Years Ago

Today is Friday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2011. There are 351 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1784: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England, ending the Revolutionary War.

1858: Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, and his wife, Empress Eugenie, escape an assassination attempt led by Italian revolutionary Felice Orsini, who is later captured and executed.

1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle open a wartime conference in Casablanca.

1953: Josip Broz Tito is elected president of Yugoslavia by the country’s Parliament.

1963: George C. Wallace is sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of “segregation forever.”

1969: Twenty-seven people aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, off Hawaii, are killed when a rocket warhead explodes, setting off a fire and additional explosions.

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1986: A memorial service is held in the Ohio Room of Kilcawley Center for Gina Tenney, a 19-year-old YSU student who was murdered Dec. 30. Two Youngstown men have been charged with receiving stolen property, which was taken from her apartment.

U.S. Rep. Thomas Kindness, a Republican from Hamilton who has announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, will be the main speaker at the 71st annual banquet of the Mahoning Valley McKinley Club.

1971: A 47-year-old Penn Avenue man is sentenced to 41 years to life in the Ohio Penitentiary on three drug charges, one of them for administering drugs to a minor.

Youngstown cuts its allocation to Civil Defense by 75 percent pending evidence that fallout shelters have been improved.

Kenneth Garloch of Boardman, a trooper at the Canfield Post of the Ohio Highway Patrol, is promoted to sergeant.

1961: A flash fire kills all six members of the Palen family at 19 Fifth St. in Campbell. Dead are Henry Palen, 44; Rose, 38, and their children, Michael, 14; Debra, 8; Jerry, 4, and Carol Ann, 3.

Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper of Iowa will speak at the 46th annual banquet of the Mahoning Valley McKinley Club at the McKinley Memorial in Niles.

Paul Shields, an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State University and a graduate of Youngstown University, establishes the Paul E. Shields scholars loan fund at Youngstown University.

1936: Henry Roemer, president of Sharon Steel Hoop Co., is elected president and a director of Pittsburgh Steel Co. in which Sharon Hoop acquired a substantial interest.

Two Ohio state examiners are investigating allegations of padded contracts by former Mayor Mark Moore’s administration.