Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2011. There are 342 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1789: Georgetown University is established in present-day Washington, D.C.

1845: Congress decides all national elections will be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

1943: Critic Alexander Woollcott suffers a fatal heart attack during a live broadcast of the CBS radio program “People’s Platform.”

1950: The Israeli Knesset approves a resolution affirming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

1960: The U.S. Navy-operated bathyscaphe Trieste carries two men to the deepest known point in the Pacific Ocean, reaching a depth of more than 35,000 feet.

1961: Word reaches the world that the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria, with some 600 passengers aboard, has been seized in the Caribbean by two dozen hijackers led by Henrique Galvao, an opponent of Portugal’s leader, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. (The drama ends on Feb. 2 with the surrender of the hijackers off Brazil.)

1964: The 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, is ratified.

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1986:Ohio Bell Telephone Co. reaches an agreement with the Niles Chamber of Commerce to provide low-cost, two-way calling between Niles and Youngstown.

The Ungaro administration is mounting an attack on delinquent taxes and other fees, especially those owed by lawyers, doctors, accountants and other professionals.

1971: Mrs. Rosemary Williams tosses her 18-month-old son, Patrick, out the window of their burning home on Oak Lanes and then crawls to safety herself. Both were released after treatment at St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Trumbull County Sheriff Robert Barnett tells county commissioners he will no longer house juvenile offenders in the county jail. Past grand juries have criticized the county for housing younger prisoners in the jail.

1961: Atty. Jesse H. Leighninger, former president of the Mahoning County Bar Association and former county prosecutor, dies in North Side Hospital at the age of 72.

The loss is estimated at $765,000 in a fire that leveled three buildings containing the Stanford Art Pottery Co., East Ohio Machinery Co. and Sebring Container Co. at 15th St. and California Avenue in Sebring.

Fugitive Frank Cypryla, who escaped from Youngstown police and FBI agents five days earlier and who had vowed not to be taken alive, is captured near Massillon after another shoot out in which he was wounded in the leg.

1936: Florence May Bishop, 7, of 2737 Federal Street, dies of burns after her clothes ignited while cooking dinner for her younger brother and sister.

Phil B. Ley is re elected president of the South Side Merchants and Civic Association.