Today is Saturday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2006. There are 344 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2006. There are 344 days left in the year. On this date in 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, is executed on the guillotine.
In 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and four other Southerners resign from the U.S. Senate. In 1915, the first Kiwanis Club is founded, in Detroit. In 1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin dies at age 54. In 1942, Count Basie and His Orchestra record "One O'clock Jump" in New York for Okeh Records. In 1950, former State Department official Alger Hiss, accused of being part of a Communist spy ring, is found guilty in New York of lying to a grand jury. (Hiss, who always maintained his innocence, serves less than four years in prison.) In 1950, George Orwell, author of "1984," dies in London. In 1954, the first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched at Groton, Conn., (however, the Nautilus does not make its first nuclear-powered run until nearly a year later). In 1976, the supersonic Concorde jet is put into service by Britain and France. In 1977, President Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders. In 1997, Speaker Newt Gingrich is reprimanded and fined as the House votes for first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct.
January 21, 1981: Ohio Edison Co. customers will have to pay as much as one third more for electricity over the next 10 years to pay for environmental controls the company has agreed to install at 10 Ohio power plants, including those in Niles and East Palestine.
Four youths charged in the Nov. 1 shooting death of 14-year-old Veronica Vaughn are indicted, one on aggravated murder and three on complicity to commit aggravated murder.
Gary Lee, a former Youngstown man who was one of 52 American hostages held in Iran for 444 days, calls his parents in California and says he hopes to be home in time to watch the Super Bowl.
January 21, 1966: Kent State University tentatively chooses a 390-acre site on the city's outskirts for a $2.5 million college campus and technical center, the first of its kind in Ohio.
An 82-day strike by Teamsters against the Golden Age and Pepsi Cola operations in Youngstown and Warren ends when both sides agree to a pact that will provide raises of 37 cents an hour over three years.
Former Ohio Gov. Michael V. DiSalle declares he will not seek the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican Gov. James A. Rhodes.
January 21, 1956: The whole Northern Ohio region, extending from Cleveland through Ashtabula and Youngstown, is one of the most favorable spots in the nation for new industry because of its central location to the nation's largest buying area, says Richard L. DeChant, manager of development for the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co.
About 200 Youngstown district Republicans attend the Cleveland "Salute to Eisenhower." President Eisenhower attended the Salute in Washington, D.C., making his first "night out" appearance since his heart attack in September.
Nena Hall, 75, of Chestnut Ridge Road, is fatally injured when struck by a car while crossing W. Liberty St. near Jackson St. in Hubbard.
January 21, 1931: Contractor A. Guthrie & amp; Co. of St. Paul, Minn., files suit for $562,508 against the Mahoning County Sanitary District in U.S. District Court in Cleveland for alleged losses by the company in the construction of the Meander Dam.
Youngstown Mayor Joseph L. Heffernan signs a stringent city law prohibiting the installation or operation of any sort of slot machine or gambling device in the city.
The demand of the Pittsburgh delegation that the army engineers report on Route No. 1 for a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal struck a snag today when H.W. Hobbs, secretary of the rivers and harbors board, said that the report might not be ready until next fall.