Today is Saturday, Jan. 7, the seventh day of 2017. There are 358 days left in the year.

January 7, 2017 at 12:00a.m.

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On this date in:

1927: Commercial transatlantic telephone service is inaugurated between New York and London.

1942: Japanese forces begin besieging American and Filipino troops in Bataan during World War II. (The fall of Bataan three months later was followed by the notorious Death March.)

1959: The United States recognizes the new government of Cuba, six days after Fidel Castro led the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.

1999: For the second time in history, an impeached American president goes on trial before the Senate. President Bill Clinton faces charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. (He later was acquitted.)

2015: Masked gunmen storm the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French newspaper that had caricatured the Prophet Mohammad, methodically killing 12 people before escaping. (Two suspects were killed two days later.)

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1992: Emmanuel Catsoules, superintendent of Youngstown public schools, says metal detectors will be installed in high schools and middle schools as a guard against weapons being brought to school.

Liberty Local School District teachers end a six-day strike, but settlement details are not being released.

Mahoning Valley school district officials say that Gov. George Voinovich’s budget will mean cuts for every district. The two biggest losers are Youngstown City Schools at $627,671 and Warren City Schools at $317,466.

1977: The Rev. Lonnie Simon, a former member of the Youngstown Board of Education, testifies during a federal trial in Akron that he tried without success to get the board to adopt a resolution supporting desegregation of city schools.

A Mahoning County grand jury issues a report lamenting the fact that crime has increased beyond the capacity of the court system to handle it. James C. Miller, vice president of Strouss-Hirshberg department stores, was the grand jury’s foreman.

The Red Barn restaurant at 1900 Market St. in Youngstown is robbed by a man and woman who entered the store just before its 11 p.m. closing, forced the employees into a cooler and escaped with an undetermined amount of money.

1967: Eastern Ohio political subdivisions are passing local cooperation resolutions toward clearing the way for building a 120-mile canal linking Lake Erie and the Ohio River.

Mill Creek Park will be explored in a series of 12 public nature walks led by William A. Whitehouse, assistant park naturalist. Lindley Vickers, park naturalist, will show color slides.

A 29-year-old Campbell man is arrested on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon, and five men and three women face other charges after police raid a house of prostitution at 754 Shehy St.

1942: Temperatures from 10 to 15 below zero are expected, giving Youngstown its coldest weather recorded in many years.

Youngstown College will eliminate the spring vacation and offer a full 12-week summer course so that students will be able to earn a four-year degree in three years, gearing college work to the national emergency.

Congressman Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown characterizes President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s address to the nation as “a promise that America is sincere and that from now on it will be blood, sweat and tears, with our boys fighting in every land.” The president called for $9 billion in new taxes and dramatic increases in the production of war materiel.