Friday, January 24, 2014
Today is Friday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2014. There are 341 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1742: Charles VII is elected Holy Roman Emperor during the War of the Austrian Succession.
1848: James W. Marshall discovers a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern California, a discovery that leads to the gold rush of ’49.
1908: The Boy Scouts movement begins in England under the leadership of Robert Baden-Powell.
1924: The Russian city of Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad in honor of the late revolutionary leader. (However, it has since been renamed St. Petersburg.)
1939: At least 28,000 people are killed by an earthquake that devastates the city of Chillan in Chile.
1942: The Roberts Commission places much of the blame for America’s lack of preparedness for Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, the Navy and Army commanders.
1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill conclude a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.
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1989: William Carter, Youngstown’s Affirmative Action director, says a Supreme Court ruling that effectively bans state and local governments from giving preference to minority contractors could terminate Equal Employment Opportunity programs.
About four dozen marchers from the Youngstown area join anti-abortion demonstrators in Washington, D.C., to mark the 16th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
Poland Village Council votes unanimously to turn off 166 of the 175 street lights in the village, at least temporarily, as an economy measure.
1974: Thousands of Youngstown area independent truckers are expected to join a shutdown to protest government fuel policies and prices.
City Council favors placing an income tax increase on the May ballot that would raise the rate from 1.5 to 2 percent, with the increase allocated for capital improvements.
1964: The Mahoning County grand jury investigating organized crime issues a report charging some officials with seeking favors from racketeers and conducting fake raids. No specific indictments were returned.
Bruno Polito, 92, of 2618 Wilson Ave., Campbell, is pronounced dead of carbon monoxide poisoning and his son, Anthony, 65, is hospitalized after a neighbor became suspicious.
William E. Miller, Republican national chairman, tells more than 600 people at the 49th annual Mahoning Valley McKinley Club dinner that “the 1964 election may be the last real chance to preserve the fiscal responsibility essential to the safety of the Free World.”
1939: Mrs. Elizabeth Crawford, 68, bedridden for a year, perishes in a fire that destroyed a Trumbull Hill home off Belmont Avenue Ext. Girard firemen, hindered by lack of water, could only stand by while the house burned.
Mrs. Fred M. Orr is re-elected for the 24th time as president of the Mahoning County Chapter of the American Red Cross.