YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2015. There are 353 days left in the year.

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1519: Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I dies.

1773: The first public museum in America is organized in Charleston, S.C.

1828: The United States and Mexico sign a Treaty of Limits defining the boundary between the two countries to be the same as the one established by an 1819 treaty between the U.S. and Spain.

1912: Textile workers at the Everett Mill in Lawrence, Mass., most of them immigrant women, walk off the job to protest wage cuts.

1915: The U.S. House of Representatives rejects, 204-174, a proposed constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote.

The silent film drama “A Fool There Was,” which propelled Theda Bara to stardom with her portrayal of a predatory vamp, premieres in New York.

1932: Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate after initially being appointed to serve out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus.

1945: During World War II, Soviet forces begin a major, successful offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe.

1959:Berry Gordy Jr. founds Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit.

1965: The music variety show “Hullabaloo” premieres on NBC-TV with host-of-the-week Jack Jones; guests include Joey Heatherton, the New Christy Minstrels and Woody Allen.

Playwright Lorraine Hansberry (“A Raisin in the Sun”) dies in New York at age 34.

1975: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 to win Super Bowl IX at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans.

1986: The shuttle Columbia blasts off with a crew that includes the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.

1995: Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, is arrested in Minneapolis on charges she tried to hire a hit man to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan (the charges were later dropped in a settlement with the government).

2000: In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Illinois v. Wardlow, gives police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.

2005: Britain’s Prince Harry apologizes after a newspaper published a photograph of the young royal wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party.

2010: Haiti is struck by a magnitude-7 earthquake; the Haitian government says 316,000 people were killed, while a report prepared for the U.S. Agency for International Development suggests the death toll may have been between 46,000 and 85,000.

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1990: Edward J. Allen, the outspoken Youngstown police chief credited with busting the mob in the late 1940s and early ’50s, dies in an Orange, Calif., hospital after suffering a heart attack. He was 81. He and former Mayor Charles Henderson were featured in a 1950 Reader’s Digest article titled, “They Busted the Rackets in Youngstown.”

The Ohio State Highway Patrol in Lisbon says Jeffrey Denny, 27, of Homeworth is killed when a large tree felled by 50 mph winds landed on his car as he was driving on Lowmiller Road in West Township.

The Liberty Board of Education gives Superintendent Grant Deiter a new three-year contract maintaining his salary at $54,615.

1975: Coach Denny Barrett’s Cardinal Mooney speech team wins the Boardman Rotary Invitational Tournament at Boardman High School. Howland High was second and Boardman third.

State Sen. Harry Meshel is named co-chairman of the 1975 Heart Fund campaign by General Chairman Daniel H. Becker.

The Pittsburgh Steelers win the Super Bowl, defeating the Minnesota Vikings, 16-6. Terry Bradshaw throws for 966 yards and Franco Harris sets a Super Bowl rushing record of 158 yards, but the defense of Mean Joe Greene, Dwight White, Ernie Holmes and L.C. Greenwood hold the Vikings to a total of 123 yards, 17 on the ground.

1965: The executive committee of the Bureau of Good Business Practices re-elects Albert H. Kindler as chairman and James Cossler as vice chairman.

The special taxation committee of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce criticizes Youngstown City Council for deficit spending, saying the city plans to spend more than $750,000 borrowed from future operating funds in 1965.

The Ohio Bell Co. says it will spend $2.5 million for improvements in the Youngstown exchange in 1965.

1940: Two boys and a girl are injured when a hit-skip driver runs over the sled on which they were coasting down Broadview Avenue. Injured were Mike Babinsky, 10; Charles Fednya, 12, and Mary Mancini, 12.

Ohio Gov. John Bricker says he won’t authorize extradition of Charlton B. Chilton, 44, of Cleveland, who “made good” after escaping from an Oklahoma reformatory in 1913.

U.S. Rep. Dewey Short, Missouri’s lone Republican congressman, will be the speaker at the annual McKinley Banquet in Niles on Jan. 29. Short, who has retained his Ozark flavor while studying at Harvard, Heidelberg, Oxford and the University of Berlin, is a sparkling critic of the New Deal.