Years Ago

Today is Monday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2010. There are 340 days left in the year. On this date in 1890, the United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.

In 1759, Scottish poet Robert Burns is born in Alloway. In 1787, Shays’s Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers led by Capt. Daniel Shays fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass. In 1858, Britain’s Princess Victoria, the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, marries Crown Prince Frederick William (the future German Emperor and King of Prussia) at St. James’s Palace. In 1909, the opera “Elektra” by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden, Germany. In 1915, Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service between New York and San Francisco. In 1947, American gangster Al Capone dies in Miami Beach, Fla., at age 48. In 1959, American Airlines begins jet flights between New York and Los Angeles on the Boeing 707. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy holds the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television. In 1971, Charles Manson and three women followers are convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate. In 1990, an Avianca Boeing 707 runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck, Long Island, N.Y.; 73 of the 158 people aboard are killed.

January 25, 1985: CSX Beckett Aviation Corp. is being sold by CSX Corp., a rail and hotel conglomerate, to Aero Service International headquartered at the Teterboro, N.J., airport. Among the services Beckett manages are those at Youngstown Municipal Airport.

General Motors suggests that communities work through their state Department of Development rather than make individual bids for the new Saturn Corp. plant.

Canfield drops its attempt to separate from the township after City Council repeals a secession ordinance at a special meeting.

January 25, 1970: John S. Andrews of Youngstown, longtime leader in the Heart Association of Eastern Ohio, receives the coveted Award of Merit from the American Heart Association during a meeting of directors in New York City.

Youngstown might have to force cars off its streets if the Ohio Air Pollution Control Board enforces the same air quality restrictions on the Mahoning Valley that it has in Cleveland and Cincinnati.

Lake to River Girl Scout Council District 90 will install Ted Geary as neighborhood chairman, the first male to hold such a position in the 20 years since the Boardman council was founded.

Mike DeNiro, a Chaney graduate and football star at Texas A&M, dies when a car in which he was riding lands upside down in a canal near New Orleans. DeNiro, 20 was in New Orleans for the impending wedding of the car’s driver, who faces numerous charges.

January 25, 1960: Twenty-four hours after “Birdman” Otto Standke left town, declaring the buildings he treated to be cured of starlings, hundreds of the screeching dirty birds take off from City Hall and resume their perches on the Hotel Pick-Ohio.

A brick carrying a vicious note crashes though the window of a home at 915 Colby St., after a Negro family moved into the new home in the all-white neighborhood. Rufus Gillam, a Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. employee and father of two sons, including 17-year-old Golden Gloves champion Artis Gillam, says he has no idea who would do such a thing.

The Trumbull County commissioners approve the annexation of the 150 acre Hubbard Estates to the village of Hubbard.

January 25, 1935: The Youngstown Board of Control agrees to build a new police station on the site of the present station and to build a new fire station on the west end of downtown.

Thousands of petitions urging construction of a Beaver-Mahoning canal as part of a federal $4 billion program are delivered to the offices of Ohio Sens. Vic Donahey and Robert J. Bulkley.

Ohio Atty. Gen. John W. Bricker announces that the state’s sales tax will not apply to school lunches because schools are not “venders” under the law.