Today is Saturday, Jan. 26, the 26th day of 2008. There are 340 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Saturday, Jan. 26, the 26th day of 2008. There are 340 days left in the year. On this date in 1788, the first European settlers in Australia, led by Capt. Arthur Phillip, land in present-day Sydney.
In 1841, Britain formally occupies Hong Kong, which the Chinese had ceded to the British. In 1861, Louisiana secedes from the Union. In 1870, Virginia rejoins the Union. In 1942, the first American expeditionary force to go to Europe during World War II goes ashore in Northern Ireland. In 1950, India officially proclaims itself a republic as Rajendra Prasad takes the oath of office as president. In 1962, the United States launches Ranger III to land scientific instruments on the moon — but the probe misses its target by more than 22,000 miles. In 1979, former Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller dies in New York at age 70. In 1988, Australians celebrate the 200th anniversary of their country as a grand parade of tall ships re-enacts the voyage of the first European settlers.
January 26, 1983: More than $165,000 was paid to city employees in 1982 for accrued vacation time, including $2,999 to Mayor George Vukovich, who was one of 111 employees who opted for dollars instead of time off.
Lawyers for Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. drop their motion to have a handwritten confession barred from introduction after a handwriting expert from Washington issues a report saying the document is authentic. Atty. Mark S. Gervelis says Traficant is not conceding that the confession is authentic.
Joe Hudak, a laid-off steelworker who took advantage of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act programs to earn a degree in electronics, is interviewed by Jane Pauley on the “Today” show during the program’s broadcast from Youngstown.
January 26, 1968: A new restaurant will open in McKelvey’s Parkade downtown. Lum’s, a Miami based chain restaurant, offers hot dogs, a full sandwich menu and 26 kinds of domestic and imported beers.
“Black rain” discolors and spots 60 houses on Struthers’ North Side. Councilman William Murphy, chairman of the Struthers Smoke Abatement Committee, will ask council to take action.
Jobs are the real remedy for social ills and matching jobs to workers and workers to jobs is important, says Gov. James A. Rhodes during a visit to Youngstown.
Austintown teachers may lose most of the salary boosts they gained in August because of a $382,000 error in calculating anticipated state revenue. Teachers had been given raises ranging from $400 to $1,200 a year,
January 26, 1958: The Erie Railroad’s No. 626 and the Erie-Lackawanna No. 26, a combination freight and passenger train from Cleveland to Pittsburgh by way of Youngstown, makes its last run through Youngstown. More than 100 passengers made the last run.
Jean Casadesus, the brilliant French pianist, will be the guest artist with the Youngstown Philharmonic at Stambaugh Auditorium.
Coach Dom Rosselli’s Youngstown University Penguins break their Baldwin-Wallace jinx with a 70-59 victory over the Yellow Jackets at Berea.
January 26, 1933: A $1 million order for 210 miles of eight-inch electric-weld pipe is received by Republic Steel Corp. from the Phillips Petroleum Co.
A poker party in a downtown Salem apartment ends with a 30-year-old Salem woman shot to death. Dead is Edith Jacobs. Police in Ohio and Pennsylvania are searching for the sweetheart, James Johnson.