Saturday, February 16, 2019
Today is Saturday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2019. There are 318 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1804: Lt. Stephen Decatur leads a successful raid into Tripoli Harbor to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates during the First Barbary War.
1948: N-B-C T-V begins airing its first nightly newscast, “The Camel Newsreel Theatre,” which consists of Fox Movietone newsreels.
1959: Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba a month and a-half after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.
1961: The U.S. launches the Explorer 9 satellite.
1968: The nation’s first 911 emergency telephone system is inaugurated in Haleyville, Ala.
1996: Eleven people are killed in a fiery collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a Maryland commuter train in Silver Spring, Md.
2001: The United States and Britain stage airstrikes against radar stations and air-defense command centers in Iraq.
2014: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry calls climate change perhaps the “most fearsome” destructive weapon and mocks those who deny its existence.
2018: In an indictment, special counsel Robert Mueller accuses 13 Russians of an elaborate plot to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
VINDICATOR FILES
1994: A 32-year-old Jackson Township man is in Woodside Hospital after a six-hour standoff during which he fired shots at Mahoning County deputies and federal agents.
Warren City Councilman David Hernandez said the Packard Music Hall cost the city $229,000 in 1993, but only produced $70,000 in revenue. He suggests cutting manager Virginia Ward Johnston’s salary from $42,000 to $31,000 and assistant manager Christopher Stevenson from $35,000 to $24,000.
James Farmer, a civil-rights leader and founder of the Congress of Racial Equality, tells an audience at Westminster College that the movie “Mississippi is Burning” was largely fiction. He said he and other activists in Mississippi in 1964 had to pressure the FBI to become involved in the disappearance of three civil- rights workers.
1979: The death of Jodi Masters, 19, in a fire at the Scioto Avenue home she shared with her husband Steve, also 19, is now a murder investigation, Boardman police say.
Sidney L. Kline, president of Lustig’s shoes, is elected president of the Youngstown Board of Trade.
The International Institute of Youngstown moves into its new home, a mansion at 661 Wick Avenue, the sixth site for the institute in its 61-year history.
1969: The Warren Board of Education authorizes the razing of the 100-year-old Trumbull County Fairgrounds grandstands adjacent to Warren G. Harding High School. It is the last vestige of the old downtown fairgrounds.
Mrs. Leonard Isroff and J. Ronald Pittman will be honored as outstanding man and woman of the year in the field of human relations at the 11th annual Brotherhood Night at Rodef Sholom Temple.
An abundance of site offers are made in Sharon to the International Union of Electrical Workers at Westinghouse Electric Corp. for the proposed $3 million high-rise apartment complex for retired workers.
1944: The Chamber of Commerce Post-War Committee says Youngstown and other municipalities in Mahoning County have no money to finance even the planning needed for post-war public improvements of lasting value.
Baxter Lee “Sugar” Harrell, handsome leader of an international gang of white slavers operating out of Youngstown, pleads guilty to violating the Mann Act and is sentenced to seven years in prison.
The Ohio Supreme Court denies a rehearing on Republican Arthur H. Williams’ challenge of Democrat Ralph O’Neill’s 8-vote victory in the Youngstown mayoral race. O’Neill had 21,733 votes; Williams, 21,725.