Today is Sunday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2017

Today is Sunday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2017. There are 357 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1642: Astronomer Galileo Galilei dies in Arcetri, Italy.

1790: President George Washington delivers his first State of the Union address to Congress in New York.

1815: The last major engagement of the War of 1812 ends as U.S. forces defeat the British in the Battle of New Orleans, not having gotten word of the signing of a peace treaty.

1867: The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in overriding President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill, giving black men who live there the right to vote.

1918: President Woodrow Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points for lasting peace after World War I.

Mississippi becomes the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which establishes Prohibition.

1935: Rock ‘n’ roll legend Elvis Presley is born in Tupelo, Miss.

1959: Charles de Gaulle is inaugurated as president of France’s Fifth Republic.

1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declares an “unconditional war on poverty in America.”

1976: Chinese premier Zhou Enlai, 77, dies in Beijing.

1982: American Telephone and Telegraph settles the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.

1987: For the first time, the Dow Jones industrial average closes above 2,000, ending the day at 2,002.25.

1997: The state of Arkansas puts three men to death in the second triple execution since capital punishment was rein- stated in 1976. (The first also occurred in Arkansas, in 1994.)

2011: U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., is shot and critically wounded when a gunman opens fire as the congresswoman met with constituents in Tucson; six people are killed, 12 others also are wounded. (Gunman Jared Lee Loughner was sentenced in November 2012 to seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years.)

2007: A Moroccan (Mounir el-Motassadeq) convicted of aiding three of the four suicide pilots who had committed the Sept. 11 attacks is sentenced by a German court to the maximum of 15 years in prison for his role in the terror plot.

The Florida Gators win college football’s national championship by defeating the Ohio State Buckeyes 41-14.

Actress Yvonne De Carlo dies in Woodland Hills, Calif., at age 84.

2012: Bells ring in Tucson, Ariz., as residents pause to remember the six people killed in the shooting rampage a year earlier that left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords severely wounded; Giffords led a crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance during an evening vigil.

Mitt Romney’s Republican presidential rivals pile on the criticism during a morning debate, two days before the New Hampshire primary.

2016: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the world’s most-wanted drug lord, is captured for a third time in a daring raid by Mexican marines, six months after walking through a tunnel to freedom from a maximum security prison in a made-for-Hollywood escape that deeply embarrassed the government and strained ties with the United States.

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1992: In agreeing to end a six-day strike, Liberty teachers win pay raises of about 4 percent over three years and agree that any future contract dispute will be submitted to binding arbitration.

William Collins, 75, is found dead in his home at 2973 Heatherbrae Drive, the first homicide in Poland Township in a decade. His 45-year-old son has been arrested.

United Way suspends its funding of the Youngs-town Society for the Blind and says it is looking for a new agency to provide services to the area’s visually impaired.

1977: Dr. Richard Murray, Youngstown plastic surgeon and longtime patron of the arts, is invested into the ancient Knights of Malta during an impressive ceremony at St. Columba Cathedral.

Gov. James A. Rhodes announces appointment of Sherman P. McCoy, 31, former deputy director of Willowbrook Development on Staten Island, as the new superintendent of Woodside Receiving Hospital.

Robert L. Pegues Jr., superintendent of Youngstown public schools since 1972, is being mentioned as a possible replacement for retiring state Superintendent of Public Instruction Martin Essex, but Pegues says he isn’t interested.

1967: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan’s Washington office, which has many mementos of the congressman’s 30 years of service has two new recognition plaques – one from the Lower Mississippi Flood Control Association and the other from the Arkansas Basin Development Association.

Janet Fratino, senior at Cardinal Mooney High School, helps snap the unbeaten Boardman speech team’s winning streak at the Individual Events Tournament at Cleveland Magnificat High School.

A car is pulled from Hoover Reservoir near Columbus, solving the disappearance of Mary H. Rutherford, 41, of Delaware and her four children and four nieces and nephews. The bodies of three of the children were not in the car. They had been en route to Columbus to buy shoes for the children.

1942: Two Campbell boys, Sam Cua and Joe Lofaro, take the lead over all Vindicator carriers in sales of defense stamps by teaming up to sell 42,000 stamps valued at $4,200.

Thirty-one casualty districts are organized to meet any emergency should enemy planes strike at the industrial Mahoning County or should a war-bred epidemic break out.

Nearly 80 nuns at the Ursuline Convent on Rayen Avenue will take first- aid courses from Dr. Alice W. Elliott to be ready for a possible emergency.

High scores are featured in Industrial Basketball League games at the YMCA as General Fireproofing tops Falcon Bronze, 62-32; Untied Engineering defeats Truscon Office, 57-38, and Campbell bests Brier Hill, 62-46.