Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2012. There are 337 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1843: The 25th president of the United States, William McKinley, is born in Niles, Ohio.

1919: The ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launches Prohibition, is certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk.

1936: The first members of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, are named in Cooperstown, N.Y.

1963: The first members of pro football’s Hall of Fame are named in Canton, Ohio.

1979: President Jimmy Carter formally welcomes Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations.

1990: Former Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial in Anchorage, Alaska, on charges stemming from the 1989 oil spill. (Hazelwood is acquitted of the major charges, and convicted of a misdemeanor.)

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1987: Mahoning County Sheriff Edward P. Nemeth says 21 of the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department’s 70 employees will be laid off in a cost-cutting measure.

Warren City Council tables a proposal by Councilman George Lockwood to reduce the number of Municipal Court judges from two to one.

Legislation to eliminate one of Youngstown’s three municipal court judges is bottled up in a committee of the Ohio House of Representatives despite an appeal by city officials who visit the Statehouse.

1972: A McGuffey Heights man is being held and three others are being sought for robbing the Dollar Savings & Trust Co. branch at Lincoln Knolls Plaza. About $10,000 of the $40,000 in loot has been recovered.

Gilbert R. Smith, the new chairman of Youngstown’s Park and Recreation Commission, warns that the commission is “not going to be used for political favors to get votes” for city councilmen.

1962: State Auditor James A. Rhodes and Secretary of State Ted W. Brown are special guests as more than 200 Republicans attend the annual McKinley Club luncheon at the Youngstown YMCA.

Dr. Emily Wick, assistant professor of food chemistry at MIT and member of a prominent Youngstown family, is the subject of a full-page feature in the Boston Sunday Herald.

Ted Conner, announcer at WFMJ for more than 16 years, is leaving the station to join the staff of WLAC in Nashville, Tenn.

1937: Production at the Moyer Manufacturing Co. at 18 N. Walnut St. virtually ceases after 150 girls, members of the United Garment Workers of America, walk out over the discharge of two officers of the local.

Charles West, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s undersecretary of the Interior, says at the Jackson banquet at Akron that he backs construction of a Beaver-Mahoning rivers waterway to save the Ohio Valley from another disastrous flood. He notes that Gov. James Cox advocated the project immediately after the 1913 flood.