Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2012. There are 355 days left in the year.

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1759: The first American life insurance corporation, for “poor and distressed” Presbyterian ministers and their widows and children, is chartered in Philadelphia.

1908: President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims the Grand Canyon National Monument (it becomes a national park in 1919).

1913: The first sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, goes on display at the 13th National Automobile Show in New York.

1927: The creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is proposed during a dinner of Hollywood luminaries at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

1943: The United States and Britain sign treaties relinquishing extraterritorial rights in China.

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1987: James V. Stack, general manager of LTV Steel Co.’s Warren Works, says the company is mounting a “massive effort” to secure the long-term future of the plant.

Youngstown fans head by car and bus for Cleveland where the Browns will play the Denver Broncos for the AFC championship and a spot in the Super Bowl.

1972: Leonard Gump, 19, of East Liverpool is crushed to death by a flatbed conveyance in a C&W Mining Co. mine on McCormick Run Road south of Lisbon.

Lowellville Basketball Coach Dick Williams tells the Vindicator’s John Kovach the secret of his undefeated season: He’s stopped scouting the opposition, freeing his team to play its own game.

1962: Two of Ohio’s gubernatorial candidates, Democratic Atty. Gen. Mark McElroy and Republican state Auditor James A. Rhodes, make separate visits to Youngstown.

Youngstown’s new mayor, Harry Savasten, calls for “patience and understanding” while he studies a new approach to handling the problems of fair employment and human relations.

More than 20 members of four families are forced into near-zero cold when fire breaks out in a two-story frame house in Alexander Street in Youngstown.

1937: Louis Ozersky, who came to America as a Russian immigrant 40 years ago and became a baker, one of Youngstown’s most prosperous citizens and a philanthropist, dies in South Side Hospital.

Two steers escape onto South Avenue from the Steiner Packing Co. and lead employees, police and passersby on a merry chase until being rounded up and led back to the packing house.

Joe Zetts, Campbell’s student mayor for a day, declares himself unalterably opposed to “the bug.”