Today is Tuesday, Jan. 3, the third day of 2017. There are 362 days left in the year.

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 3, the third day of 2017. There are 362 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1521: Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X.

1777: Gen. George Washington’s army routs the British in the Battle of Princeton, N.J.

1870: Groundbreaking takes place for the Brooklyn Bridge.

1938: The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who himself is afflicted with the crippling disease.

1947: Congressional proceedings are televised for the first time as viewers in Washington, Philadelphia and New York got to see some of the opening ceremonies of the 80th Congress.

1959: Alaska becomes the 49th state as President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a proclamation.

1967: Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, dies in a Dallas hospital.

1977: Apple Computer is incorporated in Cupertino, Calif., by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Makkula Jr.

2016: Republican presidential contender Donald Trump brushes off an African militant group’s video that shows him calling for Muslims to be banned from coming to the U.S., saying he wouldn’t be dissuaded from saying what he thought.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Three teenagers, a girl, 16 and boys, 17 and 18, plead guilty to nine delinquency charges for aiding a gang leader in the slayings of four young men on Youngstown’s East Side. They face confinement in state juvenile institutions until they are 21.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Peter Economus sentences a 26-year-old Warren man to two to 10 years in prison for causing the death of a boyhood friend in a drag-racing accident, despite appeals for clemency by supporters, including the family of the dead man.

1977: Some 270 members of the Howland Classroom Teachers Association go on strike in defiance of a restraining order issued by visiting judge Sidney J. Rigelhaupt.

The 11th District Court of Appeals overrules a Trumbull County Common Pleas Court order that the Trumbull County commissioners approve the annexation of the “Golden Triangle” from Bazetta and Howland townships to the city of Warren.

George D. “Duke” Tablack, a former state representative and long-time leader of the Mahoning County Democratic Party, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital. He was 75.

1967: The Cleveland Board of Education approves a $450 per year increase for teachers, bringing the salary of a starting teacher with a bachelor’s degree to $5,750. The district has 6,000 teachers.

U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan announces approval of a $374,374 federal grant to launch a building code enforcement program for Youngstown. It includes improvements to houses, streets, public lighting and relocation of displaced families.

1942: Youngstown Patrolman Arthur Moore is indicted by a Mahoning County grand jury on a charge of first-degree manslaughter in the death of John Strazik, who died after being maced during an arrest at Federal and Watt streets.

Carrier salesmen of The Vindicator are swamped with orders for 10-cent defense stamps. A total of 71,140 stamps valued at $7,114 were sold the first two days, more than Philadelphia carriers sold in a week.

Cupid scores 2,665 times in 1941, a record for the Mahoning County marriage license bureau. Clerk Gomer Evans credits the industrial boom and accompanying prosperity.