Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2015. There are 351 days left in the year.

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1784: The United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War; Britain follows suit in April 1784.

1814: The Treaty of Kiel ends hostilities between Denmark and Sweden, with Denmark agreeing to cede Norway to Sweden, something Norway refuses to accept.

1900: Puccini’s opera “Tosca” has its world premiere in Rome.

1914: Ford Motor Co. greatly improves its assembly-line operation by employing an endless chain to pull each chassis along at its Highland Park plant.

1952: NBC’s “Today” show premieres, with Dave Garroway as the host, or “communicator.”

1954: Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio are married at San Francisco City Hall. (The marriage lasted about nine months.)

1963: George C. Wallace is sworn in as governor of Alabama with the pledge, “Segregation forever!” — a view Wallace later repudiated.

Sylvia Plath’s novel “The Bell Jar” is published in London under the pen name “Victoria Lucas,” less than a month before Plath committed suicide.

1965: Singer-actress Jeanette MacDonald, 61, dies in Houston.

1975: The House Internal Security Committee (formerly the House Un-American Activities Committee) is disbanded.

1989: President Ronald Reagan delivers his 331st and final weekly White House radio address, telling listeners, “Believe me, Saturdays will never seem the same. I’ll miss you.”

1994: President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign an accord to stop aiming missiles at any nation; the leaders join Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk in signing an accord to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.

2005: Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr., the reputed ringleader of a band of rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, is convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of abusing Iraqi detainees. (Graner was sentenced the next day to 10 years in prison; he was released from prison in Aug. 2011 after serving more than 61/2 years.)

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1990: Denver’s John Elway masters the Cleveland Browns, leading the Broncos to a 37-21 victory for the American Football Conference championship. Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar offers no excuses: “They made the plays, and we didn’t. As a result, they are going to the Super Bowl [against the San Francisco 49ers] and we’re not.”

A Youngstown psychiatrist, Dr. James Giannini leaves on a three-week, five-country European tour of speaking engagements on the epidemic of cocaine abuse.

Russell Saadey’s ill- fated 1988 challenge of Don L. Hanni Jr. for chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party, has come back to haunt him. Hanni is supporting Mary Kathryn Smith for a seat on the Mahoning County Board of Elections held by Saadey.

1975: Jeffrey Lynn Landau, 25, of 2455 Fifth Ave. Ext., Liberty Township, is found shot to death in the living room of his house. His assailant used a pillow to muffle five shots from a 22-caliber pistol.

Mrs. Mary Zilla Smith marks her 100th birthday at the Little Forest Medical Center.

William H. Cossler, vice president of Youngstown Building Material and Fuel Co., is elected president of the Ohio State Board of Education.

1965: Golden Gloves fighter Jerry Como, 17, dies after collapsing at the fights at South High Field House.

Youngstown University’s seven-game winning streak is snapped as the Penguin cagers lose to Steubenville, 50-48.

Trinity Methodist Church receives the Downtown Garage building and its real estate from the L.A. Beeghly fund.

1940: Interest in hockey is growing in Youngstown. In 1939, some 9,800 Youngstowners were taken to Cleveland by William Hammerman on special hockey trains.

A midnight fire causes extensive damage to the Kroger store at Elm and Fifth streets in Struthers.

The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority, in a resolution approving a second low-cost housing project for Youngstown, declares it has established that at least 3,500 families are eligible for such a project.