Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2014. There are 335 days left in the year.

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1649: England’s King Charles I is executed for treason.

1862: The ironclad USS Monitor is launched from the Continental Iron Works in Greenpoint, N.Y., during the Civil War.

1882: The 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is born in Hyde Park, N.Y.

1933: Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.

The first episode of the “Lone Ranger” radio program is broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit.

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1989: CSC Industries Inc., parent company of Copperweld Steel Co. in Warren, reports its first yearly profit since its birth as an independent company.

Dr. Lou Zona, director of the Butler Institute of American Art, says he grew up in New Castle, Pa., dreaming not of running a museum, but of playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates. His love of art and sports is reflected in the museum’s Lester F. Donnell sports gallery.

Robert Pegues, 52, former Youngstown superintendent of schools, is mulling a run for mayor of Youngstown in the Republican primary.

1974: A Leetonia truck driver is shot in the ear and another injured by flying glass in shooting by snipers from the Interstate 80-Four Mile Run overpass as the protest against soaring costs and dwindling fuel supplies continues by independent truck drivers.

Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Brunswick of Sodom-Hutchings Road celebrate their 66th wedding anniversary with an open house at Vienna Presbyterian Church.

A young South Side man and woman are in South Side Hospital after being found unconscious in a car parked on the grounds of Sheridan School.

1964: Three children of Gail Ash, a teacher at Springfield Local High School, die in a fire at their frame home in Bergholz, northwestern Jefferson County. Dead are Rick, 13; Dianna, 11, and Deborah, 10.

A plaque commemorating 50 years in the insurance business is presented to T.A. Woodman Sr. by the Youngstown Association of Insurance Agents.

The widow and two children of a New Castle, Pa., truck driver who was burned to death in a spectacular two-truck collision near Canfield in March 1962 receives a $100,000 settlement from Cooper-Jarrett Inc. of Canton, which owned the second truck. Herbert Miller, 25, died, leaving his wife, Jean Agnes, and daughters Debra Lou, 6, and Brenda, 5.

1939: Democratic commissioners Henry C. Brandmiller and Fred A. Wagner authorize the purchase of 2.62 acres in Wickliffe for the Mahoning County maintenance department. Commissioner Lewis J. Kindler objects, saying he was kept in the dark.

Mahoning County Prosecutor William A. Ambrose attacks as unfair and incorrect a report by the U.S. Department of Commerce claiming that Mahoning County has a conviction rate of only 74 percent for people indicted for major crimes.

An autopsy shows that a toothpick somehow worked its way into the heart of Michael Fenske, 43, of 204 Fifth Ave. and caused his death after an illness that defied physicians for several months.