Today is Saturday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2009. There are 355 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2009. There are 355 days left in the year. On this date in 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously publishes his influential pamphlet, “Common Sense.”

In 1810, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, divorces his wife, Josephine. In 1861, Florida secedes from the Union. In 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil. In 1920, the League of Nations is established as the Treaty of Versailles goes into effect. In 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations convenes in London. In 1957, Harold Macmillan becomes prime minister of Britain, following the resignation of Anthony Eden. In 1967, Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first black elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, takes his seat.

January 10, 1984: William and Kathleen Lundeen of Clingan Road, Poland, win Ohio’s $5 million Lotto, the second largest jackpot in the game’s history. After taxes, they will receive $200,297 a year for 20 years. Lundeen used a combination of family birth dates and guess to pick the winners, 19, 27, 28, 33, 39 and 40.

The Niles Board of Education approves a resolution to dissolve the Lordstown Vocational Compact, replacing it with a joint vocational school district that would operate the Gordon D. James Career Center.

The Ohio Board of Education is discussing an increase in the minimum grade point average for students to participate in sports from 0.6 on a 4 point scale to 2.0. The lower scale allows a student with three Ds and an F to remain eligible for extracurricular activities.

January 10, 1969: Losses in tax revenue because of a drop in Youngstown’s real estate valuation is causing a headache for city fathers as they attempt to balance the general fund budget.

WYTV (Channel 33) will not return to the air until its 600-foot transmission tower is ruled safe to withstand 100 mph winds, which could be a matter of days.

A research team at The Ohio State University is working on a fully automatic highway system under which cars would travel in a stream under automatic control.

January 10, 1959: Ohio Atty. Gen. William Saxbe urges the Ohio Supreme Court to “get on” with removal proceedings against Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Frank R. Franko, following the judge’s suspension as an attorney on charges of unethical conduct brought by the Mahoning County bar Association.

The building that once housed the old Cameo Theater at 329 W. Federal St. is scheduled to be razed to make way for a parking lot. It houses the Kirby Shoe Store, which is holding a going out of business sale after losing its lease.

January 10, 1934: Some 120 men sent home by CWA Foreman Eugene Callan for Communistic activities are back on the job and County Relief Director Ray Noble tells Callan that men cannot be barred from work for their political sympathies.

Two new spike machines with a capacity of 1,000 tons of railroad spikes a month are in operation at the Struthers plant of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and expansion of the electric welding pipe plant at the Brier Hill plant, to cost $500,000, is announced by President Frank Purnell.