Friday, January 29, 2010
Today is Friday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2010. There are 336 days left in the year. On this date 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 1919, the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launches Prohibition, is certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk. In 1936, the first members of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, are named in Cooperstown, N.Y. 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 at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., kills security guard Robert Sanderson and critically injures nurse Emily Lyons. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, is captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)
January 29, 1985: Two of three Trumbull County commissioners back a half-percent piggyback sales tax for the county, Art Magee and Thomas R. Batting. Commissioner Anthony Latell opposes it.
George H. Kelley, a Vindicator reporter and editor for 63 years, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center, at the age of 80. He began working at The Vindicator during summers after graduating from Rayen School and while attending the University of Notre Dame.
January 29, 1970: Atty. Gen. Paul Brown, candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, speaking at a $100-a-plate dinner in Youngstown, proposes a council of scholars to work against air and water pollution.
New European style formal uniforms for guards at President Nixon’s White House are unveiled to generally unfavorable reviews. The cream colored tunics with gold nylon trim cost $95 each and have been ordered for 100 guards.
January 29, 1960: A mandatory jail provision in the penal section of the state traffic code may block plans of Youngstown Municipal Court judges to introduce a probation system for serious traffic violators, including drunken driving.
Mayor Frank R. Franko orders police protection for a Negro family on the city’s East Side after a brick is thrown through the home’s window and a bullet is received in the mail. The family moved into the new $21,000 home in a predominantly white neighborhood.
January 29, 1935: John G. Cooper responds to what he characterized as an “untruthful and scurrilous charge” that Cooper is not a U.S. citizen by instructing his lawyer, William A. Mason, to introduce the naturalization papers of his father into the record during a deposition in the suit brought by defeated candidate Locke Miller challenging Cooper’s election.