Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2012. There are 352 days left in the year.

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1784: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England, ending the Revolutionary War.

1858: Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, and his wife, Empress Eugenie, escape an assassination attempt led by Italian revolutionary Felice Orsini, who is later captured and executed.

1900: Puccini’s opera “Tosca” has its world premiere in Rome.

1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Gen. Charles de Gaulle open a wartime conference in Casablanca.

1952: NBC’s “Today” show premieres, with Dave Garroway as the host, or “communicator,” as he was called.

1963: George C. Wallace is sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of “segregation forever.”

1968: The Green Bay Packers of the NFL defeat the AFL’s Oakland Raiders, 33-14, in Super Bowl II.

1969: Twenty-seven people aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, off Hawaii, are killed when a rocket warhead explodes, setting off a fire and additional explosions.

1994: President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign an accord to stop aiming missiles at any nation.

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1987: Christopher S. Lardis is elected president of the Trumbull County Board of Commissioners

A Youngstown State University survey finds that Mahoning County residents view unemployment as the area’s most severe problem.

Youngstown Finance Director Gary T. Kubic says the city will offer Lans-downe Airport for sale and will consider bids from investors wanting to upgrade the airport or convert the acreage into an industrial park.

1972: Hyman Rabinowitz, who is celebrating his 100th birthday, has seen many changes in Youngstown and remembers the flood of 1913 when he was operating a clothing store on S. Center Street.

U.S. Sen. Robert Taft announces a $1 million Emergency Employment Act grant for Youngstown. The money is earmarked for areas with unemployment exceeding 6 percent and priority is to be given to unemployed Vietnam vets.

The Chevrolet Division of General Motors announces it will assemble Vegas in Canada, which will mean an increase in employment at the Fisher Body metal fabricating division in Lordstown.

Youngstown officials are negotiating with U.S.S. Realty for the transfer of 240 acres of former Ohio Works property in the vicinity of Salt Spring Road.

1962: Youngstown police say city businesses have one week to get rid of any devices that may tend to induce anyone, especially children, to gamble. A gumball machine was confiscated from a High Street grocery store because it offered prizes.

A Youngstown woman, Mrs. Earl R. Sanders, 60, is killed and her sister injured in a collision at South Avenue Ext. and Mathews Road, which is becoming one of the area’s most dangerous intersections.

Austintown Township’s new constable, Noel W. Featsent of Ashtabula, announces that his is quitting the $6,500-a-year job because of family pressures and the inadequacy of township equipment that he has found in a week.

1937: A 24-year-old former Sharon man, Harold Brest, is arrested in Boise, Idaho, and is held for a series of crimes, including the Volant, Pa., bank robbery and kidnapping of D.L. Santee.

T. Lamar Jackson, the new president of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, says the organization will concentrate its efforts on the lake-to-river waterway and a new municipal airport.

Rabbi Stephen Wise of New York tells more than 600 people at Rodef Sholem Temple in Youngstown that “if you have anyone in Germany whom you can possibly take out of that country, do so at once.”

The day shift of about 27 Western Union messenger boys at the Youngstown office go on strike and refuse to deliver mid-day messages. They return to work after a meeting with Dan Roche, manager.