YEARS AGO FOR FEB. 25

Today is Monday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 2019. There are 309 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1570: England’s Queen Elizabeth I is excommunicated by Pope Pius V, who accused the monarch of heresy.

1793: President George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting on record at his Mount Vernon home; attending are Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox and Attorney General Edmund Randolph.

1836: Inventor Samuel Colt patents his revolver.

1862: Nashville, Tenn., becomes the first Confederate state capital to be occupied by the North during the Civil War.

1901: J.P. Morgan incorporates the U.S. Steel Corp.

1913: The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, is declared in effect by Secretary of State Philander Chase Knox.

1964:Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) becomes the world heavyweight boxing champion as he defeats Sonny Liston in Miami Beach.

1986: President Ferdinand Marcos flees the Philippines after 20 years of rule in the wake of a tainted election; Corazon Aquino assumes the presidency.

2018: The Winter Olympics in South Korea end.

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1994: The Catholic Diocese of Youngstown concludes the latest fiscal year in the black for the first time in four years. Total revenue was $6.6 million and expenditures were $6.1 million.

At least nine artists – painters, sculptors and musicians – have established studios in the old Ward Bakery on Mahoning Avenue.

1979: The Ohio Nurses Association chapter that represents 550 nurses at the Youngstown Hospital Association’s North Side, South Side and Tod Babies’ and Children’s hospitals signs a three-year contract, averting a strike.

Dr. Taghi T. Kermani, a Youngstown State University economics professor, warns that turmoil in Iran – where the shah was ousted and Ayatollah Khomeini has taken control – could have long-range implications for the United States.

General Motors is considering a multimillion-dollar expansion program at its Lordstown complex which would produce a new “world car” aimed at the growing small-car market.

1969: The area’s first coordinated strike of city and county workers cripples services in Warren and Trumbull County. Garbage is piling up, streets are slick and about 115 patients at the Trumbull County Home are receiving minimum care.

An increase in the number of 16- to 21-year-olds from Mahoning County at Woodside Receiving Hospital is alarming professional social workers. They see it as a sign of inadequate local children’s services.

Twenty parochial elementary school students and two Ursuline High students, all from Coitsville Township, escape injury when a sniper fired a shot through a rear window of a Youngstown school bus.

1944: Dr. William H. Bunn, director of the heart clinic of Youngstown Hospital, is elected a member of the board of directors of the American Heart Association.

Mayor Ralph O’Neill warns Youngstown police officers that when they accept jobs during off hours with private employers, such as tavern owners, they will be held responsible for law enforcement at the places where they are working.

Mrs. Michael J. Ryan has given 1,300 volunteer hours of service to the Mahoning County Chapter of the American Red Cross.