Today is Sunday, Jan. 3, the third day of 2016

Today is Sunday, Jan. 3, the third day of 2016. There are 363 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1521: Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X.

1777: Gen. George Washington’s army routs the British in the Battle of Princeton, N.J.

1870: Groundbreaking takes place for the Brooklyn Bridge.

1888: The first wax drinking straw is patented by Marvin C, Stone in Washington, D.C.

1899: The first known use of the word automobile is published in an editorial in The New York Times.

1911: The first postal savings banks are opened by the U.S. Post Office. (The banks were abolished in 1966.)

1933: Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a legislative speaker position anywhere in the United States.

1938: The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who himself had been afflicted with the crippling disease.

1946: William Joyce, the pro-Nazi radio propagandist known as “Lord Haw-Haw,” is hanged at Wandsworth Prison in London for high treason.

1949: In a pair of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court says that states have the right to ban closed shops.

1959: Alaska becomes the 49th state as President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a proclamation.

1967: Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies in a Dallas hospital.

1977: Apple Computer is incorporated in Cupertino, Calif., by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Makkula Jr.

1980: Conservationist Joy Adamson, author of “Born Free,” is killed in northern Kenya by a former employee.

1988: Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century.

1990: Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrenders to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican’s diplomatic mission.

2000: The last new daily “Peanuts” strip by Charles Schulz runs in 2,600 newspapers.

2006: Lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleads guilty to providing gifts to officials in exchange for their help; he agrees to cooperate in investigations of corruption in Congress.

Iran tells the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency it plans to resume nuclear fuel research.

Militants break into the home of an Afghan headmaster and decapitates him in the latest in a spate of attacks blamed on the Taliban that have forced many schools to close.

2011: Democrat Jerry Brown is sworn in as California’s 39th governor, returning to the office he’d left 28 years earlier.

Prosecutors in Dallas declare Cornelius Dupree Jr. innocent of a rape and robbery that had put him in prison for 30 years.

2015: Boko Haram extremists kidnap about 40 boys and young men and kill scores of soldiers in a bold attack on a multinational military base in northern Nigeria.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: The Ohio Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal of Youngstown’s residency rule, effectively allowing city workers hired before 1988 to live where they please.

EZ Communications of Virginia says it should have a cellular telephone system operating in Columbiana County by the end of the year.

ASC Inc. in North Jackson says it is adding 70 employees to its work force to produce the new Chevrolet Cavalier convertible that was unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Cavalier convertibles, first produced in 1988, were discontinued during the 1990 model year.

1976: Citing fears following an explosion at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, Youngstown Municipal Airport Manager Fred DeLuca says 14 storage lockers are being removed from the terminal. DeLuca says the small revenue the lockers produce isn’t worth endangering the safety of people using the airport.

Gerald L. Fennell, 41, former principal of Harding Elementary School who left education to pursue the ministry, is ordained at Christ United Presbyterian Church, where he will be an associate minister.

Ohio State University Coach Woody Hayes continues to refuse to discuss with the press his team’s upset loss to UCLA on New Year’s Day that cost the Buckeyes a national championship. Ohio State officials cancel a “welcome home” rally at St. John Arena, saying the players and Hayes wanted to go straight home after arriving in Columbus.

1966: A combination of murky weather and chuckholes in the runway at Youngstown Municipal Airport causes the cancellation of several weekend United Airlines flights.

Judy Zundel, a senior at East Palestine High School, wins the Columbiana County Junior Miss pageant.

The East Ohio Gas Co. announces plans for $859,000 in improvements in the Warren district in 1966.

Safecrackers take about $4,000 from the office of Tastee Foods Service Inc. in the Voyager Motor Inn in downtown Youngstown.

1941: An armed robber invades the Douglas Avenue home of the Tablac family and holds John Tablac Jr., 16, captive while ransacking the home and taking $53 from a dining room drawer.

The Mahoning Avenue Bridge is reopened after four months of repairs by the Emanuel Katzman Construction Co.

Coach Jack Guy’s Canfield High School cagers try for their eighth victory in nine games when facing Greenford. The team’s only loss has been to Newton Falls, 42-40.

An eight-family apartment building designed by local architect Frank F. Smith is being built by Edward J. DeBartolo on Hillman Way at Prestwick Drive.