Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 26, the 26th day of 2010. There are 339 days left in the year. On this date in 1950, India officially proclaims itself a republic as Rajendra Prasad takes the oath of office as president.
In 1837, Michigan becomes the 26th state. In 1841, Britain formally occupies Hong Kong, which the Chinese had ceded to the British. In 1861, Louisiana secedes from the Union. In 1870, Virginia rejoins the Union. In 1925, actor Paul Newman is born in Shaker Heights, Ohio. In 1942, the first American expeditionary force to go to Europe during World War II goes ashore in Northern Ireland. In 1960, National Football League team owners choose Pete Rozelle to be the new commissioner, succeeding the late Bert Bell. In 1962, the United States launches Ranger 3 to land scientific instruments on the moon — but the probe misses its target by more than 22,000 miles. In 1979, former Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller dies in New York at age 70.
January 26, 1985: Packard Electric Division of General Motors is hiring the first 385 new employees under an innovative new local contract with the electrical workers union.
The Mahoning Valley Economic Development Corp. launches its railroad, the Economic Development Rail Corp., to operate a 2.75-mile line that was formerly the Youngstown and Austintown Railroad.
A snow emergency is declared in Youngstown as another Canadian storm sweeps through the area, dumping nearly 5 inches of new snow on roads and snarling rush hour traffic.
January 26, 1970: Three Catholic elementary schools in Columbiana County will close at the end of the school year, affecting more than 200 pupils at St. Patrick’s Leetonia; Our Lady of Lourdes, East Palestine, and Immaculate Conception, Wellsville.
Warren police arrest a 21-year-old Porter Street man after a high speed chase that began when he fled from a traffic stop. Patrolman Ronald Dawson fired five shots at the fleeing car during the chase, which eventually ended with a spin-out at the Village Shopping Center in Niles.
January 26, 1960: A blast from two or three sticks of dynamite rocks the Croatian Fraternal Union Club at North Road and Route 4 southeast of Warren. Six patrons, a waitress, a bartender, the manager and a deputy sheriff were in the club, but no one was injured.
Republic Steel Corp. announces earnings of $53 million or $3.43 a share on sales of slightly more than $1 billion. The company made more steel in 1959 than a year earlier, but reported lower earnings.
January 26, 1935: The Interior Department negotiates to purchase an additional 12 tracts of land for the Youngstown subsistence homesteads project. Ten tracts have already been purchased, including six acres bought from Della Walker on Walker Mill Road, which will provide lots for six homes.
Smoke will be pouring from three open hearth stacks at the Brier Hill plant of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. for the first time since June 1931 as maintenance and repair crews begin to “burn bottom” in the long-idle furnaces.