Today is Monday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2016

Today is Monday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2016. There are 362 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1821: The first native-born American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, dies in Emmitsburg, Md.

1896: Utah is admitted as the 45th state.

1904: The Supreme Court, in Gonzalez v. Williams, rules that Puerto Ricans are not aliens and could enter the U.S. freely; however, the court stops short of declaring them U.S. citizens. (Puerto Ricans received U.S. citizenship in 1917.)

1935: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, calls for legislation to provide assistance for the jobless, elderly, impoverished children and the handicapped.

1943: Soviet dictator Josef Stalin makes the cover of Time as the magazine’s 1942 “Man of the Year.”

1951: During the Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces recapture the city of Seoul.

1960: Author and philosopher Albert Camus dies in an automobile accident in Villeblevin, France, at age 46.

1974: President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

1987: Sixteen people are killed when an Amtrak train bound from Washington, D.C., to Boston collides with Conrail locomotives that had crossed into its path from a side track in Chase, Md.

1990: Charles Stuart, who claimed that he’d been wounded and his pregnant wife fatally shot by a robber, leaps to his death off a Massachusetts bridge after he himself comes under suspicion.

1995: The 104th Congress convenes, the first entirely under Republican control since the Eisenhower era.

2007: Nancy Pelosi is elected the first female speaker of the House as Democrats took control of Congress.

2006: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffers a significant stroke; his official powers are transferred to his deputy, Ehud Olmert. (Sharon remained in a coma until his death in January 2014.)

2011: President Barack Obama signs a $1.4 billion overhaul of the nation’s food-safety system.

The Navy fires the commander of the USS Enterprise, Capt. Owen Honors, more than three years after he’d made lewd videos to boost morale for his crew. (Honors was later reprimanded but allowed to remain in the Navy; he retired in 2012.)

2015: Pope Francis names 156 new cardinals, selecting them from 14 countries, including far-flung corners of the world, to reflect the diversity of the Roman Catholic Church and its growth in places such as Asia and Africa.

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1991: Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer is investigating claims that “some personnel” at the Mahoning County Board of Elections altered ballots in the race for state attorney general. Don L. Hanni Jr., chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party, and his son, Mark, deputy director of the board of elections, deny any wrongdoing and say the inquiry will go nowhere.

Sharon Nuzzi, a member of the Warren Board of Education, says a new state law allowing the revocation of drivers’ licenses of students who break school rules should be aggressively enforced.

Nearly 200 workers are laid off at the Eljer Industries Inc. plant in Salem, which employs about 500.

1976: Jerry Blinzley, well known Mahoning Valley conservationist and editor of the 38,000-circulation Outdoor Journal, says he will “do whatever is possible” to block drilling of natural gas on wildlife land in the area unless the state forces drilling companies to follow strict guidelines.

General Motors sees an increase of almost 46 percent in the valuation of four major properties in Trumbull County and an increase in the tax bill of 41 percent. The Vega and van plant at Lords-town increased in value from $19.4 million to $27.4 million, and its tax bill went from $256,783 to $346,700.

Speaking in Youngstown, James Rademacher, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, says the cost of a stamp may have to increase from 13 cents to 23 cents over five years, or else the postal service will need an $8 billion subsidy from Congress.

1966: Police are without clues in the breaking of four bedroom windows and the smashing of an outdoor Madonna at the Lincoln Park Drive home of former Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Don L. Hanni Jr.

Identical twin sons are born a day apart to Mrs. Ronald E. Nelson at North Side Hospital. Richard was born at 11:52 p.m. Jan. 1 and Robert was born at 12:05 a.m. Jan. 2.

Michael A. Bokesch is installed as president of Saxon Club Branch 30 by Gustav Kraft, grand treasurer of the Central Verand. Plans are discussed for constructing a new Saxon Club building.

1941: Traffic Commissioner Clarence W. Coppersmith reports specifications so broad that “anyone can bid” are prepared by city traffic division for 230 downtown parking meters for lease.

The national defense rush forces Sharon’s Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing plant to abandon the 40-hour week and institute a 44-hour week for all 700 office and engineering employees. Factory workers may join the 44-hour week later.

The Junior Chamber of Commerce chooses 32 winners in the home-lighting contest. Top four winners are Ray L. Ruhlman, Midlothian Blvd.; Harry Graebing, Madera Avenue; James L. McLaughlin, Genesee Drive, and Charles McCrudden, Overhill Road.