Today is Saturday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2017

Today is Saturday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2017. There are 351 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1784: The United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War.

1927: The Paramount silent romantic comedy “It,” starring Clara Bow (who became known as “The ‘It’ Girl”), has its world premiere in Los Angeles.

1952: NBC’s “Today” show premieres with Dave Garroway as the host or “communicator.”

1963: George C. Wallace is sworn in as governor of Alabama with the pledge, “Segregation forever!”

1967: The Sixties’ Summer of Love unofficially begins with a Human Be-In, a gathering of tens of thousands of young people for a counterculture event at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

2007: President George W. Bush, facing opposition from both parties over his plan to send more troops to Iraq, says on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that he has the authority to act no matter what Congress wanted.

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1992: About 150 people pack the Elkrun Township Hall with 100 more standing outside, many expressing opposition to the proposed construction of a federal penitentiary.

Lordstown officials are inviting other communities, including Austintown, to join a discussion on forming a new water district.

Dr. William Lippy of Warren launches his own buy-American plan, offering the 23 employees of Warren Otologic Group Inc. an incentive of $200 toward buying a used American car, $400 toward a new one and $600 toward a Lords-town-built vehicle.

1977: The Howland Board of Education approves a new contract with its 270 teachers, ending a two-week strike and allowing the return of 5,600 students to class.

Irene Ward, personnel director for Youngstown public schools, testifies during the district’s segregation trial that it is difficult to attract black teachers to the city school district because its salaries are not competitive.

The United Steelworkers Union says it will sue to recover $1.5 million in back wages it says employees of GF Business Equipment Inc. gave up in exchange for a promise of expansion of the company’s Youngstown plants that never happened.

1967: The Youngstown Board of Control leases the 13th floor of the Realty Building on Central Square to house urban-renewal relocation offices that will buy up downtown real estate.

The federal government approves a $407,000 grant to pay half the cost of an estimated $852,000 project to improve Boardman Township’s low-water problems.

Raymond H. Dehnbostel, 65, of 771 Willard NE, Warren, a psychology professor at Youngstown University, dies in Trumbull Memorial Hospital after suffering a heart attack. He had also been a member of the Dana School of Music faculty, the first director of the VFW Boys Band and a director of the Packard Band.

1942: Spot checking of motorists proves productive when police arrest two men whose car was loaded to capacity with scrap rails.

Kenneth C. Ray, state education director, instructs Ohio’s 2,200 school superintendents and principals to relate each class to the war emergency, including the geography of Asia and the Pacific, home-economics classes aimed at proper nutrition for defense workers and conservation of important materials, and forums on civilian defense.

Services for Judge George Gessner, 63, a member of the Mahoning County Common Pleas bench since 1923 and dean of the Youngstown College Law School, will be held in First Christian Church. He died in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after surgery for a brain tumor.