Sunday, January 22, 2012
Today is Sunday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2012. There are 344 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1498: During his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus arrives at the present-day Caribbean island of St. Vincent.
1901: Britain’s Queen Victoria dies at age 81.
1917: President Woodrow Wilson pleads for an end to war in Europe, calling for “peace without victory.” (By April, however, America also is at war.)
1944: During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio, Italy.
1959: Twelve workers are killed in the Knox Mine Disaster in Pennsylvania.
1973: The U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, legalizes abortions using a trimester approach.
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson, 64, dies.
1997: The Senate confirms Madeleine Albright as the nation’s first female secretary of state.
VINDICATOR FILES
1987: Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, a former legislator from Meadville, Pa., pulls a gun from an envelope during a press conference and kills himself before news cameras, a day before he was to be sentenced on a bribery conviction.
The Warren Area Jaycees name Richard K. Griffing and Eugene Rossi as “Citizens of the Year” during the annual Bosses Night dinner at the Living Room restaurant.
Trumbull and Mahoning counties will not receive about $300,000 each in property taxes due them from LTV Steel Co. because LTV is protected from its creditors by having filed for bankruptcy.
1972: Symptoms of Hong Kong flu and other strains of influenza are spreading, and Youngstown hospitals ban general visitation.
Robert Parks, 27, is in fair condition in South Side Hospital with a bullet wound of his left abdomen suffered during an argument with a member of his family over some erotic photos and money. Parks was indicted in the first degree manslaughter of Lloyd McCullough in April 1968.
1962: A Trumbull County Common Pleas Court jury finds Trumbull County Democratic Party Chairman Frank Cickelli guilty on two counts of aiding and abetting solicitation of a bribe.
Pennsylvania State Police arrest a Girard man in their investigation of counterfeiting of “Top Value” trading stamps. Police are trying to locate where the stamps are being printed.
1937: The Mahoning River approaches 13 feet above normal, threatening to throw thousands of Youngstown mill workers out of jobs.
The East Liverpool Board of Education bans “bingo” or other games of chance as fund-raising activities after band mothers ask for permission to use the school gymnasium for a benefit party.