YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2017. There are 355 days left in the year.

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1776: Thomas Paine anonymously publishes his influential pamphlet, “Common Sense,” which argues for American independence from British rule.

1861: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.

1917: Legendary Western frontiersman and showman William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody dies at his sister’s home in Denver at age 70.

1920: The League of Nations is established as the Treaty of Versailles goes into effect.

1946: The first General Assembly of the United Nations convenes in London.

1971: “Masterpiece Theatre” premieres on PBS with host Alistair Cooke introducing the drama series “The First Churchills.”

1984: The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a century.

2000: America Online announces it is buying Time Warner for $162 billion (the merger, which proved disastrous, ended in Dec. 2009).

2012: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney wins the New Hampshire Republican primary.

2016: David Bowie, the chameleon-like star who transformed the sound and the look of rock with his audacious creativity and his sexually ambiguous makeup and costumes, dies in New York.

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1992: An appeals court in Columbus orders the reinstatement of the medical license of Youngstown plastic surgeon Dr. Richard Murray, who had his license suspended by the Ohio Medical Board after he admitted prescribing steroids for athletic enhancement.

Mark Munroe squeezes out a 28-24 victory over Mary Sharpe, chairwoman of the Mahoning County Republican Party in a vote by the GOP executive committee to determine who should represent the party on the Mahoning County Board of Elections.

The Automotive Dealers Association of Northeastern Ohio says auto sales in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana County were off in 1991, dropping to 19,168 units, the first time the number fell below 20,000 since 1983.

1977: Jennings R. Lambeth, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., announces that Thomas W. Hunter has been elected to the newly created position of executive vice president-production.

An overnight snowfall of 2 to 3 inches covers any possible footprints, complicating the search for Stephanie Ann Boller, a 5-year-old girl who disappeared while walking from a friend’s house to her nearby Beaver Falls, Pa., home. (Her body was found in November 1977 in Brady’s Run Park.)

1967: A bill to enable police to make random inspections of motor vehicles and make arrests in cases of defective equipment is introduced in the Ohio Senate by Sen. Charles Carney of Youngstown.

Heritage Manor, the Jewish Home for the Aged operated by the Jewish Federation of Youngstown, is certified as an extended-care facility under Medicare by the Ohio Department of Health.

Western Union Telegraph Co. moves from its offices at 42 Central Square to new quarters at 211 W. Boardman St. The move costs $250,000.

1942: Albert Redmen, weather observer for the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., predicts temperatures may tumble to 15 degrees below zero.

Lt. Col. Donald Lynn, executive director of the Mahoning County Office of Civilian Defense, issues an appeal for enrollees in the Ohio Institute of Civilian and Industrial protection, as the area has fallen far short of its quota.

The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce announces it will not support any proposed increases in operating levies for Mahoning County subdivisions until something is done toward collecting delinquent taxes.