YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2016. There are 344 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1498: During his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus arrives at the present-day Caribbean island of St. Vincent.

1901: Britain’s Queen Victoria dies at age 81 after a reign of 63 years; she is succeeded by her eldest son, Edward VII.

1917: President Woodrow Wilson pleads for an end to war in Europe, calling for “peace without victory.” (By April, however, America also was at war.)

1922: Pope Benedict XV dies; he is succeeded by Pius XI.

1944: During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio, Italy.

1970: The first regularly scheduled commercial flight of the Boeing 747 begins in New York and ends in London some 61/2 hours later.

1973: The U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, legalizes abortions using a trimester approach.

Former President Lyndon B. Johnson dies at his Texas ranch at age 64.

1995: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy dies at the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 104.

2008: Actor Heath Ledger is found dead of an accidental prescription overdose in New York City; he was 28.

2006: Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first Indian president, takes office with a promise to lift his nation’s struggling indigenous majority out of centuries of poverty and discrimination.

The Pittsburgh Steelers win the AFC title game, dismantling the Denver Broncos 34-17. The Seattle Seahawks claim the NFC title, routing the Carolina Panthers 34-14.

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1991: Sharon Steel Corp. targets Feb. 15 as its date for reopening its Brainard Strapping plant in Warren, where 137 workers lost their jobs in July 1989 when Sharon closed the factory.

The Rev. David Kaminsky, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, says a group advocating establishment of a police community relations board will meet with Mayor Patrick Ungaro to discuss funding strategies.

After 18 years in the Struthers Fire Department, James Campana Jr. resigns to become chief of the Comstock Township, Mich., fire department.

1976: Robert A. Taft II is sworn in as a state representative by Supreme Court Justice Thomas M. Herbert. Attending the swearing-in ceremony is his father, U.S. Sen. Robert A. Taft Jr., R-Ohio.

Merch Moga, 62, one of seven tenants hospitalized after a fire at the Hotel Ohio, dies of burns and asphyxiation in St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Harold Sacherman 49, owner of the Factory Shoe Store at 321 W. Federal Street, is pistol-whipped and shot by two robbers who became frustrated when they couldn’t open a cash register and when Sacherman told them the safe had no money in it.

1966: Seven area jewelers and Carl Wolters, president of the Downtown Board of Trade, meet with police Chief John Terlesky to discuss night patrols of downtown to combat a wave of window-smashing thefts.

The Rev. C. Russell Lundgren is installed as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Niles.

The reopening of Sharon’s West Side fire station is being sought by Councilman Richard McMahon, a former fireman.

1941: Campbell joins Youngstown and Struthers in attempting to eliminate those flashing marble boards that are said to be taking in at least $5,000 weekly in district stores, cafes and night clubs.

Marguerite C. Stemmermann, assistant physician at the Mahoning County Tuberculosis Sanitorium, will leave to become a physician at the U.S. Reformatory for Women at Alderson, W. Va.

Lectures by three Youngstown district men are among the 39 published by the American Economic and Business Foundation. Those honored are George Brainard, J.C. Argetsinger and H.B. McDowell.