Today is Monday, Jan. 2, the second day of 2017. There are 363 days left in the year.

January 2, 2017 at 12:00a.m.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1788: Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1792: The first classes begin at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

1900: U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announces the “Open Door Policy” to facilitate trade with China.

1921: Religious services are broadcast on radio for the first time as KDKA in Pittsburgh airs the regular Sunday service of the city’s Calvary Episcopal Church.

1942: The Philippine capital of Manila is captured by Japanese forces during World War II.

1967: Republican Ronald Reagan takes the oath of office as the new governor of California.

1974: President Richard Nixon signs legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 miles an hour as a way of conserving gasoline in the face of an OPEC oil embargo.

2006: A methane gas explosion at the Sago Mine in West Virginia kills 12 miners, but one miner, Randal McCloy Jr., is eventually rescued.

2007: The state funeral for former President Gerald R. Ford begins with an elaborate service at Washington National Cathedral, then moves to Grand Rapids, Mich.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Catholic Churches in the Mahoning Valley will mount a fund-raising drive to help keep Immaculate Conception and St. Patrick schools open for at least another school year.

Youngstown-area job-placement officers expect the pickings to be slim in 1977 and suggest that job hunters seek training to gain the skills needed for the few positions that will be open.

Niles’ new mayor, Ralph Infante Jr., says his first priority will be to restore unity among feuding police captains on the police force.

1977: Three Youngstown-area residents die of exposure over the New Year’s weekend when temperatures dropped into the low teens. Luther Myatt, 56, was found frozen to the couch on the front porch of his sparsely furnished home at 1028 High St.; the body of Harvey Pugh, 50, of Hillman Street, was found in a vacant building on the South Side; and the body of Bessie Harris, 87, was found in a front yard at 1066 Compass West in Austintown.

Vindicator reporters have begun using Teleram portable computer terminals that allow the instantaneous transmission of stories to the main office. Reporter Bill Thomas will use one of the machines while covering the Youngstown schools desegregation trial in U.S. District Court in Akron.

Amy Gillis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Addison Gillis, arrives two days early to become Youngstown’s first baby of 1977.

1967: A total of $49.6 million in interstate highway projects on Interstate 80 and 680 in the Youngstown area are scheduled for 1967.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Korhan of Youngstown have the first baby of the new year, a daughter, Kathleen, born at St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Mary Anderson, 16, is treated at St. Elizabeth Hospital for a cut of the eye from flying glass after someone fired a bullet through the window of her family’s home at 140 N. Lane.

Donald Brown of Mount Everett Road, Hubbard, reports counting 50 robins in his front yard on New Year’s Day.

1942: Nationals of Germany, Italy and Japan living in Youngstown must turn in their weapons, cameras and short-wave radios to the police department, under an order by Francis Kavanaugh, U.S. attorney for northern Ohio.

Between 200 and 300 new automobiles are “frozen” in stock in area salesrooms under the new federal ban on the sale of new cars or trucks. Several new-car purchasers who did not take delivery yet are caught in the order.

A new use for Christmas savings clubs is to save money for income taxes, local banks find. Three district banks continue the clubs because they “teach the art of saving money.”