Today is Tuesday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2009. There are 345 days left in the year. On this date

January 20, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2009. There are 345 days left in the year. On this date in 1981, Iran releases 52 Americans it has held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency passes from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

In 1801, Secretary of State John Marshall is nominated by President John Adams to be chief justice of the United States. (He is sworn in on Feb. 4, 1801.) In 1841, the island of Hong Kong is ceded by China to Great Britain. (It returns to Chinese control in July 1997.) In 1887, the U.S. Senate approves an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base. In 1936, Britain’s King George V dies (his demise having been hastened by his physician); he is succeeded by Edward VIII. In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first chief executive to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 instead of March 4. In 1942, Nazi officials hold the notorious Wannsee conference, during which they arrive at their “final solution” that calls for exterminating Jews. In 1949, President Harry S. Truman is sworn in for a second term of office. In his inaugural address, Truman brands communism a “false philosophy” as he outlines his program for U.S. world leadership. In 1989, George H.W. Bush is sworn in as the 41st president of the United States.

January 20, 1984: Gov. Richard Celeste visits Youngstown and meets with Mayor Patrick Ungaro, other local officials and citizens. He signs a proclamation declaring Youngstown State Capital for a Day.

Theater Producer Frank Kenley meets with Warren city and Trumbull County officials to discuss a plan to return summer stock theater to the Packard Music Hall.

January 20, 1969: Lykes Corp., biggest shareholder of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., will oppose that company’s merger with Avnet Inc. and will continue its battle to gain control of Sheet & Tube.

Richard Milhous Nixon, shielded by bulletproof glass and the tightest security ever devised for an inauguration, takes the oath as 37th president of the United States.

Frank Bryer of Cuyahoga Falls is installed as commander of the China-Burma-India Veterans of the Mahoning Valley in the Youngstown home of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Lesmansky.

January 20, 1959: The Mahoning County Democratic Party endorses Mayor Frank X. Kryzan for re-election to a fourth two-year term as mayor of Youngstown and endorses Martin Joyce and Don L. Hanni for municipal judgeships.

An enriched program for junior and senior high school pupils is adopted by the Youngstown Board of Education About 400 pupils are expected to enroll.

Republic Steel Corp.’s Youngstown steel plant is lighting two more open hearth furnaces at once, says district Manager John H. Graft. About 100 employees will be recalled.

January 20, 1934: A deposition read during the trial of Fred A. LaBelle, who is accused of embezzling from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District, says his mother, Wilhelmina Wittigschlager of Bremen, Germany, gave him more than $61,000 in currency over a period of years.

The plan to collect delinquent taxes through a state agency is met with skepticism by local tax men. Mahoning County has more than $11 million in delinquent taxes and special assessments.

B.W. Stewart, superintendent of South Side Hospital, says extensive repairs must be made to the hospital during 1934 if it is to be able to continue serving the public.