Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2012. There are 351 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1929: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta.

1943: Work is completed on the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of War.

1967: The Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeat the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League 35-10 in the first AFL-NFL World Championship, retroactively known as Super Bowl I.

2009: US Airways Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger ditches his Airbus 320 in the Hudson River after a flock of birds disables the plane; all 155 people aboard survive.

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1987: Area school district administrators say statewide competency tests for high school students may eventually replace locally developed tests, a prospect that has them cringing.

Advocates for LTV Steel Co. retirees say the union should shut LTV down over the looming loss of $400 in supplemental monthly benefits when the PBGC takes over the company’s pensions.

1972: Dr. Joseph F. Swartz Jr. of the Education Department of Youngstown State University is installed as president of the William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society at a luncheon in the Woman’s City Club.

Two Youngstown councilmen, William R. Shranko and William Wade, tour the Youngstown City Jail and find that conditions could be improved, but aren’t intolerable.

1962:The Mahoning County Democratic Executive Committee votes unanimously to recommend County Chairman Jack Sulligan for a four-year term on the Board of Elections.

During a hearing at the Idora Park ballroom, A.S. Glossbrenner, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., urges congressional approval of an engineering study for the Lake Erie-to-Ohio River Waterway.

1937: Dr. W.W. Rhyall, Youngstown health commissioner, tells the Kiwanis Club that, “syphilis must go; its toll of human life and the suffering it brings to humanity is too great.”

The Probate Judges Association of Ohio adopts a report read by Judge Clifford M. Woodside of Youngstown calling for creation of a division of mental diseases in the state welfare department.