Today is Tuesday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2008. There are 337 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2008. There are 337 days left in the year. On this date in 1820, Britain’s King George III dies at Windsor Castle, ending a reign that had seen both the American and French revolutions.

In 1843, the 25th president of the United States, William McKinley, is born in Niles, Ohio. In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” is first published, in the New York Evening Mirror. In 1850, Henry Clay introduces in the Senate compromise proposals on slavery. In 1861, Kansas becomes the 34th state of the Union. In 1936, the first members of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.

January 29, 1983: Warren police are searching for two young thieves who stole a car with a 3-year-old boy in the backseat. The boy, Jo Jo Werner, was dropped off unharmed on Oak Knoll Avenue N.E. and was found by passersby.

The Youngstown Board of Education and the Youngstown Education Association will conduct nonstop weekend negotiations to hammer out a new contract before the old one expires.

More than 400 people gather at ITAM Post to honor Judge John J. Lynch, who retired from the 7th District Court of Appeals, ending a law career of 40 years. Frank D. Celebrezze, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, is the guest speaker.

January 29, 1968: President Johnson’s budget will contain $400,000 for Youngtown’s Crab Creek flood control project.

The Village of Canfield is judged one of the top 10 winners in the third consecutive year in the national “cleanest town” contest sponsored by the National Clean-Up, Paint-Up, Fix-up Bureau.

January 29, 1958: Mary Geraldine Holman, sneaks out of the Republic Café at 1291 Poland Ave. and calls police to report a robbery in progress. Police arrive in time to arrest a 42-year-old Poland Avenue man who used a barber’s scissors to threaten Miss Holman. He is also suspected in a burglary at a nearby barber shop.

The construction of a Chevrolet car and truck assembly plant at Lordstown has been postponed until such time as the annual demand for 8 million cars arrives, says Edward Cole, general manager of the Chevrolet Division of General Motors. About 6 million cars were sold in 1957.

Seven people are found guilty in U.S. District Court in Cleveland of violating the Taft-Hartley act by filing false affidavits declaring that they were not Communists.

January 29, 1933: Mahoning County Auditor John Arnold says the total of unpaid real estate taxes rose from $1.7 million at the end of 1931 to $3.6 million at the end of 1932, an increase of 110 percent.

The Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus, under the direction of Serge Janoff, presents a Monday Musical Club concert at Stambaugh Auditorium that provided the best demonstration of male chorus singing the city has ever seen.

The National Consumers League meeting in Boston drafts federal legislation that would establish a minimum wage in all 48 states.