YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2016. There are 352 days left in the year.

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1784: The United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War; Britain follows suit in April 1784.

1814: The Treaty of Kiel ends hostilities between Denmark and Sweden, with Denmark agreeing to cede Norway to Sweden, something Norway refuses to accept.

1900: Puccini’s opera “Tosca” has its world premiere in Rome.

1914: Ford Motor Co. greatly improves its assembly-line operation by employing an endless chain to pull each chassis along at its Highland Park plant.

1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle open a wartime conference in Casablanca.

1952: NBC’s “Today” show premieres, with Dave Garroway as the host, or “communicator.”

1954: Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio are married at San Francisco City Hall. (The marriage lasted about nine months.)

1963: George C. Wallace is sworn in as governor of Alabama with the pledge, “Segregation forever!” – a view Wallace later repudiated.

Sylvia Plath’s novel “The Bell Jar” is published in London under a pseudonym less than a month before Plath commits suicide.

1966: Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue in Manhattan are converted from two-way to one-way streets to improve traffic flow. (To this day, vehicles head south on Fifth, while traveling north on Madison.)

1975: The House Internal Security Committee (formerly the House Un-American Activities Committee) is disbanded.

1989: President Ronald Reagan delivers his 331st and final weekly White House radio address, telling listeners, “Believe me, Saturdays will never seem the same. I’ll miss you.”

1994: President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign an accord to stop aiming missiles at any nation; the leaders join Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk in signing an accord to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.

2006: The chief judge in Saddam Hussein’s trial submits his resignation (he was succeeded by Raouf Rasheed Abdel-Rahman).

Academy Award- winning actress Shelley Winters dies in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 85.

2011: In an unprecedented popular uprising, Tunisian protesters enraged over soaring unemployment and corruption drive President Zine El Abdine Ben Ali from power after 23 years of iron-fisted rule.

The national Republican Party ousts chairman Michael Steele and chooses Wisconsin party chief Reince Priebus to lead in the run-up to the 2012 presidential race.

2015: The al-Qaida branch in Yemen claims responsibility for the attack on the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris.

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1991: U.S. Rep. Thomas Ridge of Erie, Pa., R-21st, says that as a Vietnam War veteran, his vote to send American troops into battle against Iraq in Kuwait was the most- difficult vote of his career. Ridge was the only area congressman voting for the resolution; U.S. Reps. James A. Traficant Jr., Douglas Applegate, Dennis Eckart and Joseph Kolter, all Democrats, voted against the measure.

Gov. George Voinovich is sworn in as Ohio’s 65th governor in a private ceremony at 12:02 a.m. attended by family and friends about 12 hours before before a public ceremony outside the Statehouse.

Jeffrey A Scrim, a New Castle firefighter and president of the New Castle Board of Education, says Pennsylvania law should be amended to prohibit teacher strikes, replacing the right to strike with binding arbitration, similar to that governing police and firefighters. New Castle has had six teacher strikes since 1969, including one that went from Sept. 19 to Dec. 5 in 1990.

1976: Nearly 1,000 people attend a meeting at Lake-view High School in Cortland, where speakers urge property owners to withhold payment of tax bills to protest higher property taxes caused by countywide reappraisals that increased the county’s valuation by 31 percent.

East Liverpool grocer Irvin C. Keefer, 60, is gunned down at close range during a robbery at his store on Route 267.

Youngstown Police Chief Donald G. Baker confirms that an inquiry is being conducted into a complain that “unnecessary force” was used Dec. 21 in arresting a man for shooting at two off-duty policemen.

1966: Five children of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mayer, ranging in age from 15 months to 9 years, die in a fire at 211 Lutton St., New Castle, Pa. Dead are Norman Dale, 9; Debbie Lynn, 7; David Bryan, 5; Jodi Robin, 4, and Timothy Wade, 15 months.

Bishop Emmet M. Walsh, head of the Youngstown Diocese, marks 50 years in the priesthood with a Mass in the chapel of St. Elizabeth Hospital, where he is a patient. Local priests will present him with a handmade French chalice.

Andrew G. Forrest is named chief metallurgist for Republic Steel Corp., succeeding William Rodgers, who retired.

1941: Youngstown Councilman Carl L. Fishel says that Mayor William Spagnola and his police department should not stop at eliminating marble boards from the city but should also go after penny slots.

City council clears the way for construction of a Warner movie theater on Belmont Avenue by extending commercial B zoning 180 feet eastward along Francisca Avenue.

Mahoning County commissioners are considering installation of a semiautomatic telephone switchboard in the Courthouse. Clerk John Rheil will meet with Ohio Bell Telephone Co. officials to discuss the cost.