Today is Thursday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2009. There are 336 days left in the year. On this date

January 29, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2009. There are 336 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 1861, Kansas becomes the 34th state of the Union. In 1919, the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launched Prohibition, is certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk. In 1929, The Seeing Eye, a New Jersey-based school which trains guide dogs to assist the blind, is incorporated by Dorothy Harrison Eustis and Morris Frank. In 1936, the first members of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, are named in Cooperstown, N.Y. In 1939, Irish poet-dramatist William Butler Yeats dies in Menton, France. In 1963, the first members of pro football’s Hall of Fame are named in Canton, Ohio. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter formally welcomes Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations. In 1998, a bomb rocks an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing security guard Robert Sanderson and critically injuring Emily Lyons, a nurse. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, is captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)

January 29, 1984: Ohio Attorney General Anthony Celebrezze says he will keep a closer eye on Trumbull County bingo games in coming months to make sure money goes to charity and not in promoters’ pockets.

U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams takes the position that the open seat for a federal bankruptcy judge belongs to the 17th District. He has arranged meetings in Washington for two candidates, Atty. William T. Bodoh of Youngstown and Municipal Judge Charles Young of Warren.

“Snap the Whip” by Winslow Homer and “Salt Marsh Hay” by Martin Johnson Heade, two works from the collection of the Butler Institute of American Art, are in a traveling exhibition of American Masterpieces that is headed for the Louvre in Paris.

January 29, 1969: A year-long program of community beautification gains the village of Poland an award from the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau.

NVF Co. sweetens its offer to Sharon Steel Corp. shareholders as the battle for control between NVF and management-favored Cyclops Corp. shifts into high gear.

The rise in living costs slowed in December, but the annual rate of inflation in 1968 of 4.7 percent was still the highest in 17 years.

January 29, 1959: Incomplete returns indicate the Mahoning County 1959 Mothers March on Polio is running ahead of last year, with $14,000 already in hand, leaders of the drive announce.

The body of Pfc. Gary L. Balsley, 20, of Salem is found a few hundred yards from where he was washed from an Army truck while aiding in flood rescue operations near Cleveland.

County Judge John Masternick tells Trumbull County commissioners that the facilities provided for the court beneath a bowling alley on N. State Street are unsatisfactory and unless suitable facilities are provided, he will begin holding court in the basement of his home.

January 29, 1934: Six Youngstown men are arrested by federal agents and face charges of selling or forging CWA job slips.

General Motors is negotiating to buy the Corrigan-McKinley Steel Co. of Cleveland of which Newton Steel Co. in Newton Falls is a subsidiary.

Checks are passed out to Youngstown teachers and other employees for a two-week period. The pay was due Dec. 8 and the employees still have five weeks of back pay coming.