Years Ago

Today is Friday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2012. There are 360 days left in the year.

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1412: Tradition holds that Joan of Arc is born this day in Domremy.

1759: George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis are married in New Kent County, Va.

1838: Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail give the first successful public demonstration of their telegraph, in Morristown, N.J.

1919: The 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, dies in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60.

1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlines a goal of “Four Freedoms”: Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear.

1967: U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Deckhouse Five, an offensive in the Mekong River delta.

1994: Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the leg by an assailant at Detroit’s Cobo Arena; four men, including the ex-husband of Kerrigan’s rival, Tonya Harding, go to prison for their roles in the attack. (Harding received probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution.)

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1987: The Poland Village Design and Review Board and developer Joseph Zdrilich end a long-standing feud, clearing the way for Zdrilich to build an office building on the site of the historical Johnson Hardware building.

Executives for Kaufmann’s in Pittsburgh say the decision to close stores in Austintown and Liberty plazas was based on geography, not the sales or profitability of the stores.

The former Mullins Manufacturing Co. plant on Buena Vista Avenue NE in Warren is sold by Bank One of Eastern Ohio to the Concord Steel Co.

1972: Mayor Jack C. Hunter says that eliminating the city’s projected $674,000 budget deficit will probably require dropping some 40 city employees.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Armco Steel Corp. announce price reductions on a wide range of products, following by a day a similar announcement by U.S. Steel Corp.

Youngstown will receive nearly $22,000 from the state to help defray police and fire protection for Youngstown State University.

1962: Youngstown University and the Youngstown Hospital Association will cooperate in offering a two-year associate degree for nurses as an answer to the area’s shortage of nurses.

James E. Mitchell, budget chairman for the Community Chest, says proceeds of the $1.2 million fund raising campaign will allow only slight increases for the 22 Red Feather service agencies in 1962.

1937: A reporter finds that slot machines, like bug writers, are operating openly in some parts of Youngstown, but not in the county.

A Treasury Department report released by Congress shows several thousand Americans who made more than $15,000 in salaries and commissions in 1935. At the top was newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst at $500,000, followed by actress Mae West at $480,833, steel executive C.W. Guttzeit at $398,808 and Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, at $374,505.