Years Ago
Today is Friday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2012. There are 339 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1880: Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
1943: Some 50 bombers strike Wilhelmshaven in the first all-American air raid against Germany during World War II.
1944: The Soviet Union announces the complete end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.
1945: Soviet troops liberate the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
1951: An era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert begins as an Air Force plane drops a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flat.
1967: Astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee die in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft.
More than 60 nations sign a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.
1972: “Queen of Gospel” Mahalia Jackson, 60, dies in Evergreen Park, Ill.
1973: The Vietnam peace accords are signed in Paris.
1977: The Vatican issues a declaration reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church’s ban on female priests.
1984: Singer Michael Jackson suffers serious burns to his scalp when pyrotechnics set his hair on fire during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola TV commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
VINDICATOR FILES
1987: The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is likely to take over Lake Milton as a state park if funds are appropriated by the General Assembly.
The 7th District Court of Appeals upholds Youngstown’s right to promote employees on the sole basis of seniority. The ruling came in a suit brought by Atty. Avetis G. Darvanan, a member of the Youngstown Civil Service Commission, who argued that promotions should be based on promotional exams.
1972: Three gunmen rob the Dollar Savings & Trust Co.’s Lincoln Knolls office, escaping with more than $40,000.
Youngstown detectives file a charge of possessing burglary tools in municipal court against a 20-year-old Roxbury Avenue man who remains in St. Elizabeth Hospital after being shot by police during a stakeout at Lincoln Knolls Plaza.
1962: Despite wide circulation of an artist’s rendering of a suspect in Youngstown’s firebug investigation, police and fire investigators are back to square one. A suspect was questioned and released.
Poor weather forces postponement of the rocket launch that was to put astronaut John Glenn in orbit above the earth. A new date has not been set.
1937: Nearly 500 Warren flood refugees, tired-eyed and haggard, prepare to return to their water-ravaged homes. Meanwhile, Youngstown district steel plants are back to normal as the Mahoning River’s flood waters recede rapidly.
Mahoning County raises almost a third of its flood relieve quota for the Mahoning Chapter of the American Red Cross in short order, thanks in part to a flood relief broadcast on WKBN.