Years Ago

Today is Monday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2012. There are 336 days left in the year.

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1798: A brawl breaks out in the U.S. House of Representatives in Philadelphia, as Matthew Lyon of Vermont spits in the face of Roger Griswold of Connecticut.

1948: Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, is shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator are later executed.)

1962: Two members of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act are killed when their seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit.

1968: The Tet Offensive begins during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launch attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.

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1987: Youngstown’s economic recovery will be a slow process, and city officials must do all they can to make the city more attractive to potential investors, Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro says during a town hall meeting at St. Matthias Church on the South Side.

Mahoning County Sheriff Edward P. Nemeth says budget cuts will lead to layoffs in jail personnel, but not in the 12-member patrol division.

1972: Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter announces officially that he will not seek the Republican nomination for the 19th Congressional District.

Youngstown State University trustees approve an increase in student representation on the University Senate from six to 14 and gives them full voting privileges. Faculty members had approved the change by a vote of 74-6.

1962: A new fire-fighting technique that uses fast-expanding bubbles that can fill a two-story building in eight minutes is demonstrated to Youngstown area fire departments by the Safety Development Corp.

McKinley and Lincoln were the most beloved of our presidents,” state Auditor James A. Rhodes, Republican candidate for governor, tells more than 500 people at the 47th annual dinner of the Mahoning Valley McKinley Club at the McKinley Memorial in Niles.

1937: Steel output in the Mahoning Valley is set to reach a new high since 1929, with virtually every available open hearth in operation and ingot capacity of 82 percent.