Today is Monday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2009. There are 360 days left in the year. On this date in

January 5, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2009. There are 360 days left in the year. On this date in 1896, an Austrian newspaper, Wiener Presse, reports the discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen of a type of radiation that comes to be known as “X-rays.”

In 1809, the Treaty of the Dardanelles, which ends the Anglo-Turkish War, is concluded by the United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire. In 1895, French Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, is publicly stripped of his rank. (He is ultimately vindicated.) In 1925, Nellie T. Ross becomes governor of Wyoming; she is the first female governor in U.S. history. (She succeeds Frank E. Lucas, who had served as acting governor following the death of Ross’ husband, William B. Ross.) In 1933, the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, dies in Northampton, Mass., at age 60. In 1949, in his State of the Union address, President Harry S. Truman labels his administration the Fair Deal.

January 5, 1984: Federal agents seize silencer-equipped submachine guns in an undercover operation in a West Boardman Street parking lot in which a BATF agent posed as a gangster.

Teachers, workshop aides, bus drivers and other employees strike the Fairhaven School and Sheltered Workshops in Trumbull County, forcing students and workshop clients to stay home.

The Liberty Board of Education approves an 8 percent pay raise over two years for teachers, which will increase starting pay from $13,050 in 1983 to $14,114 in 1985.

January 5, 1969: Paul W. Brown, 53, former Youngstown attorney, is sworn in as Ohio’s attorney general, pledging to continue the state’s fight against crime.

The 600 foot transmission tower of WYTV television, Channel 33, settles 15 inches on its cement base after a porcelain insulation that supported the 20-ton structure shattered. The station was off the air most of the day.

Three cars of an Erie Lackawanna Railroad freight train crash through the Taylor-Winfield Corp. in Warren, causing $500,000 in damage to the plant and equipment.

January 5, 1959: Mahoning County commissioners say they intend to cut budget requests sharply and will aim their biggest slashes at the pay raises that are being made by almost every department head in county government.

Presbyterians and United Presbyterians of the Youngstown area begin consolidating into a new Mahoning Presbytery at a meeting in the old First Presbyterian Church, the original Presbyterian congregation in the Western Reserve.

John Palermo is elected chairman of the Mahoning County Commission at its annual reorganization meeting.

January 5, 1934: Miss Elizabeth Harlow leaves for Baltimore to undergo eye surgery, leaving the Glenwood Home, which she had served for 32 years. Trustees of the home vote to close it within two weeks, placing all the children there in private homes.

Dr. George W. Rightmire, president of Ohio State University, dismisses five students for refusing compulsory military training. Action is pending on seven other students who claimed conscientious objection, including Russell Banner of Girard.

A 17-year-old Youngstown boy is arrested by city police in the possession of $120 in counterfeit bills and is turned over to federal agents in Cleveland. The boy said he found the money in a gutter.