YEARS AGO FOR FEB. 22

Today is Friday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2019. There are 312 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1630: English colonists in the Massachusetts Bay Colony first sample popcorn brought to them by a Native American named Quadequina for their Thanksgiving celebration.

1732: The first president of the United States, George Washington, is born in Westmoreland County in the Virginia Colony.

1862: Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the president of the Confederacy.

1959: The inaugural Daytona 500 race is run; although Johnny Beauchamp is initially declared the winner, the victory would be later awarded to Lee Petty.

1965: Former Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 82, dies in Washington, D.C.

1980: The “Miracle on Ice” takes place in Lake Placid, N.Y., as the United States Olympic hockey team upsets the Soviets, 4-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)

1987: Pop artist Andy Warhol dies at a New York City hospital at age 58.

1997: Scientists in Scotland announce they have succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named “Dolly.” (Dolly, however, was later put down after a short life marred by premature aging and disease.)

2018: Defying his supporters in the National Rifle Association, President Donald Trump says the nation should keep assault rifles out of the hands of anyone under 21.

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1994: Citing the high cost of environmental cleanup, Youngstown Welding and Engineering Co. will close its manufacturing facility that employs 140 people at 3700 Oakwood Avenue.

Speaking to 90 supporters in Sharon, U.S. Rep. Tom Ridge says he will spend $4 million in his race for governor and promises if he wins to make Pennsylvania more business-friendly.

Ira Thomas Associates wins top honors at the Akron ADDYs for a 30-second TV spot done for the Arms Family Museum of Youngstown.

1979: The General Motors Lordstown plant produces the 100 millionth Chevrolet. Robert Lund, general manager of the Chevrolet division, hands over the keys to beige 1979 Monza to its owner Dr. Jane Dunlap of Akron.

Vandals are blamed for an early morning fire that did $11,000 damage to Stambaugh Elementary School. A day earlier, a fire at Grant Elementary School did $50,000 damage.

Thousands of barrels of toxic and volatile chemical waste abandoned at a Deerfield dump pose a threat to the waters of Berlin Reservoir, officials with the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District tell the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

1969: The Rev. Spurgeon N. DuLaney, 76, pastor of Newton Falls-Braceville Baptist Church is struck and killed by a car while crossing First Street Southwest in Warren.

A former Youngstown man, Ronald Bennett, 28, is one of four Washington, D.C., policemen wounded in a gunfight in which a berserk civilian killed two women and wounded four policemen before taking his own life.

The first formal full dress inspection in Boardman police history opens a series of monthly in-service training programs scheduled by new Police Chief Dan Maggianetti Jr.

1944: Richard Flannery, 66-year-old night watchman at the Youngstown Brewery Inc. surprises a burglar attempting to force open a desk in the plant office and was seriously injured when the bandit struck him over the head with an iron bar.

Girard Safety Director George B. Curl orders city police to strictly enforce the city’s curfew law, which requires that all youths under 17 be off the streets by 10 p.m.

City Council enacts a new fee ordinance doubling the charge of $5 for each “juke” in the city and assessing a new fee of $1 for each wall or counter connection despite strong opposition from the Buckeye Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association.