Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2011. There are 353 days left in the year.

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1773: The first public museum in America is organized, in Charleston, S.C.

1915: The U.S. House of Representatives rejects, 204-174, a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.

1932: Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, after serving out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus.

1948: The Supreme Court rules that state law schools cannot discriminate against applicants on the basis of race.

1966: President Lyndon B. Johnson says in his State of the Union address that the U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.

1969: The New York Jets of the American Football League upset the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League 16-7 in Super Bowl III at the Orange Bowl in Miami.

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1986: Thirley Starks, wife and council aide of Youngstown City Councilman Herman “Pete” Starks, applies for payment of 39 weeks of vacation time that she says she has not used dating to 1976. Elizabeth Hughey, wife of Councilman Richard Hughey, says she is owed nine weeks vacation pay for the last three years.

The new $4 million Autumn Hills Care Center is rising from the rubble of its original building which was destroyed by the May 1985 tornado.

1971: A 20-year-old North Side man is wounded by police gunfire when police say he failed to heed repeated warnings to stop and jumped from the window of a Crandall Avenue house that was being burglarized.

Local United Appeal agencies will have 9.2 percent less money for operations under a $1.6 million budget approved by the Community Corp.’s executive committee.

1961: Don L. Shaw, 66, of Hotel Pick-Ohio, considered Youngstown’s most widely traveled man, dies of a heart attack in a Hoboken N.J., hotel room as he was preparing to embark on a six-month world cruise. He had visited most of the countries in the world while circling the globe 20 times.

The Ohio Supreme Court rules that Ohio Secretary of State Ted W. Brown must appoint Jack Sulligan, the Democratic Party choice, to the Mahoning County Board of Elections or show reason why not.

Senate liberals are rebuffed in efforts to weaken the filibuster by a 50-46 vote, with 32 Democrats and 18 Republicans voting for it and 31 Democrats and 15 Republicans voting against.

1936: The Lionel Evans administration says it has found evidence of “deals” made by the previous administration in which Youngstown paid favored contractors for doing little work, sometimes splitting contracts to keep them below the $500 threshold that would require competitive bids.

Anthony Kaczowa is installed as president of the Free Polish Krakusy Society in ceremonies at the Krakusy Hall on Franklin Avenue.