Today is Saturday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2007. There are 345 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2007. There are 345 days left in the year. On this date in 1981, Iran releases 52 Americans it had held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.
In 1801, Secretary of State John Marshall is nominated by President Adams to be chief justice of the United States (he is sworn in on Feb. 4, 1801). In 1841, the island of Hong Kong is ceded by China to Great Britain. (It returns to Chinese control in July 1997.) In 1887, the U.S. Senate approves an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base. In 1936, Britain's King George V dies; he is succeeded by Edward VIII. In 1937, President Roosevelt becomes the first chief executive to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 instead of March 4. In 1942, Nazi officials hold the notorious Wannsee conference, during which they arrive at their "final solution" that calls for exterminating Jews. In 1945, President Roosevelt is sworn into office for an unprecedented fourth term. In 1957, President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon are sworn in for their second terms of office in a private Sunday ceremony (a public ceremony is held the next day). In 1986, the United States observes the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. In 1986, Britain and France announce plans to build the Channel Tunnel.
January 20, 1982: Youngstown public schools, already facing a probable deficit at the end of the year, may lose 3 million in state funds as a result of proposed cutbacks in state education appropriations.
A White House spokesman says President Reagan "misspoke himself" when he said a million more Americans are employed as were employed in 1980. Actually about a half million jobs were lost during the first year of his presidency.
The Ohio Supreme Court rules that the Youngstown Civil Service Commission should hear the appeals of city employees whose work hours were reduced for two months in 1980 because of a shortfall in the city's general fund.
January 20, 1967: A countywide drive to raise the 150,000 local share of the cost of a Kent State University branch campus near Warren is opening in Trumbull County.
Youngstown detectives arrest two women and recover most of the 2,000 taken from a 28-year-old Louisiana soldier who returned from Vietnam to Youngstown, where he was visiting an aunt. The soldier was relieved of his wallet after he accompanied the women to a North Side "cheat spot."
Valley Mould & amp; Iron Corp. is weighing construction of a new 10 million plant for exclusive production of king-sized moulds for the steel industry.
January 20, 1957: The Youngstown steel district, the nation's fourth largest producing district, has added 443,620 tons of additional capacity, bringing it to a capacity of 11.8 million tons, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute.
Youngstown Librarian James C. Foutts reports that more readers used the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County in 1956 than since 1932, in the depth of the Depression. Foutts reported 1,092,866 books were loaned during the year, compared to 1,194,140 in 1932.
Mayor Frank X. Kryzan will meet with a team representing the Air Force and Army Corps of Engineers in the mayor's effort to increase substantially the 625 a month rent paid to the city by the Air Force for use of the Youngstown Municipal Airport.
January 20, 1932: Evangelist Billy Sunday arrives in Youngstown for a two-day visit, telling about 50 people at a dinner at the YMCA that "America needs a revival of the old-fashioned religion. The church never was at such a low spiritual ebb in 100 years as it is today."
Common Pleas Judge David Jenkins orders Youngstown Mayor Mark Moore to restore Lionel Evans as park commissioner and Edward C. Schroeder as chief of the sanitary police. The judge's ruling is expected to cause other employees fired by Moore after he took office to file similar suits.