Today is Monday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2012. There are 343 days left in the year.

January 23, 2012 at 12:00a.m.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1789: Georgetown University is established in present-day Washington, D.C.

1812: The second New Madrid Earthquake strikes, with an estimated magnitude of 7.5, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

1845: Congress decides all national elections will be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

1932: New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.

1937: Seventeen people go on trial in Moscow during Josef Stalin’s “Great Purge.” (All are convicted; all but four are executed.)

1943: Critic Alexander Woollcott suffers a fatal heart attack during a live broadcast of the CBS radio program “People’s Platform.”

1950: The Israeli Knesset approves a resolution affirming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

1960: The U.S. Navy-operated bathyscaphe Trieste carries two men to the deepest known point in the Pacific Ocean, reaching a depth of more than 35,000 feet.

1962: Jackie Robinson is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.

Tony Bennett records “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” by George Cory and Douglass Cross, in New York for Columbia Records.

1964: The 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, is ratified.

1968: North Korea seizes the Navy intelligence ship USS Pueblo, charging its crew with being on a spying mission. (The crew is released 11 months later.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: Mahoning County Probate Judge Leo P. Morley asks the 7th District Court of Appeals to back his order that the Mahoning County commissioners appropriate additional money for operation of his court.

New Middletown Village Council gives Mayor Michael Klim a week to obtain a $10,000 performance bond or face being ousted from office.

The former home of William E. Bliss, noted industrialist and community leader is sold for $42,000 to Edward and Carol Kassay of Ashtabula. The 14-room stately residence at 1624 Fifth Ave. was bequeathed to Youngstown State University by Bliss’ widow, but the university determined it was too far off campus to be put to use.

1972: Union drivers and mechanics for the Western Reserve Transit Authority will vote on a proposal by union leaders that they work without pay for a period of time in order to keep buses rolling while efforts are made to fund the service.

The latest official census report from the Department of Commerce shows Youngstown’s population in 1972 is 140,909 and Mahoning County’s population is 304,545.

Sixteen Youngstown businesses sign up with the Youngstown Health Department to provide discounted goods and services to senior citizens who have identification cards issued by the city.

1962: Reflecting a poor year in the steel business, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. announces earnings of $22.6 million, or $6.49 per share, on sales of $555 million.

The Mayor’s Safety Committee recommends that requirements for adult crossing guards in school zones be increased to require the ability to read, write and speak English.

Sidney S. Moyer, president of the Moyer Co., is elected president of the Youngstown Community Corp., succeeding William B. Pollock II at the annual meeting at the YMCA.

Rabbi Harold Schechter is installed as spiritual leader of Temple Emanu-El.

1937: The Red Cross launches a campaign to raise $2 million to aid 275,000 people left homeless by flooding, much of it along the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati.

Scores of people marooned in flood-swept homes near Warren and Newton Falls are rescued in small boats as the waters of the swollen Mahoning River laps at the foundation of their homes.

Dr. Colin M. Reed, prominent Youngstown physician and president of the Youngstown Printing Co., dies in North Side hospital one day after being rushed to there with an intestinal obstruction. He was 49.