Today is Sunday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2006. There are 336 days left in the year. This is the

Today is Sunday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2006. There are 336 days left in the year. This is the Chinese New Year of the Dog. On this date in 1956, editor-essayist H.L. Mencken, the "Sage of Baltimore," dies at age 75.
In 1820, Britain's King George III dies at Windsor Castle, ending a reign that had seen both the American and French revolutions. In 1843, the 25th president of the United States, William McKinley, is born in Niles, Ohio. In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" is first published, in the New York Evening Mirror. In 1850, Henry Clay introduces in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery which includes the admission of California into the Union as a free state. In 1861, Kansas becomes the 34th state of the Union. In 1936, the first members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, are named in Cooperstown, N.Y. In 1958, actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward are married. In 1963, the first members of football's Hall of Fame are named in Canton, Ohio. In 1979, President Carter formally welcomes Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations. In 1998, a bomb rocks an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer working as a security guard, and critically injuring Emily Lyons, a nurse. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, is captured in May 2003.)
January 29, 1981: Youngstown is mailing lay-off notices to more than 100 city employees in various departments.
A 23-year-old Canton woman is stunned to be sentenced to a night in jail and a $100 fine after she overslept and reported two hours late for jury duty in a rape trial in Summit County Common Pleas Court.
Sharon City Council gives first reading to an ordinance that will require all landlords to submit their properties to basic safety and health code inspections before they are rented.
Bowing to the same economic pressures that afflicted the Carter administration, President Reagan is asking Congress to raise the national debt limit to almost $1 trillion. The limit stands at $935 billion.
It may become increasingly difficult for other U.S. and foreign automakers to compete with General Motors' wide range of new and fuel efficient cars, writes analyst Dan Jedlicka. The new J-car that replaces the Chevrolet Monza and Pontiac Sunbird will get nearly 30 mpg. An electric car may be introduced in 1984 or '85.
January 29, 1966: Two men charged with morals offenses are found to be psychopathic offenders by Common Pleas Judge Erskine Maiden Jr. The men were involved in a morals ring with teenage boys in 1964. A third man challenges being sent to Lima State Hospital based on an examination by Dr. Julius Nemeth at Woodside Receiving Hospital, who found no evidence of psychopathic behavior.
A team of Warren architects will determine the cost of a face-lifting for the Trumbull County Courthouse, whose massive frame shows weariness after 71 years of service.
Atty. Joseph O'Neill, Youngstown City Council president, challenges the eligibility of a Canfield resident to file a lawsuit against the city's new $1,500 amusement device tax.
Two to four inches of snow are expected to accompany bone-chilling temperatures of 0 degrees in the Youngstown area. An overnight reading of -7 was a record low for the date.
January 29, 1956: Fire rages for more than four hours through a downtown Columbiana business block, destroying five stores, including Ben Franklin, Federated Stores and Sponseller Jewelry. Damage is estimated at $100,000.
President Chiang Kai-shek says thatif he were left unhindered by outside influences, the time has come to counterattack Mainland China and overturn the Communist regime. He predicts the people of the mainland would join his cause once he established a beachhead.
Emmet Buist, speechless and deaf virtually all his life, is honored for 25 years service with the Fish Dry Cleaning Co., receiving a gift of a gold watch. He is former president of the Youngstown Silent Club.
The value of mortgages in Mahoning County increased almost $21 million in 1955 over 1954, reflecting Youngstown's and Mahoning County's building boom.
January 29, 1931: Thirty-five children riding in the Enon Valley-Mount Jackson, Pa., school bus are injured, two seriously enough to be taken to Jameson Memorial Hospital, after the bus overturns in a ditch near the Westfield Church.
Roy Wright, 18, of 803 Tod Ave., Youngstown, is in the prison ward of Cleveland City Hospital following a gun battle with detectives that occurred, it is said, when he attempted to rob the same grocery store for the third time in five days.
After the Red Cross declines to distribute $25 million in relief funds for the jobless approved by the U.S. Senate, senators discuss increasing the fund to $50 million and putting it in the hands of the Salvation Army.
The U.S. government apologizes to Premier Mussolini of Italy for a recent speech in Philadelphia by Marine Gen. Smedley E. Butler in which he accused Mussolini of running down a child with his car and driving on. Butler faces court-martial.
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