Today is Monday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2016. There are 341 days left in the year.
Today is Monday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2016. There are 341 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1533: England’s King Henry VIII secretly marries his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
1890: Reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) of the New York World completes a round-the-world journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.
The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1924: The first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix, France.
1947: American gangster Al Capone dies in Miami Beach, Florida, at age 48.
1955: The Soviet Union formally ends its state of war with Germany.
1961: President John F. Kennedy has the first presidential news conference to be carried live on radio and television.
1971: Charles Manson and three women followers are convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate.
1981: The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrive in the U.S.
1990: An Avianca Boeing 707 runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck, Long Island, N.Y.; 73 of the 158 people aboard are killed.
2006: In his first encyclical, “God Is Love,” Pope Benedict XVI says the Roman Catholic Church has a duty through its charitable work to influence political leaders to ease suffering and promote justice.
2011: Pleading for unity in a newly divided government, President Barack Obama uses his State of the Union address to implore Democrats and Republicans to rally behind his vision of economic revival, declaring: “We will move forward together or not at all.”
2015:“Birdman” wins best ensemble from the Screen Actors Guild, a day after winning the top honor at the Producer Guild Awards.
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1991: Census figures show people moved away from the industrial Northeast of Ohio in the 1980s and toward the state capital.
Mahoning County Prosecutor James A. Philomena says Mahoning County spends nearly $9,500 a year on private parking spaces for select employees and suggests that at a time when the county is in a budget crunch, employees should pay for their own parking.
Peter J. Schmitt Co. calls together representatives of its four major unions to discuss ways of saving money in the face of declining sales and problems at its new North Jackson warehouse.
1976: The East Ohio Gas Co. has cut by almost half its 1976 capital improvement program, saying it plans to spend $23 million companywide and about $900,000 in Greater Youngstown.
An amazing scientific wonder, the laser beam, is being put to work increasingly in Youngstown district businesses.
The university hospital in Fukuoka, Japan, is studying the Youngstown Hospital Association’s DIVOTS, the world’s first computerized laboratory test-results system. DIVOTS stands for Direct Input-Voice Output Telephone System and was pioneered under direction of Dr. Arthur E. Rappoport.
1966: Winter’s first snowfall finds Austintown Township unprepared. A new truck replaced one traded in, but it takes three days to install a plow and bed.
Mahoning Common Pleas Judge Sidney J. Rigelhaupt will hear a request for an injunction to stop Youngstown from imposing a $1,500-a-year license fee on mechanical amusement devices.
1941: Mahoning County draft board members join friends and relatives in seeing off the largest collection of volunteers and selectees off to the Cleveland Induction Center.
Liberty High School cagers win their eighth game in 10 starts, defeating Lordstown, 49-20. Excellent passing and shooting by Tunison and Clark lead to the victory.