YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2015. There are 341 days left in the year.

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1742: Charles VII is elected Holy Roman emperor during the War of the Austrian Succession.

1848: James W. Marshall discovers a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern California, a discovery that leads to the gold rush of ’49.

1908: The Boy Scouts movement begins in England under the aegis of Robert Baden-Powell.

1935: Beer is first sold in cans in Richmond, Va., by the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Co.

1961: A U.S. Air Force B-52 crashes near Goldsboro, N.C., dropping its payload of two nuclear bombs, neither of which go off; three crew members are killed.

1965: British statesman Winston Churchill dies in London at age 90.

Comedian Larry Fine, of “Three Stooges” fame, dies in Los Angeles at age 72.

1985: The space shuttle Discovery is launched from Cape Canaveral on the first secret, all-military shuttle mission.

1989: Confessed serial killer Theodore Bundy is executed in Florida.

2014: A truck bombing strikes the main security headquarters in Cairo, one of a string of bombings targeting police in a 10-hour period, killing six people.

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1990: Mahoning County’s new treasurer, George McKelvey, writes to the Ohio Department of Taxation demanding to know how Youngstown racketeer Joey Naples was able to pay personal property taxes on his vending- machine business only once in the last nine years.

Struthers police officers issued only four traffic tickets in November and five in December, and city officials say it appears that a deliberate slowdown is being conducted to protest the layoff of 14 dispatchers.

Youngstown’s zoning inspector Frank Zarlenga says the Rescue Mission at 692 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. should install sprinklers to avoid the possibility of a lot of people getting hurt if there were a fire.

1975: A six-day search for David Evans, 13, who disappeared after last being seen near his Boardman home, ends with the discovery of his frozen body in the bushes of a parking lot at Boardman-Poland Road and Market Street.

Bishop John H. Burt, bishop of the Ohio Episcopal Diocese and former rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Youngstown, stresses the need for Christian unity at the annual meeting of the Mahoning Valley Association of Churches.

John Costantino is appointed to succeed John Knapic as athletic director at Campbell Memorial High School. He is a 1948 graduate of Memorial, where he played football and basketball.

1965: Charles E. Carolyne of Charles Carolyne Inc. on Phelps Street is elected a director of the Ohio Retail Jewelers Association.

Ursuline High School wins the sweepstakes award for most team points in the annual East High School Debate Tournament.

The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals turns down a request for a rehearing of the conviction of Lenine Strollo and Vincent Serman of Youngstown on counterfeit charges.

1940: In the biggest shake-up in six years, Youngstown Police Chief John Turnbull shifts the assignments of 15 policemen and re-establishes the vice squad.

Mayor William B. Spagnola pledges his support for a Youngstown municipal baseball stadium, calling it a “worthy project of public interest.”

The midwinter rush to hospitals is unusually heavy and a bit early, with the North and South units of the Youngstown Hospital Association, which have a capacity of 450, reporting 380 patients and St. Elizabeth, with a capacity of 262, having 250.

Woodrow Wilson, Youngstown’s newest high school, graduates 82 in its first mid-year class.