YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2015. There are 335 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1615: Thomas Rolfe, the only child of John Rolfe and his wife, Rebecca (the former Pocahontas), is born in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.

1649: England’s King Charles I is executed for treason.

1815: The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in agreeing to purchase the personal book collection of former President Thomas Jefferson to replace volumes lost when the British burned the U.S. Capitol and its congressional library during the War of 1812.

1882: The 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is born in Hyde Park, N.Y.

1911: James White, an intellectually disabled black man who’d been convicted of rape for having sex with a 14-year-old white girl when he was 16, is publicly hanged in Bell County, Ky.

1933: Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany.

The first episode of the “Lone Ranger” radio program is broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit.

1945: During World War II, more than 500 Allied captives held at the Japanese prison camp in Cabanatuan in the Philippines are liberated by U.S. Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrilla fighters.

Adolf Hitler marks the 12th anniversary of his appointment as Germany’s chancellor with his last public speech in which he calls on Germans to keep resisting until victory.

1948: Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, is shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed.)

1962: Two members of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act are killed when their seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance at the State Fair Coliseum in Detroit.

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1990: The Trumbull County Republican Party, in its first endorsement for governor in years, gives its support to George Voinovich over Robert Taft II.

Mahoning Valley basic cable television rates rose about 50 percent between 1986 and 1989. Warner cable went from $10.45 to $15.95 and Armstrong from $10.25 to $15.40.

The Rescue Mission asks the city of Youngstown to donate 3 acres of Chase Park in the Westlake Terrace housing development as the site for a new $1.85 million center for homeless women and children.

1975: Youngstown Councilman William R. Shranko, R-4th Ward, turns over to Law Director William Higgins a report alleging misuse of equipment and materials by some city employees at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Nearly 200 municipal employees in Campbell who have not been paid yet in 1975 file suit in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court seeking an order that the city pay their wages and salaries. City administrators have questioned the legality of a temporary pay ordinance approved by city council.

The Community Environmental Council recommends dredging Newport and Glacier lakes in Mill Creek Park, which are filling with silt and sludge due to nearby road improvements and housing development.

1965: Engine No. 88 pulls the last Pennsylvania Railroad commuter train from Cleveland to Youngstown. The conductor kissed the lady passengers goodbye at every stop and passengers toasted the last trip with scotch.

James Beeghly is elected to the two remaining years of a term on the County Library Board, replacing the late Msgr. Alfred J. Heinrich.

Canfield Band Parents sponsors a Sunday concert featuring the Miami University Men’s Glee Club singing a varied program of sacred and secular music in the Canfield High Auditorium.

1940: Picturing President Roosevelt as a man “with the voice of Jacob and the hand of Esau who fishes for suckers both on land and sea,” Congressman Dewey Short of Missouri lambastes the New Deal before 800 people at the annual McKinley Club Banquet in Niles.

About 800 people attend opening night of the Junior Chamber of Commerce circus at the Rayen-Wood Auditorium. Keeping a tradition, the circus offers a Wild West show after the regular performance featuring Buddy Montana, movie actor and circus star.

January is on track to set a record for coldness in Youngstown, with an average temperature of 16.8 degrees.