Today is Sunday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2016

Today is Sunday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2016. There are 342 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1742: Charles VII is elected Holy Roman emperor during the War of the Austrian Succession.

1848: James W. Marshall discovers a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern California, a discovery that leads to the gold rush of 1849.

1908: The Boy Scouts movement begins in England under the aegis of Robert Baden-Powell.

1935: Beer is first sold in cans in Richmond, Va., by the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Co.

1942: The Roberts Commission places much of the blame for America’s lack of preparedness for Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, the Navy and Army commanders.

1945: Associated Press war correspondent Joseph Morton is among a group of captives executed by the Germans at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria.

1961: A U.S. Air Force B-52 crashes near Goldsboro, N.C., dropping its payload of two nuclear bombs, neither of which goes off; three crew members are killed.

1963: A U.S. Air Force B-52 on a training mission crashes into Elephant Mountain in Maine after encountering turbulence and losing its vertical stabilizer; seven of the nine crew members are killed.

1965: British statesman Winston Churchill dies in London at age 90.

1975: The extremist group FALN bombs Fraunces Tavern in New York City, killing four people.

Comedian Larry Fine, of “Three Stooges” fame, dies in Los Angeles at age 72.

1985: The space shuttle Discovery is launched from Cape Canaveral on the first secret, all-military shuttle mission.

1989: Confessed serial killer Theodore Bundy is executed in Florida’s electric chair.

2011: A suicide bomber blows himself up in Moscow’s busiest airport, killing 37 people; Chechen separatists claimed responsibility.

In his second court appearance, Jared Lee Loughner pleads not guilty in Phoenix to federal charges he’d tried to kill U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides in a Tucson shooting rampage that has claimed six lives.

2015: Parts of the Northeast get their first real taste of winter as a storm dumps rain, sleet and snow as it moves up the coast.

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1991: The Trumbull Correctional Institution may delay its opening if county commissioners don’t approve a sewer agreement with the city, says Mayor Daniel Sferra.

Despite frigid temperatures and icy roads, 200 members of Neighborhood Crime Watch meet to hear what they could do to help catch a burglar that Austintown police say broke into 21 homes in December and, after a short vacation, appears to be back to work.

A homeless survey conducted in Youngstown is unpleasantly surprising the canvassers, who say their month-long count of 549 homeless people is higher than expected.

1976: A 15-year-old Hayes Junior High School girl is abducted from a bus stop by three men and turned over to a fourth man, who told them to take her back because they’d kidnapped the wrong person.

General Motors announces that it will shut down the Lordstown assembly plant that produces Chevrolet Vegas and Pontiac Asters for one week beginning Feb. 9 to adjust inventory.

Two Youngstown men, Anthony Poyssick, 19, and Edward C. Wilson, 22, die in an arson fire at the Yankee Trader, a furniture/appliance store in Toronto, Ohio.

1966: Some 9,000 people 65 years old or older in Mahoning County who haven’t signed up for the supplemental medical part of Medicare are reminded to do so before the March 31 deadline.

The Youngstown area has its first major snowfall of the season, 11.5 inches. Lawrence County, Pa., had more than 16 inches.

Fire of unknown origin causes a $4,000 fire at the Oregon Trail home of David Sample Sr. No one was home, but the pet dog was found unconscious and revived by firemen.

1941: Lowellville Postmaster Lee B. Milligan, chairman of the annual President’s Birthday Committee, announces that Mayor Ralph Seronsy will be chairman of the reception committee. Other committee members are O.W. Lenhart, John Chuey, Dr. J.C. Vance, H.W. Williams, M.W. Vanich and Raymond McBride.

The Mahoning Valley Chapter of the Ohio University Women meets at Raver’s Tavern. Miss Gertrude Maier is chairman.