Years Ago

Today is Monday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2011. There are 341 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1848: James W. Marshall discovers a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern California, a discovery that leads to the gold rush of ’49.

1908: The Boy Scouts movement begins in England under the aegis of Robert Baden-Powell.

1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill conclude a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.

1961: A U.S. Air Force B-52 breaks up and crashes near Goldsboro, N.C., dropping its payload of two nuclear bombs, neither of which goes off; three of the eight crew members are killed.

1965: Winston Churchill dies in London at age 90.

1978: A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite, Cosmos 954, plunges through Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrates, scattering radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada.

1986: The Voyager 2 space probe sweeps past Uranus, coming within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet of the solar system.

2003: Tom Ridge is sworn in as the first head of the new Department of Homeland Security.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: A Warren Western Reserve High School student testifies that he saw Danny Lee Hill and Timothy Combs emerge from the wooded area in which Raymond Fife was assaulted and left for dead.

The United Steelworkers of America files an appeal in the 6th District Court seeking to overturn a ruling by Youngstown Bankruptcy judge William Bodoh that allowed the sale of Van Huffel Tube Corp. in Warren.

1971: Ohio Edison Co.’s proposal to drop steam heat service in downtown Youngstown could shift a multimillion dollar burden on downtown business establishments, churches and hotels.

Stephen J. Callos, a Chaney High School senior, is selected to participate in the Presidential Classroom for Young Americans in Washington, D.C.

1961: Chairman J.L. Mauthe and President A.S. Glossbrenner tell Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. stockholders that the company earned $20.7 million or $7.35 a share on sales and revenue of $584 million in 1960.

Col. L.R. Boals, Vindicator music critic and musical director of WFMJ, dies in North Side Hospital at the age of 82.

1936: The frightened mewing of his pet cat awakens James Cain, 16, who had to fight his way through heavy smoke to safety as fire was destroying the family’s six-room frame home on Boardman-Poland Road. Cain was home alone at the time; the cat disappeared.

All Youngstown horse race bookmakers are ordered closed by Mayor Lionel Evans and police Chief Carl Olson.

Mayor Evans says Youngstown police and firemen must take 10 percent pay cuts or their ranks will be trimmed through the use of examinations.