Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Jan. 28, the 28th day of 2012. There are 338 days left in the year.

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1547: England’s King Henry VIII dies; he is succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Edward VI.

1813: The novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen is first published in London, anonymously.

1912: Abstract painter Jackson Pollock is born in Cody, Wyo.

1915: The United States Coast Guard is created as President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill merging the Life-Saving Service and Revenue Cutter Service.

1916: Louis D. Brandeis is nominated by President Woodrow Wilson to the Supreme Court; Brandeis becomes the court’s first Jewish member.

1945: During World War II, Allied supplies begin reaching China over the newly reopened Burma Road.

1973: A cease-fire officially goes into effect in the Vietnam War.

1986: The space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.

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1987: Copperweld Steel Co. office and clerical employees approve a new contract exchanging $2.28 in hourly wage and benefit concessions for profit sharing and/or stock and guaranteed employment for the life of the contract.

Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro is negotiating with local banks to participate in a new program that would provide city-subsidized loans to finance rehabilitation of downtown buildings.

The Ungaro administration says it will seek an injunction to force city police officers who staged a “blue flu” work stoppage to return to work.

1972: The South Side Library, completely remodeled at a cost of $289,000, is ready to reopen.

Former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, decrying the power and influence of campaign contributions, is advocating a constitutional amendment that would limit the president to one six-year term.

McCullough Williams Jr., vice president of the Youngstown Board of Education, congratulates 50 members of the 37th graduation class of Choffin School of Practical Nursing for doing something about today’s human needs.

1962: Dr. Carl A. Kuether, associate professor of chemistry at Youngstown University, is named associate director of molecular biology at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C.

American industry’s ability to produce steel by the oxygen converter process is rapidly making many hundreds of millions of dollars worth of steel-making facilities, including those in Youngstown, obsolete.

More than 3,000 fight fans see the exciting conclusion of Tom Carney’s 35th Golden Gloves Amateur Boxing Tournament at the Struthers Field House. Open division champions are: Sam Taylor, Bernard Moore, Billy Tanner, Wilhelm Bley, James Henderson, Ted Gullick, James Kitchen and Lorenzo Ingram.

1937: The tremendous task of cleaning up the flood-wrecked sections of the Youngstown district is underway, but about 200 people from Warren remain quartered in the Ohio National Guard Armory and S. Park Avenue school.

Three well-dressed gunmen hold up the operator of a N. Phelps St. “bookie” joint, locking eight patrons and the operator in a lavatory. They escape with $300 in cash and a diamond ring.

Sarah Sims, beloved superintendent of the Florence Crittenton Home, retires after 17 years as a friend of Youngstown’s unfortunate girls.