YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2015. There are 345 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1265: England’s first representative Parliament meets for the first time; the gathering at Westminster is composed of bishops, abbots, peers, Knights of the Shire and town burgesses.

1649: King Charles I of England goes on trial, accused of high treason (he was found guilty and executed by month’s end).

1887: The U.S. Senate approves an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.

1936: Britain’s King George V dies; he is succeeded by Edward VIII.

1942: Nazi officials hold the notorious Wannsee conference, during which they arrive at their “final solution” that calls for exterminating Jews.

1954: “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” a play by Herman Wouk based on part of his novel “The Caine Mutiny,” opens on Broadway.

1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson is inaugurated for a term of office in his own right.

Rock ’n’ roll promoter Alan Freed, 43, dies in Palm Springs, Calif.

The Byrds record the Bob Dylan song “Mr. Tambourine Man” at Columbia Records in Hollywood.

1975: Several former William Morris talent agents, including Michael Ovitz, found Creative Artists Agency (CAA).

1981: Iran releases 52 Americans it had held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

1985: President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush are sworn in for second terms of office in a brief White House ceremony (it being a Sunday, the public swearing-in was held the following day).

1986: The United States observes the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

1990: Actress Barbara Stanwyck dies in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 82.

2005: President George W. Bush is inaugurated for a second term as Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, ill with thyroid cancer, delivers the oath of office; anti-Bush demonstrators jeer the president’s motorcade during the inaugural parade.

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1990: Ohio’s State Employment Relations Board rules that teachers in the Beaver Local School District can strike for half-days, which would be the first state-sanctioned partial strike in history.

Wholesale Club Inc. announces plans to open its second store in the area, signing a lease for 103,000 square feet of a new 200,000 square-foot strip plaza being built by the Cafaro Co. on Eastwood Mall Boulevard, adjacent to the Busy Beaver DYI.

Warren fires one jailer and demotes another following charges by a former prostitute of sex-for-favors in the Warren City Jail.

1975: After enduring a painful year of recession, the nation’s home builders open their 1975 convention in Dallas looking for ideas on how to survive and house the country’s families. An 85-member delegation from eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania is among some 50,000 builders attending the sessions at the Dallas Convention Center.

Production resumes on the day shift at General Motors Corp.’s Vega- Astre line at the Lordstown plant.

Michael Seizer of Canfield is named “Barbershopper of the Year” at the annual dinner of the Stephen Foster Chapter of the Society to Preserve and Encourage Barbershop Quartet Singing in America.

1965: Dollar Savings and Trust shareholders elect a new director, James E. Bennett Jr.; assistant treasurers, Charles O. Smith and William S. Forsythe; assistant secretaries, William S. Pitzer and Den A. Tucci.

David L. Mink is named supervisor of management services for the Youngstown operations of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.

John F. Cantwell, retired real estate and insurance man and former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, dies at his Florida home.

1940: City employees in Sharon, Pa., will have a payless first payday of the new year because City Council has not formally adopted a 1940 budget.

James G. Eardley of Sebring is recommended by the Mahoning County Republican executive committee to a seat on the Board of Elections, succeeding Thad C. Rose of Canfield.

Youngstown Mayor William B. Spagnola issues an order that city employees must set an example by paying their bills, particularly water bills and special assessments where the city is the creditor. “If city employees don’t pay their water bills, how can we expect others to make payment?”