YEARS AGO FOR FEB. 18

Today is Monday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2019. There are 316 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1546: Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, dies in Eisleben.

1861: Jefferson Davis is sworn in as provisional president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala.

1913: Mexican President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President Jose Maria Pino Suarez are arrested during a military coup (both were shot to death on Feb. 22).

1930: Photographic evidence of Pluto (now designated a “dwarf planet”) is discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.

1972: The California Supreme Court strikes down the state’s death penalty.

1983: Thirteen people are shot to death at a gambling club in Seattle’s Chinatown in what becomes known as the Wah Mee Massacre.

1988: Anthony M. Kennedy is sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

2001: Auto-racing star Dale Earnhardt Sr. dies in a crash at the Daytona 500; he was 49.

2018: LeBron James scores 29 points and wins his third NBA All-Star Game MVP award as his team beats the rival squad headed by Stephen Curry, 148-to-145.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Eight candidates file for the Mahoning County commissioner’s seat being vacated by Thomas J. Carney, who is retiring. Among them are former commissioner Leonard Yurcho and former Austintown trustee Kenneth Zinz.

Warren Councilman David Hernandez says he is dropping his proposal to cut the salaries of managers of the Packard Music Hall, but he still wants something done to stop the need for city funds to subsidize the hall’s operations.

Brookfield High’s Lady Warriors give Austintown Fitch its first home loss of the season after a lay-up by Karen Prater with 30 seconds remaining gave Brookfield the 51-49 win. Fitch had won in 1993 by 2 points and in 1992 by 1 point.

1979: Cities, villages and townships that have street lighting contracts with Ohio Edison Electric Co. face a 33 percent rate increase.

Dr. Donald Renwand, retiring superintendent of Niles City School District, says the greatest danger that educators must guard against is allowing education to become so structured that students lose their individuality.

D. Richard Billak, director of the Mahoning County Residential Treatment Center, is elected chairman of the Youth Services Coordinating Council.

1969: The building housing Hartzell’s Rose & Sons at 135 W. Federal St., is purchased by City Realty Co. in the Realty Bldg. for $70,000.

The Mahoning County Welfare Department will hire an investigator to help increase the percentage of support payments collected by the Youngstown Humane Society.

The Mahoning County Welfare Advisory Board appeals to the State Welfare Department to raise the reimbursement from $4 to $6 a day for patients at the Mahoning County Nursing Home to $7 to $8.25.

1944: James Pardee, 30, Lowell Avenue, assistant chief pilot and instructor for Wilson Flying Service at New Castle, Pa., Airport, and Naval Aviation Cadet Glenn Denning, 18, of McKeesport, Pa., are killed in a crash of two Navy training planes at Mount Jackson, Pa.

In a speech at the Hotel Pick-Ohio, Paul Hoffman, president of Studebaker, warns against the attempt by some groups to attain “full employment” by a 30-hour work week at 40 hours pay immediately after the war. He says such a plan would lower living standards for everyone.

Ohio Democratic leaders meeting in Columbus endorse President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented fourth term, calling him “the chief of all the world’s diplomats, premiers and rulers.”