Sunday, January 25, 2015
Today is Sunday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2015. There are 340 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1533: England’s King Henry VIII secretly marries his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gives birth to Elizabeth I.
1890: Reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) of the New York World completes a round-the-world journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.
The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1915: America’s first official transcontinental telephone call takes place as Alexander Graham Bell, who was in New York, spoke to his former assistant, Thomas Watson, who was in San Francisco, over a line set up by American Telephone & Telegraph.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in Coppage v. Kansas, upholds the right of employers to bar employees from belonging to labor unions by making them sign a “yellow dog contract.”
1945: The World War II Battle of the Bulge ends as German forces are pushed back to their original positions.
Grand Rapids, Mich., becomes the first community to add fluoride to its public water supply.
1947: American gangster Al Capone dies in Miami Beach, Fla., at age 48.
1961: President John F. Kennedy hold the first presidential news conference to be carried live on radio and television.
1971: Charles Manson and three women followers are convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate.
1981: The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrive in the United States.
Actress Ava Gardner dies in London at age 67.
2010: Iraq hangs Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali” for his role in gassing 5,000 people in a Kurdish village.
2014: Two brothers, 60-years-old Garrick Hopkins and 61-year-old Carl Hopkins, are shot to death south of Barboursville, W. Va., as they toured land that Garrick Hopkins and his wife had purchased; Rodney Black faces two counts of first-degree murder.
A gunman opens fire at a shopping mall in suburban Baltimore, killing two skate shop employees, 21-year-old Brianna Benlolo and 25-year-old Tyler Johnson; shooter Darion Aguilar then kills himself.
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1990: The Beaver Local Board of Education is again asking the state to rule that half-day strikes by its teachers are illegal.
Youngstown Law Director Edwin Romero says the city is entitled to $7,000, or 2 percent, of the $350,000 confiscated by federal officials in area drug raids because the money derived from the sale of drugs in the city and is taxable.
Youngstown-born economist Arthur B. Laffer tells an audience at Hiram College that the U.S. will enjoy a decade of booming success because it is “in the catbird seat” of the world economy.
1975: Someone fired two shotgun blasts through the living-room window of the home of Struthers Auditor John Kovach just minutes after Kovach walked from the room to go to bed and 10 days after his wife received a threatening phone call.
Youngstown firemen respond to a fire at the City Jail after a woman prisoner on the sixth floor placed paper under her mattress and ignited it with her cigarette lighter.
A grand opening is held for the new Kirk Road office of the Home Savings and Loan Co., the company’s sixth branch office.
1965: George Glasgow of Southern Boulevard, retired principal and faculty member at Youngstown University, and a former head of the Civil Service Commission, dies at his home at 78.
Steel Magazine reports that steel production may equal the all-time high of 2.7 million tons for a week that was set in the week ended Dec. 9, 1959.
Archbishop Lawrence Joseph Shehan of Baltimore is the only American among 27 new Catholic cardinals named by Pope Paul VI.
1940: Ronald Weant, 21, of 420 St. Clair St., Girard, is awarded a bronze medal by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission for his role in saving three boys from drowning near Leavittsburg on Jan. 27, 1937. He saved Harold Mullen, 9; William C. Moore Jr., 10, and Thomas R. Moore, 12.
Three Youngstown men are arrested on charges of obtaining money by fraud from the Ohio bureau of unemployment compensation. The cases are the first of their kind in Youngstown.
Dr. Roberta Ma, a Chinese educator, tells the Youngstown Chinese Relief Fund meeting at the YMCA that the people of China need “crumbs” from Americans. A penny will provide one destitute Chinese a meal, and $1 will feed him for a month.