Today is Sunday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2017. There are 343 days left in the year.

January 22, 2017 at 12:00a.m.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1498: During his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus arrives at the present-day Caribbean island of St. Vincent.

1901: Britain’s Queen Victoria dies at age 81 after a reign of 63 years; she is succeeded by her eldest son, Edward VII.

1917: President Woodrow Wilson, in an address to Congress, pleads for an end to the war in Europe, calling for “peace without victory.” (By April, however, America also was at war.)

1922: Pope Benedict XV dies; he is succeeded by Pius XI.

1938: Thornton Wilder’s play “Our Town” is performed publicly for the first time in Princeton, N.J.

1947: America’s first commercially licensed television station west of the Mississippi, KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, makes its official debut.

1957: George P. Metesky, suspected of being the “Mad Bomber” who injured 15 people over a 16-year period, is arrested in Waterbury, Conn. (Metesky was later found mentally ill and committed until 1973; he died in 1994.)

1968: “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” premieres on NBC-TV.

1970: The first regularly scheduled commercial flight of the Boeing 747 begins in New York and ends in London some 61/2 hours later.

1973: The U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, legalizes abortions using a trimester approach.

Former President Lyndon B. Johnson dies at his Texas ranch at age 64.

1987: Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, convicted of defrauding the state, proclaims his innocence at a news conference before pulling out a gun and shooting himself to death in front of horrified onlookers.

1997: The Senate unanimously confirms Madeleine Albright as the nation’s first female secretary of state.

2007: A double car bombing of a predominantly Shiite commercial area in Baghdad kills 88 people.

Iran announces it has barred 38 nuclear inspectors on a United Nations list from entering the country in apparent retaliation for U.N. sanctions imposed the previous month.

2008: Actor Heath Ledger is found dead of an accidental prescription overdose in New York City; he was 28.

2012: Longtime Penn State coach Joe Paterno, who’d won more games than anyone in major college football but was fired amid a child sex abuse scandal that scarred his reputation, dies at age 85.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Terrence Shidel is back as police chief in Canfield, five days after being fired by City Manager Charles Tieche for refusing to wear a uniform. He will wear a badge on the lapel of his suit.

Mahoning Valley workers take issue with a statement by a Japanese politician, Yoshio Sakurauchi, that Japan is winning the trade war because American workers are lazy and undereducated.

Linda Gentile, the new president of Society National Bank’s Mahoning Valley District, says the Cleveland-based bank is here to stay and will be looking to buy a local bank or branches.

1977: The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. will go to a four-day workweek because the severe cold has not only constricted its supply of natural gas but also put alternative fuels out of reach.

N. Laird Eckman, director of the Regional Growth Division of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce, says his team has called on 205 companies during a trip into Pennsylvania, and 14 are considering moving to or expanding in Ohio.

Youngstown police believe a pickax was used to kill Frank Williams, 83, whose body was found behind the furnace in the basement of his home at 503 W. Myrtle Ave. Police are holding a 32-year-old relative for questioning.

1967: The value of building construction in Mahoning County’s unincorporated areas in 1966 totaled $23.3 million, an increase of $2 million over 1965, despite a national slowdown in building.

Donald Ray Witt, former Youngstowner, receives a Ph.D degree in physics from Texas A & M University. He accepts a position as associate professor of research at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base.

Thomas O’Malia, 2117 Elm St., is elected a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, national professional business fraternity, at John Carroll University.

1942: U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan, D-Youngstown, tells a special House committee investigating reports of scrap hoarding and profiteering, that there are 25 million to 28 million tons of scrap lying untapped throughout the country.

With reports still incomplete, Red Cross funds have reached $191,260, far ahead of Mahoning County’s $170,000 goal. Chairman Harry Rownd believes the final totals will reach $225,000.

The Mahoning County Tire Rationing Board no longer serves just to ration tires. Its powers and duties are widened to include all things the federal government may ration.