Years Ago

Today is Monday, Jan. 17, the 17th day of 2011. There are 348 days left in the year. This is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

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1893: The 19th president of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, dies in Fremont, Ohio, at age 70.

1917: The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.

1950: The Great Brink’s Robbery takes place as seven masked men hold up a Brink’s garage in Boston, stealing $1.2 million in cash and $1.5 million in checks and money orders. (Although the entire 11-member gang is later caught, only part of the loot was recovered.)

1961: President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his farewell address, in which he warns, “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”

1971: The Baltimore Colts defeat the Dallas Cowboys 16-13 in Super Bowl V, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami.

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1986: Speaking at the annual meeting of the Mahoning Valley Association of Churches, the Rev. Charles V. Bergstrom, executive director for government affairs for the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A., takes President Reagan and the Moral Majority to task for mixing religion and government.

The 7th District Court of Appeals rules that the Ungaro administration must return to the city payroll nine of 13 Community Development Agency workers whose jobs were abolished in 1985.

1971: Shootings in separate armed robberies in Trumbull County leave hospitalized Patrolman Ray Huff of Liberty, who was working security at a Lawson Dairy store, and Nick Rogozan, proprietor of Kiefer’s Caf in Warren. Their wounds are not life threatening.

Neale H. Beil, vice president of A.F. Beil Electric, is elected president of the Ohio Chapter of Electrical Contractors.

1961: Larry Wolford, oldest of seven sons of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry B. Wolford of 1702 South Ave., Youngstown, is reported among those lost in the collapse of an Air Force radar tower in the North Atlantic.

Edward J. Hulme, executive assistant of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce, is elected president of the Chesterton Club.

1936: About a third of those who took Youngstown Civil Service exam for clerk fail, while a fifth of those testing for truck driver don’t make the grade.