Today is Friday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2007. There are 346 days left in the year. On this date in 1807, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is born in Westmoreland County, Va.

Today is Friday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2007. There are 346 days left in the year. On this date in 1807, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is born in Westmoreland County, Va.
In 1736, James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, is born in Scotland. In 1809, author Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston. In 1853, Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" premieres in Rome.
January 19, 1982: An expected 17 percent cutback in state appropriations for Ohio colleges and universities will cost Youngstown State University 2.1 million, says Dr. John Coffelt, YSU president.
An explosion believed to have been caused by methane gas blows the cover off an underground Ohio Edison Co. vault on West Federal Street, ripping up pavement and damaging telephone and power lines.
January 19, 1967: A 28-year-old soldier from Louisiana tells police he arrived in Youngstown in the early morning hours and was robbed of 2,000 after three young women invited him into a North Side "cheat joint" for a drink. Bobby Robinson said he had just returned to the United States from a year's tour in Vietnam and came to Youngstown to visit an aunt.
Trumbull County commissioners recommend that 150 acres of the former county home fronting on Mahoning Avenue be earmarked as a branch campus site for Kent State University.
January 19, 1957: Charles "Dog" Jones, 43, bartender and night manager of the Hurricane Lounge at 914 Salt Spring Road, is killed when a thrown knife pierces his chest during a brawl.
Juvenile Court Judge Henry P. Beckenbach says that if a 15-year-old Struthers boy doesn't go to school regularly his parents will go to jail for 30 days.
January 19, 1932: Hugh Hindman, city finance director, is to confer with Leroy Goodwin, police chief, as the result of learning that the police budget for 1932 contains a mysterious increase of 36,000 over the 1931 budget.
Youngstown school board members are attempting to borrow 400,000 to operate the school system. Teachers and other school employees are owed about eight weeks in back pay.