YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2015. There are 344 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1793: During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, is executed on the guillotine.

1861: Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and four other Southerners whose states had seceded from the Union, resign from the U.S. Senate.

1908: New York City’s Board of Aldermen passes an ordinance prohibiting women from smoking in public establishments (the measure was vetoed by Mayor George B. McClellan Jr., but not before one woman, Katie Mulcahey, was jailed overnight for refusing to pay a fine).

1910: The Great Paris Flood begins as the rain-swollen Seine River bursts its banks, sending water into the French capital.

1915: The first Kiwanis Club, dedicated to community service, is founded in Detroit.

1924: Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin dies at age 53.

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1990: State Rep. Joseph Vukovich III attaches an amendment to a bill creating a domestic relations judgeship in Licking County that would create a fifth Mahoning County common pleas bench.

Trumbull County and Lordstown village officials fear that a breach of confidentiality regarding a possible Toys ‘R’ Us warehouse nears the Space Center, an industrial park on state Route 45 in Lordstown, may have doomed the project.

Dr. Chester Stout retires after 20 years as librarian at the McKinley Memorial Library in Niles. Before coming to Niles, Stout, 71, served 30 years in the Navy.

1975: Lines flowing into the streets have become a regular morning occurrence at the Mahoning County Welfare Department as unemployment, layoffs and strikes affect more and more county residents.

An armed man holds up Robert Komsa, manager of the Beverage Management Corp. on North Meridian Road and locks him in the trunk of his car after taking an undisclosed amount of money.

Cincinnati Reds catcher Johnny Bench and his fianc e, Vickie Chesser, announce their engagement on a Cincinnati television show.

1965: Alan Freed, former Youngstown announcer and rock ‘n’ roll king, dies in Palm Springs, Calif. He worked for stations WBBW, WKBN and later as program director of WKST in New Castle, before going on to Akron, Cleveland and New York.

Atty. Joseph T. Molotoris, Warren, is sworn in by Federal Judge Frank Battisti to the office of referee in bankruptcy, succeeding Judge Harold B. Doyle.

President Johnson’s inaugural parade has 15,000 marchers, 54 bands and 51 floats but no military display at Johnson’s request.

1940: Girard’s drive for the Finnish Relief Fund exceeds $500, with contributions ranging from $91 from a benefit show to $13 contributed by students at St. Rose School.

Dr. John “Jock” Sutherland, for 19 years head football coach at the University of Pittsburgh, will be the principal speaker at the “Youngstown College Day” meeting of the Rotary Club.

Lanterman Falls in Mill Creek Park is frozen over for the first time in several years.