Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2011. There are 361 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1821: The first native-born American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, dies in Emmitsburg, Md.

1896: Utah is admitted as the 45th state.

1904: The Supreme Court, in Gonzalez v. Williams, rules that Puerto Ricans are not aliens and can enter the United States freely; however, the court stops short of declaring them U.S. citizens.

1948: Burma (now called Myanmar) becomes independent of British rule.

1951: During the Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces recapture the city of Seoul.

1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson outlines the goals of his “Great Society” in his State of the Union Address.

1974: President Richard M. Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

2007: Nancy Pelosi is elected the first female speaker of the House as Democrats take control of Congress.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: Youngstown Municipal Judge Louis K. Levy administers the oath to seven Youngstown Police Department cadets: Zaida Miranda, James E. Thomas, William J. Bailey, Van R. Copeland, Robert C. Gump, Michael D. Walker and Thomas A. Featsent. Sworn in as a clerk is Carmen Torres.

A South Side woman, Geneva Broomfield, dies in a fire at her Oak Hill Avenue home.

The Rev. John Shumaker is named rector of St. Rocco’s Episcopal Church, 239 Trumbull Avenue, Liberty.

1971: Police believe a series of narcotics thefts from area pharmacies is being triggered by raids in November that resulted in the arrest of 24 people for sales or possession of narcotics, which shut off 99 percent of the hard drug supply in the area.

Five Boardman teenagers are arrested about 20 minutes after the statue of the infant Jesus disappeared from Central Square and following a police chase up Market Street. One youth said they threw the statue off the Market Street Bridge.

John Angelo, Youngstown Teamsters boss; Mike Boano, local head of FASH, and eight others indicted in the 1969 Stop 5 rioting, are fined and given multiple suspended jail terms by Common Pleas Judge Elwyn V. Jenkins.

1961: Warren P. Williamson Jr., president of WKBN Broadcasting Co. and civic leader, begins his 12th year as president of the Youngstown Board of Education following his re-election.

“All number calling” with seven numerals and no exchange letters will be introduced in Youngstown March 1, says Walter S. Sparling, president of Ohio Bell Telephone Co.

U.S. House Democrats pay tribute to Rep. Michael J. Kirwan for his work on behalf of the party’s congressional candidates in the November 1960 elections.

1936: A cross section of Youngstowners interviewed after President Roosevelt’s State of the Union, which was broadcast by radio, said the address was good or very good, but Dr. L.H. Black disagreed: “I think any schoolboy could have done better. There was nothing constructive in it.”

Berry Hubbard Hill, 42, prominent Negro attorney, dies of pneumonia in St. Elizabeth Hospital 15 days after Mayor Lionel Evans named him assistant police prosecutor.