Today is Thursday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2008. There are 342 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2008. There are 342 days left in the year. On this date in 1908, the Boy Scouts movement in England is begun under the leadership of Robert Baden-Powell.

In 1848, James W. Marshall discovers a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern California, which leads to the gold rush of ’49. In 1922, Christian K. Nelson of Onawa, Iowa, patents the Eskimo Pie. In 1924, the Russian city of Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad in honor of the late revolutionary leader. (However, it has since been renamed St. Petersburg). In 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill conclude a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco. In 1965, Winston Churchill dies in London at age 90. In 1978, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite, Cosmos 954, plunges through Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrates, scattering radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada.

January 24, 1983: Jane Pauley, co-anchor of the NBC Today show, will be in Youngstown when the show does a broadcast focusing on the town. The show will originate from the press box at Youngstown State University.

Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. arrives in Cleveland for the start of his trial on charges of bribery and tax evasion. “Get a good picture,” Traficant tells television cameramen. mugging for the media.

Youngstown Mayor George Vukovich goes to Washington armed with a “wish list” for government assistance, including federal contracts for at least five major companies in Youngstown.

January 24, 1968: Mahoning County Engineer Samuel Gould Jr. signs a recognition agreement with two labor unions, ending a strike that idled about 160 employees for two days.

A 29-year-old Falls Avenue man is seriously wounded by Youngstown police after they say he fired on them while they were investigating reports of a disturbance on Lakewood Avenue.

Refrigeration engineers say they will begin making ice at the new 17,000 square foot ice rink at the James L. Wick Jr. recreation area in Mill Creek Park.

January 24, 1958: More than 1,000 employees of the G.M. McKelvey Co. gather in Stambaugh Auditorium to celebrate the store’s 75th anniversary. President Charles G. Nichols told the crowd, “We are now on the threshold of the greatest economic growth this country has ever known.”

Dynamiting equipment, teargas and an assortment of guns and rifles are found at the Hill Crest Motel on Route 422, home to two of the three men injured when a car bomb exploded outside a Poland Avenue gambling den.

Book borrowers at the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County in 1957 reached an all-time registration of 68,679, a hike of 30 percent in five years, says Librarian James C. Foutts.

January 24, 1933: Ambulance chasing, laymen practicing law and the record of justices of the peace will be subject to “one of the most far-reaching investigations” in the history of the Mahoning County bar, says Atty. Ralph Thomas.

Four persons, two woman and two men, are dead in separate incidents in Youngstown and Warren in which the men shot the women and then turned the guns on themselves.

Youngstown Councilman J.G. Geltch, 40, a widower with five children, marries Mrs. Olga Grover, 37, a divorcee with four children, in a ceremony in New Castle conducted by Justice of the Peace Gertrude Lanigan.