YEARS AGO
Today is Monday, Jan. 18, the 18th day of 2016. There are 348 days left in the year. This is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
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On this date in:
1778: English navigator Captain James Cook reaches the present-day Hawaiian Islands, which he names the “Sandwich Islands.”
1911: The first landing of an aircraft on a ship takes place as pilot Eugene B. Ely brings his Curtiss biplane in for a safe landing on the deck of the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Harbor.
1919: The Paris Peace Conference to negotiate peace treaties to end the First World War opens in Versailles, France.
1936: Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling, 70, dies in London.
1967: Albert DeSalvo, who claims to be the “Boston Strangler,” is convicted in Cambridge, Mass., of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. (Sentenced to life, DeSalvo was killed in prison in 1973.)
1993: The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is observed in all 50 states for the first time.
2001: President Bill Clinton, in a farewell from the Oval Office, tells the nation that America has “done well” during his presidency, with record-breaking prosperity and a cleaner environment.
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1991: Trumbull County Sheriff Richard Jakmas says children ought to be more aware of the danger of blasting caps after a small explosion on a school bus carrying 30 students from Baker Elementary School in Fowler Township injured two boys.
U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. of Poland says President Bush should have assassinated Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, despite an executive order handed down in 1981 by former President Ronald Reagan prohibiting assassinations. But Traficant, who voted against going to war in the Persian Gulf, says he now supports the decision and calls for a unified nation to support the effort.
Mahoning County Auditor George J. Tablack has raised his payroll by nearly $200,000 since 1986, prompting Commissioner Thomas J. Carney to question the auditor’s criticism of rising costs in other offices.
1976: The government’s International Trade Commission decides that imports of stainless and other “specialty” steels are injuring the domestic industry.
Brothers Michael and Joseph Ficocelli, well-known Youngstowners who formed the Youngstown Symphony nearly 50 years ago, have recently formed the Sunshine City Pop Orchestra in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Joseph Malandro of New Castle, Pa., who was hired as a laborer by Universal Sanitary Manufacturing Co., forerunner of Universal-Rundle Corp. in 1929, retires after 47 years with the company. During the first 41 years, he never missed a day of work. Before that, he doesn’t remember missing a day of high school.
1966: Youngstown police continue to tow cars, and motorists are flooding the violations bureau office as the traffic division continues to crack down on delinquent parking ticket holders.
Wickliffe Christian Church in Austintown contemplates expansion after the 5-year-old congregation adds 30 new members in one year.
Optometry’s role in the antipoverty program of Ohio is discussed at a meeting of the Ohio Optometry Association in Columbus. Dr. John Guerriero represented the Youngstown district.
1941: With the number of admissions to local hospitals declining, health authorities believe the worst of the influenza epidemic may be over.
Canfield High School’s basketball team chalks up its 11th victory in 13 starts, defeating North Lima 42-23 in the Mahoning County B League. Chester McPhee scored 21 of Canfield’s 42 points.
Dr. J. Boyd Tweed, professor of Bible at Geneva College, will discuss war conditions in Scotland when he addresses the congregation of Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church.