday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2019. There are 324 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1840: Britain’s Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

1841: Upper Canada and Lower Canada are proclaimed united under an Act of Union passed by the British Parliament.

1863: Showman P.T. Barnum stages the wedding of General Tom Thumb and Mercy Lavinia Warren – both little persons – in New York City.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Youngstown Street Superintendent William Dundee says dozens of streets can be resurfaced for what it costs to reconstruct one, but much of the resurfacing money is wasted because the streets are too badly damaged to be saved.

General Motors Corp. announces that it had profits of $1.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 1993.

Warren City Councilman Alford Novak, D-2nd, says municipal court judges should not be hiring new employees until the court resolves its $800,000 debt.

1979: Atty. Franklin S. Bennett of Manchester, Bennett, Powers & Ullman, is elected chairman of the board of Youngstown Hospital Association, succeeding William B. Pollock II.

The actuary for the city of New Castle, Pa., warns that the firemen’s pension fund could be bankrupt in five years unless there is a bailout by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A fire of suspicious origin destroys a large frame warehouse on Logangate Road, the former site of the notorious Jungle Inn gambling empire during the 1930s and 1940s.

1969: The Henry J. Kaiser Jr. plaque is presented to Frank Lewis Jr., 36, a lift-truck driver for Kaiser Refractories, for his heroic rescue of an elderly man trapped in a mine tunnel near Negley.

Congressman Michael J. Kirwan, D-Youngstown, is reappointed by House Speaker John McCormick to the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

Wayne Williams, a custodian at Mary Haddow School, is locked in the trunk of his car for an hour and a half after surprising a burglar in the school on Sunday morning. He freed himself by removing the trunk’s lock from the inside.

1944: About 700 employees of Diebold Inc. at Canton are being laid off after the government cancels orders for White Motor Co. Diebold produced armor plate for the trucks.

Judge Lynn B. Griffith gives the Trumbull Board of Elections two weeks to put back into the files the eligible names of 5,000 men and women in the armed forces. The board had removed the names for not voting in the last two years.

Mahoning County’s special grand jury investigating vice and crime, which has been in session for a year, adjourned but will resume work in several weeks. Thirty-one of 33 people indicted were fined or fined and given jail sentences.