YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2016. There are 355 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1861: Alabama becomes the fourth state to withdraw from the Union.

1913: The first enclosed sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, goes on display at the 13th National Automobile Show in New York.

1935: Aviator Amelia Earhart begins an 18-hour trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., that makes her the first person to fly solo across any part of the Pacific Ocean.

1989: Nine days before leaving the White House, President Ronald Reagan bids the nation farewell in a prime-time address, saying of his eight years in office: “We meant to change a nation, and instead we changed a world.”

2006: A Georgian court convicts Vladimir Arutyunian of trying to assassinate President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili with a grenade in Tbilisi on May 10, 2005, and sentences him to life in prison.

2011: Several hundred mourners remember the victims of the Arizona shooting rampage during a public Mass in Tucson.

2015: More than a million people surge through the boulevards of Paris behind dozens of world leaders walking arm-in-arm in a rally for unity against three days of terror that killed 17 people and changed France.

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1991: Ohio’s lame-duck governor, Richard F. Celeste, commutes the death sentences of eight women, including Rosa Lee Grant of Youngstown, who was sentenced to death in the electric chair for the deaths of her two sons, 1 and 2 years old, in a fire that prosecutors said was set to collect $5,000 in insurance benefits.

Local Democratic chairmen, Dr. William Timmins of Trumbull County and Don L. Hanni Jr. of Mahoning County say outgoing Gov. Richard F. Celeste shunned them while making judicial appointments.

The Liberty Board of Education votes 3-2 to deny an athletic transfer to Freshman Vincent Burton that would allow him to play football at Ursuline during the 1991 football season.

1976: Robert D. Rowland, president of Dollar Savings & Trust Co., receives the Prime Minister Medal for his humanitarian efforts in support of Israel. U.S. Rep. Peter Rodino of New York speaks at the dinner at the Youngstown Country Club.

A photograph of the airplane “Miss Youngstown,” one of three World War II biplanes used to launch air-mail service between Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Cleveland, is featured in a Mainland magazine article on the first 50 years of flight.

The featured speaker at the Niles Frontliner annual banquet Feb. 1 at Mount Carmel School will be Woody Hayes, head football coach of the Ohio State University Buckeyes.

1966: Eight staff physicians organize as “Doctors Emergency Service” and agree to provide full-time duty in the emergency room at St. Elizabeth Hospital. The agreement will replace a practice of requiring all 120 members of the medical staff to work revolving shifts in the ER.

The city transfers land on Lincoln Avenue to Youngstown University for construction of a new $5 million science and engineering building.

Youngstown Area Junior Achievement will conduct a $30,000 fund-raising campaign to allow expansion of the program.

1941: Mae Frew, 18, a cheerleader of New Wilmington High School, dies of a heart attack while cheering her basketball team to victory at Bessemer High. New Wilmington won 46-28.

With the deadline approaching for the removal of marble boards in Youngstown, the drive against gambling devices appears ready to spread. Struthers Mayor William A. Strain says a similar action may be taken in his city.

The Poland High School basketball team sweeps to a 63-41 win over North Lima.