Today is Thursday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2008. There are 356 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2008. There are 356 days left in the year. On this date in 1776, Thomas Paine publishes his influential pamphlet, “Common Sense.”

In 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil. In 1920, the League of Nations is established as the Treaty of Versailles goes into effect. In 1946, the first manmade contact with the moon is made as radar signals transmitted by the U.S. Army Signal Corps are bounced off the lunar surface. In 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations convenes in London. In 1947, the musical fantasy “Finian’s Rainbow,” with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, opens on Broadway. In 1957, Harold Macmillan becomes prime minister of Britain, following the resignation of Anthony Eden. In 1967, Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first black elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, takes his seat. In 1978, the Soviet Union launches two cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz 27 capsule for a rendezvous with the Salyut 6 space laboratory.

January 10, 1983: Richard Celeste is sworn in as Ohio’s 64th governor and the 45-year-old Democrat asks Ohioans to join him to “ease today’s shared pain of joblessness.”

Joseph C. Weatherly, 35, is injured when his small experimental airplane crashes while doing touch and go landings at Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Public Utilities Commission Chairman Jon F. Kelly and his Republican colleague, Dennis S. Pines, submitted their requested resignations to Gov. Richard Celeste. The Democratic board member, Michael Del Bane of Hubbard, says he is not inclined to resign.

January 10, 1968: Youngstown State University trustees vote to establish a two-year technical college within the university framework.

Louisville Cement Co. announces its intent to purchase the Bessemer Cement Co., a division of Diamond Shamrock Corp., for more than $20 million.

After a European vacation with his German-born wife, Dr. Sam Sheppard returns to his Bay Village home and announces his intention to resume the practice of medicine for the first time since his wife, Marilyn, was murdered.

January 10, 1958: Mahoning County registers it first traffic fatality of 1958 when Charles Sinn, an 86-year-old retired North Jackson farmer, dies after being struck by a car in Route 18 near Route 45.

Frank B. Warren, president of Bessemer Limestone Co., is elected president of the Youngstown Community Chest, succeeding Atty. David E. Jones.

A.S. Glossbrenner, president of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., believes the letdown in business will be rather short-lived and that business will soon be on the upswing.

January 10, 1933: Mahoning Valley leaders speak in Washington in support of a modified canal project that would give area mills access to water transportation.

Three armed bandits hold up Bittner’s Drug Store in Struthers, binding and gagging two attendants and holding five customers at bay. They escape with $100 in cash and jewelry from a showcase.

Calvin Coolidge’s will leaves his entire estate, estimated at $250,000 to $500,000, to his widow, Grace Goodhue Coolidge.