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Today is Saturday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2016. There are 336 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1615: Thomas Rolfe, the only child of John Rolfe and his wife, Rebecca (the former Pocahontas), is born in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.
1815: The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in agreeing to purchase the personal book collection of former President Thomas Jefferson to replace volumes lost when the British burned the U.S. Capitol and its congressional library during the War of 1812.
1882: The 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is born in Hyde Park, N.Y.
1933: Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.
1945: During World War II, more than 500 Allied captives held at the Japanese prison camp in Cabanatuan in the Philippines are liberated by U.S. Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrilla fighters.
1948: Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, is shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed.)
Aviation pioneer Orville Wright, 76, dies in Dayton, Ohio.
1968: The Tet Offensive begins during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launch surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.
1969: The Beatles stage an impromptu concert atop Apple headquarters in London; it would be the group’s last public performance.
1972: Thirteen Roman Catholic civil-rights marchers are shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what would become known as “Bloody Sunday.”
2005: Iraqis vote in their country’s first free election in a half-century; President George W. Bush calls the balloting a resounding success.
2006: Exxon Mobil posts record profits for any U.S. company: $10.71 billion for the fourth quarter of 2005 and $36.13 billion for the year.
Video aired by Al-Jazeera shows American journalist Jill Carroll, kidnapped while in Iraq, wearing an Islamic veil and weeping (she was released March 30, 2006).
2011: Egypt’s most-prominent democracy advocate, Mohamed ElBaradei, calls for President Hosni Mubarak to resign during an address to thousands of protesters in Cairo who were defying a curfew for a third night.
2015: Mitt Romney announces that he had put “considerable thought into making another run for president,” but in the end, he decided to give other leaders in the Republican party a chance.
VINDICATOR FILES
1991: Ohio’s new Democratic attorney general, Lee Fisher, files suit seeking to overturn clemency granted by outgoing Gov. Richard F. Celeste, also a Democrat, to 11 inmates lifting death and prison sentences.
Federal lawyers initiate a lawsuit to seize Crown Music and Vending Inc., the business of reputed Mahoning Valley racketeer Orlando Carabbia. Carabbia and an associate are under federal indictment on a charge of operating an illegal gambling business.
Despite a plea from the Mahoning County Board of Elections, Ohio Secretary of State Robert Taft II will not push for repeal of a state law that allows some voters to cast ballots by walking into the board of elections on Election Day.
1976: Ohev Tzedek Temple on Glenwood Avenue celebrates the 50th anniversary of the congregation. The original home of the congregation on Myrtle Avenue in Youngstown is now home to St. James A.M.E. Church.
Atty. Don L. Hanni files suit in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court seeking the reversal of Mayor Jack C. Hunter’s firing of 81 city employees who walked off their jobs. Hunter invoked the Ferguson Act in announcing the firings.
Mayor Jack C. Hunter of Youngstown and Mayor Ralph Perk of Cleveland, both Republicans, meet with congressional leaders in Washington to discuss public-works legislation.
1966: “Modern Math for Puzzled Parents” is the title of a 10-article series by Professor W.F. Lloyd of the University of Tampa that will run in The Vindicator.
Market Motors on Market Street, Dodge dealers since 1946, opens a new Chrysler/ Plymouth dealership on Main Street in Canfield. Owners are W. H. Slater and J.W. Ritter. The Market Street property is sold to Stackhouse Oldsmobile.
1941: Youngstown College receives a gift of 90 German, French, English and Latin books for the library from Miss Philippina Kerwer, former teacher of German at The Rayen School.
Protestant and Catholic church groups have appointed 22 teachers for their programs of religious education at local high schools. Classes will begin Feb. 10 at Youngstown’s East High School.