Sunday, January 31, 2016
Today is Sunday, Jan. 31, the 31st day of 2016. There are 335 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1606: Guy Fawkes, convicted of treason for his part in the “Gunpowder Plot” against the English Parliament and King James I, is executed.
Gen. Robert E. Lee is named general-in-chief of the Confederate States Army by President Jefferson Davis.
1915: Entertainer and TV personality Garry Moore is born in Baltimore.
1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Gold Reserve Act.
1945: Pvt. Eddie Slovik, 24, becomes the first U.S. soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion as he is shot by an American firing squad in France.
1950: President Harry S. Truman announces he has ordered development of the hydrogen bomb.
1958: The United States enters the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satellite into orbit, Explorer I.
1961: NASA launches Ham the Chimp aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral; Ham is recovered safely from the Atlantic Ocean after his 161/2-minute suborbital flight.
1971: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa blast off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon.
1990: McDonald’s Corp. opens its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow.
2000: An Alaska Airlines MD-83 jet crashes into the Pacific Ocean off Port Hueneme, Calif., killing all 88 people aboard.
2005: Jury selection begins in Santa Maria, Calif., for Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial. (Jackson was later acquitted.)
2006: In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush declares that America has to break its long dependence on Mideast oil and rebuked critics of his stay-the-course strategy for the unpopular war in Iraq.
2010: Beyonc becomes the first woman to win six Grammy Awards in one night.
2011: A federal judge in Florida declares the Obama administration’s health care overhaul unconstitutional, siding with 26 states that argued people cannot be required to buy health insurance.
2015: Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of the late singer Whitney Houston, is found unresponsive in a bathtub at her Georgia townhouse and was taken to an Atlanta-area hospital. She died six months later.
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1991: Terry and Becky Murray of Boardman, employees of the Saudi Arabian International School Academy, are home after escaping from the city of Jubail after American warplanes began bombing in Iraq on Jan. 16.
Longtime Warren Fire Chief Roger Hernon says he will retire in February so that he can run for mayor in the May Democratic primary.
School officials in Mahoning County say they are disappointed but not surprised by the results of ninth-grade proficiency tests that showed large numbers of students in many districts failing.
1976: By a margin of 788 votes, residents of Campbell pass a 10.8-mill school levy. It was the sixth try in three years, but the first since city schools were closed for 21 days in December because of a lack of funds.
Speaking at the 61st annual banquet of the Mahoning Valley McKinley Club at the McKinley Memorial in Niles, U.S. Sen. Robert A. Taft Jr. decries the regulatory overburden that government places on industry and the cost of regulation that is passed on to consumers.
The East Side home of former Youngstown police officer Cornelious Cobbin is destroyed by arsonists who poured flammable liquid through several sections of the home at 2134 Kimmel St.
1966: The exhaust of a United Airlines Boeing 727 jet blows out a glass wall at Youngstown Municipal Airport’s restaurant injuring three people slightly and wrecking the restaurant’s interior. Damage is estimated at $10,000.
Work resumes at the United Engineering & Foundry Co. after the union ratifies a new contract, ending a strike that began Nov. 6.
The Most Rev. James W. Malone is named apostolic administrator of the Youngstown Diocese by Pope Paul VI, with full authority to govern the diocese.
1941: Guy Clupper, city parking-meter repairman, is appointed superintendent of Mahoning County Infirmary, and Edna Stroh is named assistant relief director and secretary to the director by the county commissioners.
The old Reno home on Bryson Street is bought by the YMCA for the rapidly expanding engineering department of Youngstown College. The house, bought for $5,000, will be the fourth structure on the growing campus.