YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2017. There are 345 days left in the year.

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On t his date in:

1887: The U.S. Senate approves an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.

1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first chief executive to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 instead of March 4.

1942: Nazi officials hold the notorious Wannsee conference during which they arrive at their “final solution” that calls for exterminating Europe’s Jews.

1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn into office for an unprecedented fourth term.

1981: Iran releases 52 Americans it had held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

2012: Singer Etta James, 73, dies in Riverside, Calif.

2016: President Barack Obama hails the revival of the nation’s auto industry during a visit to Detroit while acknowledging the water crisis in nearby Flint, Mich.

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1992: The Rev. Warren G. Booker preaches a message of love and justice at his Indianola United Methodist Church to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Also speaking is Elsie Dursi, executive director of the Mahoning Valley Association of Churches.

Mayor Patrick Ungaro and Police Chief Randall Wellington ask the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority to more closely scrutinize residents of Amedia Plaza, a once quiet high-rise for the elderly and disabled in the old Hotel Ohio downtown.

As the number of women police officers increases, many Ohio departments adopt policies to reassign pregnant officers to desk duty until they give birth.

1977: The Ohio Hotel Management Co., owners of Hotel Ohio in downtown Youngstown, files a lawsuit for $455,919 it claims the United States Fire Insurance Co. owes for losses in a hotel fire on Jan. 20, 1976.

Gov. James A. Rhodes prepares a $14.5 billion biennial state budget, a record for Ohio.

Citing a loss of 9,000 white students from the Youngstown school district since 1964, Superintendent Robert Pegues says “white flight” has contributed to racial imbalance among city schools.

1967: The Snyder-Bentley Co. takes out a building permit for a $62,000 warehouse, the first building project in the Youngstown River Bend Urban Renewal area.

Struthers safety workers return to work following an offer by Mayor Stanley Davis of an additional $6 in the city’s offer of $5 per month pay raises.

Youngstown detectives arrest two women and recover most of the $2,000 taken from a visiting Louisiana soldier who just returned from Vietnam and lost the money after being invited to a North Side “cheat joint” for a drink.

Valley Mould and Iron Corp. is weighing construction of a new $10 million plant for production of king-sized moulds for the steel industry.

1942: C.B. Rayburn, superintendent of Mahoning County schools, will head a committee leading a vigorous “scrap for cash” campaign at all schools in the county.

Youngstown City Council’s utility committee will meet with William Muldoon, Youngstown Municipal Railway manager, to discuss staggering working hours in downtown offices and industrial plants to relieve rush- hour congestion.

Strouss-Hirshberg’s January sale downtown has a three-piece fur ensemble including coat, muff and hat made of seal-died, beaver-died or mink-dyed coney for $59. Max Factor’s new pancake makeup is $1.50, and reconditioned typewriters are $42.50.