YEARS AGO FOR FEB. 27

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2019. There are 307 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1801: The District of Columbia is placed under the jurisdiction of Congress.

1911: Inventor Charles F. Kettering demonstrates his electric automobile starter in Detroit by starting a Cadillac’s motor with just the press of a switch, instead of hand-cranking.

1922: The Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upholds the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of women to vote.

1951: The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, is ratified.

1968: At the conclusion of a CBS News special report on the Vietnam War, Walter Cronkite delivers a commentary in which he says the conflict appears “mired in stalemate.”

1982: Wayne Williams is found guilty of murdering two of the 28 young blacks whose bodies were found in the Atlanta area over a 22-month period.

1991: Operation Desert Storm ends as President George H.W. Bush declares that “Kuwait is liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated.”

2009: President Barack Obama tells Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C., that he will end combat operations in Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010.

2018: The security clearance of White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner has been downgraded, significantly reducing his access to classified information.

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1994: Carlton Jackson, 22, and LaJuan Watson, 20, are gunned down in the parking lot of Picway Shoes in the 1900 block of McCartney Road while Jackson’s 2-year-old daughter was locked in a car nearby.

Long-time foster parents Paul and Angeline Paronish of Girard are demanding an explanation from the Mahoning County Children Services Board on why they were denied the possibility of adopting a 4-year-old boy and twin sisters who were removed from the Girard home and placed with a Canton couple.

The Youngstown State University Penguins drop a hard-fought 84-82 game to the University of Illinois-Chicago, despite freshman Damon Johnson’s 20 points. The loss knocks the Penguins out of post-season play.

1979: Glenn Waldron, director of private investment for the Economic Development Agency, says considerable federal help is on the way for revitalizing the Youngstown district to ameliorate the effects of steel layoffs.

Youngstowner Tim Joyce, Ohio University standout, is second only to Larry Bird of Indiana in East squad balloting for the Pizza Hut Basketball Classic that will be played in Las Vegas. Burrell McGhee of Warren and Kent State is in 19th place.

The Warren-Trumbull Urban League will have a dinner-fashion show-disco fund raiser for the Reading is Fundamental program.

1969: Youngstown Councilman Jack C. Hunter says the city should seek to ban obscene books and movies, even if success is impossible.

Lynn Stuckey, a 17-year-old senior at Poland High School, wins the eighth annual Junior Philharmonic Piano Concerto Competition. Second place was won by David White, a Brookfield freshman.

A contract for constructing the $4 million Presbyterian Home at Fifth Avenue and Broadway to provide residential and nursing care for 276 people will be signed at the Youngstown Club.

1944: Youngstown City Council’s special investigation committee, making a second tour of taverns and pool halls, finds no evidence of liquor being sold to minors. The Tod Billiard Parlor operator is arrested for allowing a juvenile to play pool after the curfew.

For the fourth consecutive year, Youngstown is awarded the National Amateur Baseball Federation Tournament. Tommy Pemberton, Youngstown park commissioner, is elected president of the sandlot organization.