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Today is Saturday, Jan. 9, the ninth day of 2016. There are 357 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1788: Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1793: Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flies between Philadelphia and Woodbury, N.J.

1861: Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, the same day the Star of the West, a merchant vessel bringing reinforcements and supplies to Federal troops at Fort Sumter, S.C., retreats because of artillery fire.

1913: Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, is born in Yorba Linda, Calif.

1914: The County of Los Angeles opens the country’s first public defender’s office.

1916: The World War I Battle of Gallipoli ends after eight months with an Ottoman Empire victory as Allied forces withdraw.

1931: Bobbi Trout and Edna May Cooper break an endurance record for female aviators as they return to Mines Field in Los Angeles after flying a Curtiss Robin monoplane continuously for 122 hours and 50 minutes.

1945: During World War II, American forces begin landing on the shores of Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines as the Battle of Luzon gets underway, resulting in an Allied victory over Imperial Japanese forces.

1957: Anthony Eden resigns as British prime minister for health reasons; he is succeeded by Harold Macmillan.

1968: The Surveyor 7 space probe makes a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.

1972: Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking by telephone from the Bahamas to reporters in Hollywood, says a purported autobiography of him by Clifford Irving was a fake.

1987: The White House releases a January 1986 memorandum prepared for President Ronald Reagan by Lt. Col. Oliver L. North showing a link between U.S. arms sales to Iran and the release of American hostages in Lebanon.

1997: A Comair commuter plane crashes 18 miles short of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing all 29 people on board.

2006: Confirmation hearings open in Washington for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.

“The Phantom of the Opera” leaps past “Cats” to become the longest-running show in Broadway history (a record that still stands).

2011: Federal prosecutors bring charges against Jared Loughner, the man accused of attempting to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and killing six people at a political event in Tucson the day before.

2015: French security forces shoot and kill two al-Qaida-linked brothers suspected of carrying out the rampage at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that claimed 12 lives, the same day a gunman killed four people at a Paris kosher grocery store before being killed by police.

Samuel Goldwyn Jr., 88, a champion of the independent film movement and son of one of the founders of Hollywood, dies in Los Angeles.

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1991: More than 100 members of the 838th Military Police unit ship out from the Christy Armory in Austintown for duty in Operation Desert Storm.

Erik Larsen, a Californian who is the first reservist to refuse to serve in Operation Desert Storm, tells an audience of about 100 at Youngstown State University that President Bush is abusing the U.S. Constitution and American troops should be pulled out of the Persian Gulf.

Socrates Kolitsos, who is serving his third term on the Youngstown Board of Education, is elected board president. Billy Tanner will serve as vice president.

1976: Raymond Crenshaw, who was disabled in an industrial accident, is rescued from his burning home on St. Louis Avenue by Joseph Layton, the owner of Layton & Sons Grocery, and another neighbor.

The temperature reaches 5 below zero at the Youngstown Municipal Airport, 2 degrees warmer than the record for the date set in 1970.

Ohio’s improving economy means that about 17 percent of the Mahoning Valley’s employed workers will lose an additional 26 weeks of unemployment benefits. While Mahoning County has an unemployment rate of 9.5 percent and Trumbull has 8.5 percent, the state average has fallen below 8 percent, meaning unemployed Ohio residents will lose their benefits after 39 weeks.

1966: Louis McDonald, a veteran of the Mexican border dispute of 1916, presents a brochure reviewing the engagements to the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County.

Dixie XI, a 2-year-old Brittany spaniel owned by Mr. and Mrs. Chester Craig of Lowellville, has a near-record 12 puppies in her first litter. Carl Brown of Girard, president of the Ohio Brittany Club, says seven is the usual number, although the record of 13 was set in Pittsburgh.

Andrew Mitsak of Youngstown is the Ohio winner in the Men’s National Cooking Championship with his recipe for “Yippie Chippie Chowder.” His 16-year-old daughter, Kathleen, is a finalist in the Pillsbury National Bake-Off, which was won by her mother in 1962.

1941:Television, just as it was shown at the New York World’s Fair, will make its debut in Youngstown at the Home Show at Stambaugh Auditorium in March.

Final 1940 census figures give Youngstown a population of 162,720, which is 2,282 less than the 1930 census.

Hubbard’s two largest school buildings are closed after 379 pupils report off sick with influenzalike symptoms.

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