Years Ago

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2016. There are 361 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1066: Edward the Confessor, King of England since 1042, dies after a reign of nearly 24 years.

1781: A British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va.

1905: The National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals is incorporated in New York State.

1914: Auto industrialist Henry Ford announces he is going to pay workers $5 for an eight-hour day, as opposed to $2.34 for a nine-hour day. (Employees still worked six days a week; the five-day work week was instituted in 1926.)

1925: Democrat Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming takes office as America’s first female governor, succeeding her late husband, William, after a special election.

1933: The 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, dies in Northampton, Mass., at age 60.

Construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge. (Work was completed four years later.)

1949: In his State of the Union address, President Harry S. Truman labels his administration the Fair Deal.

1970: Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, is found murdered with his wife and daughter at their Clarksville, Pa., home. (UMWA President Tony Boyle and seven others were convicted of, or pleaded guilty to, the killings.)

“All My Children” premieres on ABC-TV.

1983: President Ronald Reagan announces he is nominating Elizabeth Dole to succeed Drew Lewis as secretary of transportation. (Dole became the first woman to head a Cabinet department in Reagan’s administration, and the first to head the DOT.)

1994: Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, former speaker of the House of Representatives, dies in Boston at age 81.

2006: Attacks across Iraq kill more than 120 Iraqis and 11 U.S. service members.

2011: John Boehner is elected speaker as Republicans regain control of the House of Representatives on the first day of the new Congress.

Jury selection begins in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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1991: Mahoning County ranks third in the state in the amount of money paid to welfare cheats, according to a three-year study by the Ohio Auditor’s Office.

Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Robert Nader announces that he has decided not to retire before assuming a court of appeals judgeship. Nader would have received his salary of $89,700 and retirement of $35,000 a year if he had “double dipped.”

1976: Police arrest a 48-year-old East Side man for questioning in the shotgun death of James Cottle Sr., 59, of Dale Street, who was found lying in North Hine Street after being shot during an argument over a pistol.

E.R. Copeland, weather observer at Millport, says Columbiana County registered its second-wettest year in 1975 with 140 wet days and rainfall of 46.75 inches. The only wetter year was 1898, with 51 inches of precipitation.

Chuck Noll’s Steelers advance to the Super Bowl with a 16-10 victory over John Madden’s Oakland Raiders on a cold, snowy day at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh.

1966: Fire of undetermined origin causes $100,000 damage to the warehouse of General Housewares Corp. on Grant Street in Niles. Fireman Raymond T. Mullen escaped with singed eyebrows when an explosion knocked him down while he was applying water to the flames.

Wilbur B. Young, retired contractor and real-estate developer, dies of a heart ailment. He was a leading figure in real-estate appraisals and could quote purchasers and the price of parcels sold in the past half-century.

Frank Tuseck, Lisbon industrialist, purchases the Erie City Manufacturing Co. in Erie, Pa., a maker of wheelchairs sold under the trade name “Arrow.” The company observes its 25th anniversary and employs 75 people.

1941: Dr. William James Durant, one of the foremost American philosophers and historians, will speak in Youngstown under the auspices of the Friends of the Youngs-town College Library.

Ohio school teachers who have proper certificates and five years of continuous employment by a board of education would be protected by civil service under a bill introduced in the Ohio Senate by state Sen. Maurice Lipscher.

Annie Lee Stagg is appointed a commentator and director of women’s activities for radio station WFMJ. Miss Stagg, of Jacksonville, Fla., is a graduate of Stevens College in Columbia, Mo.