Today is Saturday, Jan. 7, the seventh day of 2006. There are 358 days left in the year. On this

Today is Saturday, Jan. 7, the seventh day of 2006. There are 358 days left in the year. On this date in 1789, the first U.S. presidential election is held. Americans vote for electors who then choose George Washington to be the nation's first president.
In 1610, Galileo Galilei sights four of Jupiter's moons. In 1800, the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore, is born in Summerhill, N.Y. In 1927, commercial trans-Atlantic telephone service is inaugurated between New York and London. In 1942, the World War II siege of Bataan begins. In 1953, President Truman announces in his State of the Union address that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb. In 1955, singer Marian Anderson makes her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera." In 1955, the opening of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa is televised for the first time. In 1972, Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William H. Rehnquist are sworn in as the 99th and 100th members of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1989, Emperor Hirohito of Japan dies in Tokyo at age 87; he is succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Akihito. In 1996, a major blizzard paralyzes the eastern United States. (More than 100 deaths are later blamed on the severe weather.) In 1999, for the second time in history, an impeached American president goes on trial before the Senate. President Clinton faced charges of perjury and obstruction of justice; he was acquitted. In 2001, President-elect George W. Bush's transition team acknowledges that Labor Secretary-designate Linda Chavez had provided housing and financial aid to an illegal immigrant. (Chavez later withdraws her nomination.) In 2005, Rosemary Kennedy, the mentally retarded oldest sister of President Kennedy and the inspiration for the Special Olympics, dies at a Fort Atkinson, Wis., hospital at age 86.
January 7, 1981: Investigators are probing the gangland ties of a Cleveland man whose body was found in Mesopotamia Township in Trumbull County. David M. Perrier, 32, had been named as one of the drivers in the bombing death of Cleveland Rackets figure Daniel Greene and an associate of Ronald and Charles Carabbia of Struthers. Ronald Carabbia was convicted in Greene's murder and Charles Carabbia has disappeared.
Winter's heaviest snowfall closes some area schools and contributes to a fatal collision on Ohio Route 170 in Columbiana. The Ohio Bureau of Employment Services announces that it has willing workers on file to shovel or plow snow for area residents. Payment is agreed upon by the homeowner and worker.
January 7, 1966: Mahoning Common Pleas Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt removes what may be the final legal hurdle blocking construction of the Strouss-Hirshberg Co. parking garage in Commerce Street. He dismissed a taxpayers' suit seeking to block construction.
Thomas P. Carney, who first became active in Republican politics when Charles P. Henderson was mayor, is chosen to succeed him as a member of the Mahoning County Board of Elections. Henderson has taken office as a Probate Court judge.
January 7, 1956: McAllister Dairy Farm Inc. of Warren appeals to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania a $2,000 fine that was levied against the company for refunding 5 cents on each gallon or half-gallon jug of milk sold at its Meadville. Store. The Pennsylvania Milk Control Commission alleged that the refund violated the law setting minimum milk prices in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Irvine Page of Cleveland, president of the American Heart Association, says heredity more than high-pressure living is responsible for the increasing rates of heart deaths. "Men have lived with high pressure since they built the pyramids in Egypt," Page says.
January 7, 1931: Mildred Greer, 14, of North Lima is killed in the first fatal coasting accident of the year when her sled is struck by an automobile on Pine Lake Road near North Lima. In Youngstown, Traffic Commissioner Carl L. Olson warns against the dangers of sledding on city streets and says streets available for coasting will be assigned in the near future.
James A. Campbell, president of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., and Eugene Grace, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp., are meeting in New York to discuss the future prospects of merger of the companies.