YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2017. There are 359 days left in the year.

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1759: George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis are married in New Kent County, Va.

1838: Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail give the first successful public demonstration of their telegraph in Morristown, N.J.

1912: New Mexico becomes the 47th state.

1967: U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Deckhouse Five, an offensive in the Mekong River delta.

1994: Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the leg by an assailant at Detroit’s Cobo Arena; four men, including the ex-husband of Kerrigan’s rival, Tonya Harding, go to prison for their roles in the attack.

2001: With Vice President Al Gore presiding in his capacity as president of the Senate, Congress formally certifies George W. Bush the winner of the bitterly contested 2000 presidential election.

2012: The Obama administration expands the FBI’s more than eight-decades-old definition of rape to count men as victims for the first time and to drop the requirement that victims physically resisted their attackers.

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1992: Replacement workers are driven in vans across picket lines set up by Liberty Local School District teachers after a 13-hour negotiation session fails to bring an agreement.

Youngstown marks its first homicide of the new year, when Shawn Ward, 21, is shot outside Jitso’s Place on the East Side. The first homicide came eight days earlier than in 1991.

The new year brings increases in Youngstown hospital rates. A private room in a Western Reserve Care System hospital goes from $303 to $334 and at St. Elizabeth from $298 to $318.

1977: A group of physicians, incorporated as Austintown Ambulatory/Surgical Center Inc., plans to open a center for ambulatory and surgical care in Austintown that a spokesman says would offer services at lower cost than at hospitals.

Nearly 56 of every 100 new U.S.-built cars sold carried the name of a General Motors Division in 1976, making it the No. 1 automaker in the nation.

H. James English, manager of East Ohio Gas. Co.’s Youngstown division, says 19 employees will be transferred to Akron, despite an objection from Youngstown City Council.

1967: A story in Sports Illustrated on illegal sports gambling, a $7 billion enterprise, lists a Struthers telephone number as a contact for obtaining point spreads on football games.

William P. Nelson, a 17-year-old senior at Ursuline High School, is one of 10 students invited to the White House to receive a Lyndon B. Johnson Science Scholars award, which was personally presented by the president.

A two-year associate-degree program for nurses will open at Youngstown University in cooperation with the Youngstown Hospital Association as an answer to the area’s shortage of nurses.

1942: Leading all Vindicator carriers in the sale of defense stamps, Roy Lathrop, Raccoon Road, a Fitch High School student, sold 5,240 stamps worth $524 to the 84 customers on his Wickliffe route in Austintown.

Without a dissenting vote, the Youngstown council approved an emergency ordinance authorizing the board of control to take bids and award a contract for 28 new police cruisers, a master cruiser and a traffic truck to cost not more than $35,700.

The Senate Judiciary committee approves President Roosevelt’s nomination of Donald C. Miller of Cleveland, one of the “four horsemen” of Notre Dame grid fame, as U.S. attorney for the Northern Ohio District.