Today is Tuesday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2009. There are 359 days left in the year. On this date

January 6, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2009. There are 359 days left in the year. On this date in 1838, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail give the first successful public demonstration of their telegraph, in Morristown, N.J.

In 1759, George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis are married in New Kent County, Va. In 1912, New Mexico becomes the 47th state. In 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, dies in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlines a goal of “Four Freedoms”: Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear. In 1945, George Herbert Walker Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye, N.Y. In 1967, U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Deckhouse Five, an offensive in the Mekong River delta. In 1994, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the leg by an assailant at Cobo Arena in Detroit; four men, including Jeff Gillooly, ex-husband of Kerrigan’s rival, Tonya Harding, are later sentenced to prison for their roles in the attack. Harding denies advance knowledge of the attack.

January 6, 1984: Unemployment is reported at 14 percent in Mahoning County and 13.87 percent in Trumbull County, a slight increase, while the national rate fell from a post-Depression high of 10.7 percent to 8.2 percent.

Flames destroy the Lee Run Golf Course pro shop and an adjoining restaurant in Coitsville Township. The loss is estimated at between $400,000 and $500,000.

Niles’ new mayor, John P. Shaffer, dismisses five city labor pool employees hired during the waning months of the Cicero administration.

January 6, 1969: A group of Mahoning Valley Vocational School students are questioned for several hours then returned to the school after Mahoning County deputy sheriffs are unable to learn who tossed a firecracker in a Greyhound bus en route to Youngstown from Akron. School officials say they will pursue their own investigation.

Rates for private duty nurses have been increased to $309 per day for registered nurses and $22.50 for licensed practical nurses, a $5 increase for registered nurses and $3.25 for LPNs.

January 6, 1959: The cost of remodeling the inside of the Mahoning County Courthouse was estimated at $505,000, but commissioners order that plans be drawn up for $375,000 of the work over three years.

Backers of Democratic Gov.-elect Michael V. DiSalle’ jam through legislation in an emergency bill that will raise the salaries of all but two members of his cabinet.

An unemployed father of six children charged with nonsupport breaks away from a detective and flees Youngstown Municipal Court after Municipal Judge Frank R. Franko sentences him to 90 days in jail.

January 6, 1934: Five bandits in a stolen automobile exchange about 15 shots with two deputy sheriffs in a running gun battle that ended when the bandits abandoned their car at Center Street hill and escaped into nearby woods. The robbers held up many motorists in Poland and Boardman, including Edwin Isaly, who they stopped in Tippecanoe Road.

Columbus area ministers come to the support of five students who have refused compulsory military training at Ohio State University. Russell Banner of Girard, one of a second group of conscientious objector students, says he will submit to the prescribed military training rather than leave the university.