Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 26, the 26th day of 2011. There are 339 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1841: Britain formally occupies Hong Kong, which the Chinese had ceded to the British.

1861: Louisiana passes an Ordinance of Secession, 113-17, at the state capitol in Baton Rouge, becoming the sixth state to break free from the United States.

1942: The first American expeditionary force to go to Europe during World War II goes ashore in Northern Ireland.

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1986: The Rt. Rev. Richard Allen Hildebrand, presiding bishop of the Third Episcopal District, will speak at Grace AME Church in Warren at a service marking the 199th year of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

A 16-year-old cat is the beneficiary of a $10,000 trust fund in the $220,000 estate left by Miss Ruth Partridge, 76, of Warren, a retired teacher who died Jan. 4.

1971: Ohio Gov. John J. Gilligan tells a congressional committee that a tax credit program for individuals and corporations would give the states more money than President Nixon’s revenue sharing plan.

1961: Supplemental unemployment benefits will be reduced by about 8 percent for 7,000 to 8,000 unemployed steelworkers, which will mean a loss of $159,000 a week to the Youngstown district economy.

1936: Payment of $6,000 in city cash to settle a lawsuit against the city over the protest of the city’s legal advisers comes to light as the state examiners deepen their probe into municipal affairs under the regime of former mayor Mark E. Moore.