Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2014. There are 340 days left in the year.

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1533: England’s King Henry VIII secretly marries his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gives birth to Elizabeth I.

1787: Shays’s Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers led by Capt. Daniel Shays fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass.

1863: During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln accepts Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside’s resignation as commander of the Army of the Potomac, and replaces him with Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker.

1890: Reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) of the New York World completes a round-the-world journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.

1915: Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service between New York and San Francisco.

1924: The first Winter Olympic Games open in Chamonix, France.

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1989: Youngstown police ratify a three-year contract that includes 5 percent pay raises in each year at an estimated cost to the city of over $1 million.

James J. Melfi, owner of the Pizza Parlor on Church Hill Road, is named Girard city treasurer by city Democratic precinct committeemen.

1974: With sales of its large cars slumping, General Motors announces another round of cutbacks that will idle 75,000 line workers at 14 plants and an unknown number of component-parts workers.

Three elderly tenants and two firemen are hospitalized from a fire that heavily damaged a three-story apartment house on Perkinswood Boulevard in Warren.

1964: U.S. Sen. Stephen M. Young of Ohio, who is being challenged for the Democratic nomination by former astronaut John Glenn, tells the Cleveland Plain Dealer that Glenn voted for Republican Richard M. Nixon in the 1960 presidential race. Young cited an interview of the first seven astronauts in which they reportedly said they voted for Nixon over John F. Kennedy.

Mayor Anthony B. Flask names four members of the City Planning Commission: Atty. Phillip Millstone, William G. Palmer, J.R. Moore and Mrs. Mary E. Maag.

1939: Byron W. Stewart, 55, superintendent of the Youngstown Hospital Association since 1921, dies of a heart attack in Cleveland. Stewart worked out most of the Ohio laws enabling hospitals to collect fees from the state for the care of indigent traffic victims.

After Justice of the Peace Charles W. Martin orders Mahoning County Sheriff Ralph Elser to return slot machines and other paraphernalia to the Poland Country Club, Elser announces that he will be making daily checks to make sure there’s no gambling.