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January 17, 2017 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 17, the 17th day of 2017. There are 348 days left in the year.

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1893: The 19th president of the U.S., Rutherford B. Hayes, dies in Fremont, Ohio, at age 70.

1929: The cartoon character Popeye the Sailor makes his debut in the “Thimble Theatre” comic strip.

1945: Soviet and Polish forces liberate Warsaw during World War II.

1950: The Great Brink’s Robbery takes place as seven masked men hold up a Brink’s garage in Boston, stealing $1.2 million in cash and $1.5 million in checks and money orders.

1966: The Simon & Garfunkel album “Sounds of Silence” is released by Columbia Records.

1977: Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, 36, was shot by a firing squad at Utah State Prison in the first U.S. execution in a decade.

1987: Hundreds of Ku Klux Klan members and supporters disrupt a “brotherhood anti- intimidation march” through all-white Forsyth County, Ga.

2007: Pulitzer Prize-winning satirist Art Buchwald dies in Washington, D.C., at age 81.

2012: Johnny Otis, the “godfather of rhythm and blues” who wrote and recorded the R&B classic “Willie and the Hand Jive,” dies in Los Angeles at age 90.

2016: Ahead of the Iowa caucuses, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders engage in their most contentious debate to date, tangling repeatedly in Charleston, S.C.

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1992: A dream comes true for Bozena Chomczyk when her two sons, Darek, 14, and Sebastian, 12, arrive from Katowice, Poland, to live with her in Boardman.

Niles City Council President Fremont Camerino says Niles and Youngstown lawmakers should discuss Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro’s proposal to dismantle the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.

Republican leaders are applauding Lt Gov. Michael DeWine’s decision to run for the U.S. Senate, but concede it will be an uphill battle against incumbent Democrat John Glenn.

1977: Vandals strike Woodrow Wilson High School, breaking into cabinets in the athletic department and setting fire to the principal’s office. Damage is estimated at $2,000.

A 35-year-old Oak Hill Avenue woman dies of her injuries after jumping from the Lincoln Park Bridge.

Several thousand workers are idle in the Youngstown district as the mercury falls to 15 degrees below zero and East Ohio Gas Co. and Columbia Gas Co. curtail service to industrial sites.

1967: Dr. Albert Pugsley tells 200 people at First Presbyterian Church’s annual meeting that when Youngstown University becomes a state college, downtown churches will play an important role in encouraging proper religious principles in the students.

The Rev. Norman M. Parr, superintendent of 76 Methodist churches in the Youngstown district, is elected executive director of the Youngstown Council of Churches, succeeding the Rev. Paul R. Gauss, retired pastor of Westminster U.P. Church.

Campbell City Council approves a budget of $1.6 million, which includes an increase of $25 per month for each employee, which workers already have rejected as inadequate. They are demanding increases of $50 per month.

1942: Collection of old tin cans to bolster dwindling supplies of scrap comes to a quick end. Local scrap dealers and steel makers say tin and solder harden steel, making it almost impossible to control quality.

William Forsyth, a Rayen School senior, and William Caldwell, a Miami University freshman, are among alternates for one of three appointments to the U.S. Naval Academy.

Coming to the Park Theater in Youngstown, direct from New York and Chicago, Cornelia Otis Skinner in “Theatre!” a play by Guy Bolton and Somerset Maugham.