Today is Tuesday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2008. There are 358 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2008. There are 358 days left in the year. On this date in 1935, rock ’n’ roll legend Elvis Presley is born in Tupelo, Miss.

In 1798, the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is declared in effect by President John Adams nearly three years after its ratification by the states; it prohibits a citizen of one state from suing another state in federal court. In 1815, U.S. forces led by Gen. Andrew Jackson defeat the British in the Battle of New Orleans — the closing engagement of the War of 1812. In 1918, Mississippi becomes the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which establishes Prohibition. In 1959, Charles de Gaulle is inaugurated as president of France’s Fifth Republic. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declares a “War on Poverty” in his State of the Union address. In 1965, the Star of India and other stolen gems are returned to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1973, the Paris peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam resume.

January 8, 1983: The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge demands that vending machines owned by Joseph Naples Jr.’s Youngstown United Music Inc. be removed from police headquarters. Mayor George Vukovich says Naples’ name does not appear on city contracts.

Mark Gervelis of Conneaut, a lawyer for Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr., will ask a federal judge to prohibit tape-recorded conversations between Traficant and reputed mob figures from being used as evidence in the sheriff’s upcoming trial.

U.S. Rep. Thomas A. Luken, D-Ohio, introduces a bill to extend GI Bill education benefits for Vietnam veterans for an additional 10 years.

January 8, 1968: The mercury plunges to 13 below zero in Youngstown setting a record low. At least two are dead and there is no sign of a break in the cold front.

After voters reject a levy for Youngstown schools three times, athletic directors at South, East, Woodrow Wilson and North announce they have canceled their spring sports schedules. Chaney will have a reduced schedule and Rayen intends to have a full program.

The Youngstown Post Office is back in the stamp business after receiving a shipment of 250,000 one-cent stamp and two million six-cent stamps. Stamps were in short supply as the new first-class rate went into effect.

January 8, 1958: A warrant is issued for the arrest of missing 6th Ward Councilman John Tobin charging him with violation of banking laws.

Two armed bandits, one carrying a sawed-off shotgun, hold five people at bay at the Wickliffe Isaly Dairy Store and escape with at least $400.

The New York Times reports that President Eisenhower’s farm at Gerrysburg, Pa., received soil-bank payments of $2,009 for not growing wheat and corn in the past two years.

January 8, 1933: Youngstown fireman wrapped in wet blankets and volunteers equipped with buckets save seven buildings on the Isaly Dairy milk farm near North Jackson. A 10-room farm house is destroyed, but 73 pure bred cows are led from imperiled buildings.

The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce mortgage and loan committee is developing plans to offer help and advice to the individual who has a mortgage on his home and is danger of losing it because of a lack of work and money.

Sir Hubert Wilkins, noted polar explorer, inaugurates one-day passenger flights from New York to Miami, Fla. The plane took off at 8 a.m. in New York and arrived in Miami at 10:30 p.m.