Today is Wednesday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2017. There are 361 days left in the year.

January 4, 2017 at 12:00a.m.

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On this date in:

1896: Utah is admitted as the 45th state.

1935: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, calls for legislation to provide assistance for the jobless, elderly, impoverished children and the handicapped.

1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers his State of the Union address in which he outlines the goals of his “Great Society.”

1974: President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

1995: The 104th Congress convenes, the first entirely under Republican control since the Eisenhower era.

2007: Nancy Pelosi is elected the first female speaker of the House as Democrats take control of Congress.

2012:Defying Republican lawmakers, President Barack Obama barrels past the Senate by using a recess appointment to name Ohioan Richard Cordray the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

2016: Workers return to their offices at the San Bernardino, Calif., campus where 14 people were killed in a December 2015 terror attack carried out by county restaurant inspector Sayed Farook and his wife.

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1992: Donald Rex, chairman of the Girard City Council Finance Committee, says the city should consider a police and fire levy to cover future costs, including 4 percent pay raises agreed to for each of the next three years for 16 police officers and four dispatchers.

General Motors unveils its Ultralite, an experimental car that can achieve 100 mph and 100 mpg. But it’s too expensive to produce, with its carbon fiber body costing $40 a pound, compared with 35 cents per pound for steel.

Mahoning County’s new sheriff, Edward P. Nemeth, says a lack of funds means he cannot take over the Youngstown city jail or open a minimum security jail as planned.

1977: GF Business Equipment Inc. expects to begin initial production in a Gallatin, Tenn., plant by July, producing lateral and vertical files now made in Youngstown, shareholders are told.

Mahoning County commissioners vote to purchase the main Youngstown Post Office Building on Front Street for $1 should it be made available after the new post office goes into operation.

With virtually a full load of passengers booked, United Airlines launches its new one-stop Youngstown-Akron-Florida service. The plane will make stops in Tampa and Miami.

1967: Warren P. Williamson Jr., a 27-year member of the Youngstown Board of Education, is re-elected president for the 18th year. Dr. Earl Young, who has served on the board for 25 years, is vice president.

A $1 million federal grant is approved toward a $3.5 million health and physical education building for Youngstown University.

The Rev. Colbert S. Cartwright, pastor of Central Christian Church and chairman of the Youngstown Human Relations Commission, says there is “a pattern of racial discrimination in housing in the Youngstown area.”

1942: Youngstown district civilian airplane pilots are organized into a Civil Air Patrol to guard the Meander Reservoir and natural gas lines to the Ravenna Arsenal.

Harry Middleton, the man who controlled Mahoning County’s biggest “faucet” for 25 years, regulating the flow of the Mahoning River, has retired to a little home near the scene of his life’s work.

“Arsenic and Old Lace,” a current Broadway success, is the play Mrs. Robert Coffey will review for the Book Lovers’ Club at the YWCA.