Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2012. There are 354 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1912: Textile workers at the Everett Mill in Lawrence, Mass., (most of them immigrant women) walk off the job to protest wage cuts.

1915: The House of Representatives rejects, 204-174, a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.

1966: President Lyndon B. Johnson says in his State of the Union address that the U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.

1971: The groundbreaking situation comedy “All in the Family” premieres on CBS television.

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1987: A Salem native, barefoot kicker Rich Karlis, kicks a field goal in overtime, snatching the AFC championship from the Cleveland Browns. Karlis’ Denver Broncos tied the game in the final minutes of regulation with a 98-yard touchdown drive.

1972: Mahoning County welfare rolls continue their upward climb, setting a new record of 8,908 cases involving 18,282 people in December, an increase of 256 cases during the month.

The Youngstown Income Tax Department expects to receive printouts of U.S. Internal Revenue Service federal income tax forms to enable the city to locate Youngstown tax dodgers.

1962: Mahoning County’s first fatal traffic accident of the new year claims the life of Michael Sandine, 44, a former amateur boxer and well known sandlot player, whose car rammed a truck in Route 422.

1937: Frank H. Vogan, 60, former Mahoning County commissioner and treasurer who was long active in the Republican party, dies in South Side hospital of heart trouble.

Tony Vivo is the leading scorer of the Youngstown College cagers and will lead the Penguins against Hiram College at the Youngstown YMCA.

Michael Sawczak is elected president of the Ukrainian-American Citizen Club of Holy Trinity Church in Youngstown.