Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2015. There are 352 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1733: James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrive at Charleston, S.C., while en route to settle in present- day Georgia.

1794: President George Washington approves a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.)

1883: The Henrik Ibsen play “An Enemy of the People” is first performed in Christiania (Oslo), Norway.

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1990: Ohio Secretary of State Sherrod Brown’s acceptance of a disputed ballot makes Dr. Joseph Belichick the winner of a seat on Poland Village Council.

The Rev. R. Harrison Bolen, former executive director of family planning for Lorain County, is installed as pastor of Wickliffe Christian Church.

Youngstown State football coach Jim Tressel returns from the NCAA convention in Dallas where, he says, much of the discussion centered on the need for athletic directors and football coaches to cut costs.

1975: William M. Goldman, assistant city engineer with the Youngstown Division of Public Works, is named deputy director of District 4, Ohio Department of Transportation.

Republicans Lyle Williams and Anthony Bernard are elected chairman and vice chairman respectively of the Trumbull County Board of Commissioners, marking the first time since the early 1960s that the board is dominated by Republicans.

More than 60 young musicians from the five- county area will play in the Youngstown Symphony Youth Orchestra’s performance at Powers Auditorium.

1965: Morris Simon, president of Simco Enterprises, announces that his firm will build a 14-unit luxury apartment complex in Forest Glen at a cost of $1.5 million.

Atty. Donald J. Morrisroe is appointed by Gov. James A. Rhodes to serve the unexpired term of Judge George Jones on the Court of Appeals.

Col. Surinder Bhaskan, head of oral pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., will speak at the annual dinner meeting of the Corydon Palmer Dental Society at the Voyager Motel.

1940: The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors approves a resolution in support of increased efforts in 1940 to achieve construction of a Lake Erie to Ohio River canal.

Construction of Youngs-town’s $3 million airport has been slowed by inclement weather, but a force of nearly 900 WPA workers are on the job.