Today is Monday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2006. There are 342 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2006. There are 342 days left in the year. On this date in 1973, President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War.
In 1789, Georgetown University is established in present-day Washington, D.C. In 1845, Congress decides all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. In 1920, the Dutch government refuses demands from the victorious Allies to hand over the ex-kaiser of Germany. In 1932, New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. In 1943, critic Alexander Woollcott suffers a fatal heart attack during a live broadcast of the CBS radio program "People's Platform." In 1950, the Israeli Knesset approves a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Israel. In 1964, the 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, is ratified. In 1968, North Korea seizes the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging its crew with being on a spying mission. (The crew is released 11 months later.) In 1985, debate in Britain's House of Lords is carried on live television for the first time. In 1989, surrealist artist Salvador Dali dies in his native Spain at age 84.
January 23, 1981: Allan V. Johnson, executive director of the Ohio Turnpike Commission, says the turnpike is slated to become a free road when its bonds are paid off -- sometime within the next five years -- but if tolls are eliminated, the turnpike will become an intolerable maintenance burden on the Ohio Department of Transportation.
The Labor Department reports that consumer prices increased 12.4 percent in 1980, marking the second straight year of double digit inflation and the highest sustained rate of inflation since the end of World War I.
Mahoning County Commissioners agree to use $300,000 set aside for road and bridge improvements to help offset a "crisis situation" in other county offices, including the prosecutor's office. Prosecutor Vince Gilmartin had threatened to close his office unless additional money was allocated to him.
January 23, 1966: General Motor's Corp.'s new Lordstown plant faces the prospect of operating only a few months this spring and summer, then shutting down while assembly lines are torn down and rearranged for the 1967 models.
Real winter weather arrives in the Mahoning Valley, with 10 inches of snow already on the ground and several more inches expected. Road crews are struggling to keep highways clear and the speed limit on the Ohio Turnpike is reduced to 40 mph.
Enforcement of Youngstown's income tax ordinance is underway with the first 10 of about 200 delinquent taxpayers subpoenaed to appear before tax investigators or face arrest.
January 23, 1956: Temperatures in the Youngstown district skid to as low as -3, the lowest recorded this winter season.
With Youngstown's million-dollar bug racket nearly doubling in two years, The Vindicator launches a series of stories about the families affected by gambling. The first, By staff writer Charles McCarry, tells of a teenage girl and her mother who scrimped and saved for months to buy a dress for the girl's first big dance, only to find that the girl's father took the money from its coffee-can hiding place and gambled it away.
Atty. Robert M. Murphy is appointed to an 8-year term on the Mahoning County Welfare Advisory Board.
January 23, 1931: The U.S. Senate passes an emergency appropriation of $125 million for unemployment and drought relief. As many as 30,000 are expected to get U.S. jobs.
At an enthusiastic rally, 350 volunteers pledge to get 1,500 men and 1,000 boy members for the YMCA in the annual membership campaign.
Police believe a Youngstown officer wounded a bandit in an exchange of gunfire following a robbery at the confectionery store operated by N.A. Jabbour at 720 Hillman St. A plainclothes policeman, R.R. Byerly, walked into the store at the tail end of the hold-up. The bandit escaped with about $250.