YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2015. There are 359 days left in the year.

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1540: England’s King Henry VIII marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. (The marriage lasted about six months.)

1759: George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis are married in New Kent County, Va.

1838: Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail give the first successful public demonstration of their telegraph in Morristown, N.J.

1912: New Mexico becomes the 47th state.

1919: The 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, dies in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60.

1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlines a goal of “Four Freedoms”: Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear.

1945: George Herbert Walker Bush marries Barbara Pierce at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York.

1950: Britain recognizes the Communist government of China.

1963: “Oliver!,” Lionel Bart’s musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel “Oliver Twist,” opens on Broadway.

“Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” debuts on NBC.

1974: Year-round daylight saving time begins in the United States on a trial basis as a fuel-saving measure in response to the OPEC oil embargo.

1975: The original version of “Wheel of Fortune,” hosted by Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford, premieres on NBC-TV.

1987: The U.S. Senate votes 88-4 to establish an 11-member panel to hold public hearings on the Iran-Contra affair.

1994: Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the leg by an assailant at Detroit’s Cobo Arena; four men, including the ex-husband of Kerrigan’s rival, Tonya Harding, go to prison for their roles in the attack. (Harding denied knowing about plans for the attack.)

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1990: Lake County Prosecutor Steven LaTourette says 13 people indicted for the ritualistic murders of five members of a rural Painesville family “are not crazy ... they are the coolest, most inhuman people this county has ever seen.”

A 42-year-old Warren man is sentenced in Mercer, Pa., to two to five years in prison for the death of 10-year-old Corwin Dorogi, who was shot when a pistol the man used to strike the boy’s mother discharged.

Alan Spitzer, a Lorain County developer who is pushing for a statewide referendum that would allow seven gambling casinos in Ohio, including one in Youngstown, says organized crime’s influence in U.S. casino operations is waning.

1975: Trumbull County Deputy Sheriff David Furrie dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital of a gunshot wound suffered during a robbery at a Mineral Ridge service station where he was working New Year’s Eve.

William Curtis, 17, is treated at St. Elizabeth Hospital for a gunshot wound of the leg suffered when he stopped to help a man who flagged him down at Truesdale Avenue and Shehy Street and then tried to rob him.

More than 700 former students, family members and friends attend a Mass of Thanksgiving at the Ursuline Motherhouse marking the silver jubilees of Ursuline Sisters Janet Elaine Walsh, Gertrude Paris and Teresa Winsen.

1965: Albin P. Dearing is elected president of the Poland Board of Education. George Hojer is vice president and other members are P.D. Baxter, R.D. Hill, H.Y. Hunneke Jr. and R. H. McCollum.

K.T. Salem and Gene A. Salem, operators of the Salem Potato Chip Co. of Akron, purchase the Wheeler Minter Spring Co. The new owners say all 17 employees will be retained.

John H. Glenn retires from the Marine Corps after 23 years service. Glenn says he is fully recovered from his fall and i s now 100 percent fit.

1940: Atty. Chester C. Beard is named justice of the peace for Boardman by township trustees.

The Poland Country Club, a gambling den that has been idled since a raid by Sheriff Ralph Elser a year ago, is damaged by an explosion that rocked buildings in the immediate area. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Budak, parents of the owner, Frank Budak, were in the building but not injured.

Two small children, their mother and an invalid are carried to safety when a two-alarm fire damaged their home at 1640 Medford Ave. Saved were Mrs. Rachel Arkwrght, 62; Mrs. James Coleman, 25; James Coleman Jr., 2, and Ruth Coleman, 1.