YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2016. There are 354 days left in the year.

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1773: The first public museum in America is organized in Charleston, S.C.

1828: The United States and Mexico sign a Treaty of Limits defining the boundary between the two countries to be the same as the one established by an 1819 treaty between the U.S. and Spain.

1915: The U.S. House of Representatives rejects, 204-174, a proposed constitutional amendment to give women nationwide the right to vote.

1932: Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate after initially being appointed to serve out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus.

1945: During World War II, Soviet forces begin a major, successful offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe. Aircraft from U.S. Task Force 38 sink about 40 Japanese ships off Indochina.

1959: Berry Gordy Jr. founds Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit.

1966: President Lyndon B. Johnson says in his State of the Union address that the U.S. military should stay in Vietnam until Communist aggression there is stopped.

The TV series “Batman,” inspired by the comic book and starring Adam West and Burt Ward as the Dynamic Duo, premieres on ABC, airing twice a week on consecutive nights.

1971: The groundbreaking situation comedy “All in the Family” premieres on CBS television.

1986: The shuttle Columbia blasts off with a crew that includes the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.

1998: Linda Tripp provides Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

2006: Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, is released from an Istanbul prison after serving more than 25 years in Italy and Turkey for the plot against the pontiff and the slaying of a Turkish journalist.

A stampede breaks out during the Islamic hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, killing 363 people.

2010: Haiti is struck by a magnitude-7 earthquake; the Haitian government has said 316,000 people are killed, while a report prepared for the U.S. Agency for International Development suggests the death toll may be between 46,000 and 85,000.

2011: President Barack Obama visits Tucson, Ariz., the scene of a deadly shooting rampage, where he urges Americans to refrain from partisan bickering and to embrace the idealistic vision of democracy held by 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, the youngest of the victims.

2015: France deploys thousands of troops to protect sensitive sites, including Jewish schools and neighborhoods, in the wake of terror attacks that killed 17.

Ezekiel Elliott rushes for 246 yards and four touchdowns as Ohio State wins the first national title in college football’s playoff era, running over Oregon, 42-20.

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1991: Mahoning County commissioners announce plans to slash most department payrolls by 30 percent, a move that has some officials crying foul.

The Ohio Auditor’s Office will expedite an audit of the $8 million restoration of the Mahoning County Courthouse.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources releases 14 turkeys in Ashtabula County. It was the first time in five years the birds were released in the county.

1976: Three Youngstown area men are arrested by Charlotte, N.C., police in what police describe as a ring that passed $250,000 in worthless checks in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Michigan.

An enthusiastic crowd of 1,000 honors New Castle High’s WPIAL state football champions at the Red Hurricane Banquet at the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Headliners include Penn State Coach Joe Paterno and New Castle native Chuck Tanner, the new manager of the Oakland A’s baseball team.

Dr. Clara Elizabeth Cockerille, professor emeritus of Westminster College and a Fulbright scholar, dies in Jameson Memorial Hospital in New Castle at age 70.

1966: Harry Holden, 36, of Pittsburgh, a suspect in the Dec. 17 robbery of the Buttar Uptown Jewelry Store, is one of three people wounded in an exchange of gunfire with Pittsburgh police during an attempted hold-up at a Pittsburgh tavern owner’s home.

Robert Beach, owner of Personalized Diaper Service, 4529 Mahoning Ave., escapes serious injury when upon opening the door of his business, a natural-gas explosion and fire hurled him to the sidewalk in front of the building.

Advertisement: A&P supermarket has whole fryers at 29 cents a pound, five loaves of Jane Parker Bread for 89 cents and two dozen doughnuts for 49 cents.

1941: An investigator for the bituminous coal division of the Department of the Interior will come to Youngstown to investigate complaints that the Guffey Coal Act is seriously affecting Youngstown district mills and strip mines.

Applications for enrollment in technical courses in fields essential to national defense will open at Youngstown College. High school graduates with some college training or work experience in steel are eligible.

Youngstown Panhellenic Association plans a dinner at the Youngstown Club. Mrs. Everett Schofield of Indianapolis, grand president of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and prominent in National Panhellenic Congress, will be the speaker.