YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Jan. 9, the ninth day of 2017. There are 356 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1793: Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flies between Philadelphia and Woodbury, N.J.

1931: Bobbi Trout and Edna May Cooper break an endurance record for female aviators as they return to Mines Field in Los Angeles after flying a Curtiss Robin monoplane continuously for 122 hours and 50 minutes.

1968: The Surveyor 7 space probe makes a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.

2007: Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone, which went on sale the following June.

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1992: Columbiana County Commissioner John Wargo says a site in Elkton has been chosen for a 3,000-bed federal prison.

Residents of Jackson Township in Mercer County vote 138-99 in a straw poll to oppose a planned industrial park-recycling center along state Route 965.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association names Youngstown State University Head Coach Jim Tressel its Division 1-AA Coach of the year. He led the Penguins to their first national championship. He and his father, the late Lee Tressel, are the only father-son duo to win the honor.

1977: Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. announces plans for a multi-million dollar home and apartment complex on 260 acres at McKay Corners in Boardman.

Some citizens and township trustees in northern Trumbull County are expressing opposition to the construction of overpasses on state Route 11 at Wakefield Creek Road, Gardner Barclay Road and Davis Peck roads. Gov. James A. Rhodes says overpasses in Trumbull and Ashtabula counties will convert Route 11 into a “land canal” connecting Lake Erie to the Ohio River.

A 10-week strike by USW Local 2879 against Metal Carbides Corp. on Southern Boulevard comes to an end with an agreement that provides 30-cent-per-hour raises and pension increases.

1967: Someone steals the statue of infant Jesus from the city’s Nativity scene in Central Square.

Forty Campbell police, fire and sewage workers who had been involved in a nine-day sick-out return to work after city council agrees to consider their demand for $50-per-month pay increases.

Firefighters from two departments pump hundreds of gallons of water into the blazing Desert Inn, but fail to save the small nightclub on Route 289 near Lowellville.

Remedial reading classes begin at five Youngstown public and parochial schools for 250 third- and fourth-graders in low- income classes. Ursuline Sister M. Jerome is program director.

1942: A contract for the construction of a 75-oven coke plant at Republic Steel Corp.’s Warren plant to supply a new blast furnace at Youngstown is awarded to Semet-Solvay Co., New York.

E. J. Albrecht Co. of Chicago begins moving equipment to the site of the Berlin Dam after winning a $1,077,000 construction contract from the Army Corps of Engineers.

Federal Price Administrator Leon Henderson issues a formal statement assuring the nation that the government has no plans to commandeer private automobiles, correcting what he said was a misunderstanding from an earlier press conference.