Today is Monday, Jan. 9, the ninth day of 2006. There are 356 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, Jan. 9, the ninth day of 2006. There are 356 days left in the year. On this date in 1913, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, is born in Yorba Linda, Calif.
In 1788, Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1793, Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flies between Philadelphia and Woodbury, N.J. In 1945, during World War II, American forces begin landing at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines. In 1957, Anthony Eden resigns as British prime minister. In 1964, anti-U.S. rioting breaks out in the Panama Canal Zone, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and three U.S. soldiers. In 1968, the Surveyor 7 space probe makes a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface. In 1972, reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking by telephone from the Bahamas to reporters in Hollywood, says a purported biography of him by Clifford Irving is a fake. In 1997, a Comair commuter plane crashes 18 miles short of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing all 29 on board.
January 9, 1981: The chief negotiator of the Youngstown Education Association says alternatives to a strike are being considered to persuade the board to find money for pay increases. "Schools are for reading, writing and arithmetic and anything after 3:30 is another thing," says Andrew Hamady.
Niles, Hubbard, Newton Falls, Columbiana and 17 other Ohio communities will pay more for wholesale electricity as a result of a $10.6 million interim rate increase approved by the Federal Electric Regulatory Commission.
Robert B. Blake, former newspaper executive from Columbiana, is named executive director of the Mahoning County Medical Society, succeeding Howard Repes, who retired.
January 9, 1966: Robert I. Williams, the new president of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., predicts that the basic steel industry and the Youngstown district will have a good year in 1966.
Dixie XI, a registered 2-year-old Brittany spaniel owned by Mr. and Mrs. Chester Craig of Lowellville, has a near-record dozen puppies in her first litter. Carl Brown of Girard, president of the Ohio Brittany Club, says the record of 13 was reported in Pittsburgh a few years ago.
James A. Burt, a native of Youngstown, is elected president of Alcoa Building Products Inc. of Pittsburgh.
January 9, 1956: Five-year-old Ronald Scott dies and six of his brothers and sisters and their 58-year-old grandmother are burned when fire sweeps through their home at 8:15 W. Rayen Ave.
Youngstown Police Chief Paul Cress says the police department has voided parking tickets under an agreement reached in 1952 by Municipal Court Judges Robert B. Nevin, Forrest Cavalier and John W. Powers. The tickets he said were voided when there was evidence of faulty meters or when a truck had been ticketed while loading or unloading was taking place.
One hundred coeds from 12 colleges and universities in Ohio and Pennsylvania travel to Youngstown to take part in the second annual Holiday Playday sponsored by the Women's Recreation Association of Youngstown University at the YWCA. They play basketball, volleyball and other games.
January 9, 1931: Bethlehem Steel Corp. minority stockholders say that in the light of the rejection of a merger with Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. they will seek repayment of $36 million in bonuses paid in 1930 to Bethlehem officials.
The Cleveland News reports that a proposed formation of a $2 billion steel merger to rival giant U.S. Steel Corp. is being considered by a number of prominent steel men and financiers. Companies involved would be Bethlehem Steel Corp., Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., Jones & amp; Laughlin and Corrigan-McKinney and Otis Steel.
During a year of depression, savings accounts in Youngstown banks increased, by $2 million in 1930, while checking accounts showed a drop of $1.5 million.