Today is Thursday, Jan. 7, the seventh day of 2016

Today is Thursday, Jan. 7, the seventh day of 2016. There are 359 days left in the year.

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1789: America has its first presidential election as voters choose electors who, a month later, would select George Washington to be the nation’s first chief executive.

2015: Masked gunmen storm the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French newspaper that had caricatured the Prophet Mohammad, methodically killing 12 people, including the editor.

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1991: State Rep. Ronald Gerberry, D-71st of Austintown, says he will sponsor a bill aimed at reducing waste being brought to Ohio’s landfills and at reducing the amount of waste generated by businesses by encouraging recycling.

Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana, Mercer and Lawrence counties recorded 42 homicides in 1990.

Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro asks YSU President Neil Humphrey for the university’s support for construction of a convocation center downtown.

1976: Firemen from 10 communities work several hours to bring a general-alarm fire under control at the Mellinger Lumber Co. in Leetonia. The loss is estimated at $100,000.

The second class to be admitted to the six-year BS/MD program at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine will be held to 42 students instead of 70 as originally planned because of a shortage of clinical teaching facilities.

U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney announces that he will be a candidate for re-election to a fourth term as representative of the 19th Congressional District.

1966: Three pieces of promotional material for the 1965 Canfield Fair, all done by Howard Aley, take second and third places at the International Association of Fairs and Exhibitions at Chicago.

Two Salem High School seniors, Cindy Mancuso and Charles Alexander, are selected “Students of the Month” by student council.

Louis Seltzer retires after 38 years as editor of the Cleveland Press. He had been with the paper for 50 years and helped build it to a circulation of 370,759.

1941: Reacting to the publication of a picture of strip-tease artist Gypsy Rose Lee in Life magazine, Youngstown Police Prosecutor Forrest Cavalier leads three vice squad officers on raids at eight newsstands, confiscating about $150 worth of “salacious” material. Mayor William Spagnola had banned the Jan. 6 issue of Life from sale in the city.

Police Prosecutor Forrest Cavalier makes an urgent appeal for city council to furnish new municipal courtrooms and offices in city hall. He says suitable rooms are available on the second floor and would need only furnishings.

The Struthers Board of Education approves an appropriation resolution of $266,308 for the 1941-42 school year, a decrease of $24,000 from the previous year due to lower anticipated enrollment.