Today is Sunday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2006. There are 350 days left in the year. On this date in 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta.

Today is Sunday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2006. There are 350 days left in the year. On this date in 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta.
In 1559, England's Queen Elizabeth I is crowned in Westminster Abbey. In 1844, the University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana. In 1919, pianist and statesman Ignace Jan Paderewski becomes the first premier of the newly created republic of Poland. In 1942, Jawaharlal Nehru succeeds Mohandas K. Gandhi as head of India's National Congress Party. In 1943, work is completed on the Pentagon, now the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. In 1967, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeat the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League in the first Super Bowl, 35-10. In 1973, President Nixon announces the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations. In 1981, the police drama series "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC.
January 15, 1981: Up to 160 Youngstown municipal employees face layoffs within the next few weeks after city council passes a $23.8 million general fund budget.
A Youngstown man who allegedly held three members of his family hostage in their Redondo Road home and threatened to shoot anyone who came his way is under observation in Woodside Receiving Hospital.
A team from Youngstown State University will conduct a six-month study of the management structure of the Youngstown Police Department in light of manpower reductions and demands by city council for more street patrols.
January 15, 1966: Youngstown Bishop Emmet M. Walsh marks 50 years in the priesthood by attending mass in the chapel at St. Elizabeth Hospital, where he has been a patient for several months. A beautiful handmade French chalice of antique design is presented to him as a gift from priests of the diocese.
Three storerooms in West State St. in downtown Sharon are gutted in a general alarm fire. Damage is estimated at $80,000.
Water Rauh, Youngstown smoke-control engineer, says only half of the city's pollution is caused by mills, the other half is produced by private homes and traffic.
January 15, 1956: The total cost of the Westinghouse strike goes well over the $300 million mark and skyrockets into such national attention that some top AFL-CIO leaders are urging the International Union of Electrical Workers to end the walkout.
U.S. Weather Bureau workers at the Youngstown Municipal Airport are finding an increasing demand for weather information, from aviators, farmers, natural gas employees, concrete workers and many more.
New Castle's Chuck Tanner, his confidence bolstered by an impressive initial season in the major leagues, tells Vindicator Sports Editor Lawrence Stolle that he expects to be a regular in left field for the Milwaukee Braves when the season opens.
January 15, 1931: Joe Jones, former Mahoning County Republican chairman and candidate for sheriff in 1926, testifies that "By" Morgan, former Republican clerk of the board of elections, opened two absentee ballots in his presence during the 1926 election, and that when Jones warned him that this was a penitentiary offense, Morgan ordered him out of the room.
Mahoning County Sheriff Adam Stone will install shortwave radio receiving sets in two county automobiles that will be used to service rural areas.
The wholesale price of eggs falls three cents to 30 cents a dozen in Youngstown while butter rises a half-cent to 36 cents a pound.
Playing at the State Theater, D.W. Griffith's mammoth spectacle, "Abraham Lincoln," starring Walter Huston.
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