Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2010. There are 360 days left in the year. On this date in 1925, Nellie T. Ross becomes governor of Wyoming; she is the first female governor in U.S. history. (She succeeded Frank E. Lucas, who had served as acting governor following the death of Ross’ husband, William B. Ross.)

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 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 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. In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposes assistance to countries to help them resist Communist aggression; this becomes known as the Eisenhower Doctrine. In 1970, Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, is found murdered with his wife and daughter at their Clarksville, Pa., home. (UMWA President Tony Boyle and seven others are convicted or enter guilty pleas in the killings.) The soap opera “All My Children” premieres on ABC-TV. In 1994, Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, dies in Boston at age 81. In 1998, Sonny Bono, the 1960’s pop star-turned-politician, is killed when he strikes a tree while skiing at the Heavenly Ski Resort on the Nevada-California state line; he was 62.

January 5, 1985: A member of the Cleveland Police SWAT team shoots and critically wounds a woman who was holding four hostages aboard a Pan American World Airways jet at Hopkins International Airport.

The Ohio Supreme Court issues a landmark ruling that expands the scope of the workers compensation and overturns 40 years of high court decisions in a 6-1 decision that makes workers who gradually sustain injuries on the job eligible for compensation. The case involved a Southington man who worked as a battery installer on the Lordstown assembly line.

The Rev. John Theodore Karabatsos, a native of Greece, is named pastor of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church on Walnut Street.

January 5, 1970: The Erie Lackawanna Railway’s Lake Cities Express pulls out of Youngstown for Chicago on its last run unless a court intervenes.

Youngstown Municipal Airport has one of its biggest traffic jams when an estimated 1,500 arriving and departing passengers crowd the terminal on the Sunday after New Year’s Day.

Mayor Jack C. Hunter promises full cooperation for the entire community in an address to the 17th annual senior citizens banquet of the Buckeye Elks Lodge 73.

January 5, 1960: A Warren area man is killed and his two companions, one believed to be a fugitive wanted for armed robbery in Columbiana County, are captured at Dixon, Ill., after a gun battle that erupted when police stopped a car for a traffic violation.

Ohio Gov. Michael DiSalle will seek the role of Ohio favorite son at the Democratic National Convention, pledged to support John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts for the presidential nomination.

Swedish heavyweight Ingomar Johansson, who kayoed Floyd Patterson to win the title, is named the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year.

January 5, 1935: Domino Found-ries Co. Ltd. of Hamilton, Ont., places an order for a 209-inch Steckel type cold rolling mill.

James McGlynn, 62, of 635 Elm St. is Youngstown’s first traffic fatality of the new year. McGlynn was dazed when struck by an auto at Wood and Elm streets and then staggered into the path of a second car that struck him and sped away.

The Youngstown Kiwanis Club pauses to pay parting tribute to 1934’s president, Russell Bailey, at a ball at Hotel Ohio, attended by about 150 Kiwanians, their wives and guests.