Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2011. There are 335 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1649: England’s King Charles I is beheaded.

1911: James White, an intellectually disabled black man who’d been convicted of rape for having sex with a 14-year-old white girl when he was 16, is publicly hanged in Bell County, Ky.

Jazz trumpeter Roy Eldridge is born in Pittsburgh.

1933: Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.

1948: Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, is shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator are later executed.)

1961: President John F. Kennedy delivers his first State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress.

1968: The Tet Offensive begins during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launch surprise attacks against South Vietnamese capitals.

1972: Thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers are shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what becomes known as “Bloody Sunday.”

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1986: Enrollment at Youngstown State University is reported at 14,120 for the winter quarter, a drop of 348 from the same time a year earlier.

Three men who suffered burns in a fire at the General Motors Lordstown van assembly plant in July file a $10.5 million lawsuit against the corporation and an equipment manufacturer.

Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro says Youngstown city employees will no longer be paid for vacation time they did not take over their careers.

1971: The Lake Milton Cottage Owners Association seeks a court ruling barring the city of Youngstown from enforcing an order that all cottages be removed from city-owned land in 1971.

A proposal to make Youngstown park police member of the city’s regular police force is submitted to the Park and Recreation Commission.

Jack Tobin, manager of Satan’s Inferno, a night spot at 22 Fifth Ave., is found not guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of a patron in the place in March 1970.

1961: Five ROTC graduates at Youngstown University are sworn in as Army second lieutenants: Daniel P. Murphy, John D. Tomko, William J. Metzinger, Ivan S. Bell and Stephen Dunchak Jr.

Acting on a telephone tip, Akron police find that a 250-pound deer had been clubbed to death at the children’s zoo. Police said someone had dragged the deer to the outer fence but was apparently unable to lift it over.

Police Chief Frank Watters shifts six Youngstown patrolmen to permanent night shift duty in what he says is a war on burglary.

1936: Former Fire Chief Harry Callan, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor, responded to inquiries about missing arson records at the department by saying he burned all his personal records of investigation covering eight years before leaving office. But, he says, he destroyed no files belonging to the department.

With cold weather continuing and the Ohio River blocked by ice, Youngstown coal dealers report their supplies are getting short.

Robert Jones, 15, of 1823 Logan Ave., falls and breaks his leg while skiing on a vacant lot across from his home.