Today is Saturday, Jan. 28, the 28th day of 2017. There are 337 days left in the year. This is the
Today is Saturday, Jan. 28, the 28th day of 2017. There are 337 days left in the year. This is the Chinese New Year of the Rooster.
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1547: England’s King Henry VIII dies; he is succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Edward VI.
1813: The novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen is first published anonymously in London.
1956: Elvis Presley makes his first national TV appearance on “Stage Show,” a CBS program hosted by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey.
1973: A cease-fire officially takes effect in the Vietnam War.
1977: Actor-comedian Freddie Prinze, 22, co-star of the NBC-TV show “Chico and the Man,” shoots and mortally wounds himself at the Beverly Comstock Hotel (he died the next day).
1986: The space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.
2016: Absent Donald Trump, the other Republican presidential candidates strain to take advantage of a rare opportunity to step out of the front-runner’s shadow during a debate in Des Moines, Iowa.
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1992: The Poland Board of Education approves a new contract that will give teachers 3 percent increases in each of the next three years. The base salary for teachers will increase from $19,900 to $21,745.
U.S. Rep. Thomas J. Ridge, an Erie Republican, says he will seek a sixth term representing Pennsylvania’s 21st District.
James W. Cossler, president of the Youngstown Better Business Bureau, says the BBB is receiving a rising number of complaints about for-profit trade schools and says students should be wary of unrealistic promises of job placement.
1977: Harold C. Henderson, 43, is appointed East Palestine postmaster, succeeding Joseph Bunn.
Municipal Judge Lloyd R. Haynes sentences a Sebring man to six months in jail and two women to 30 days in jail each on charges they assaulted deputies at the Mahoning County Jail.
Gov. James A. Rhodes orders state workers home early as a blizzard sweeps through Ohio and a day after declaring an “energy crisis” in the state.
1967: Thomas J. O’Hara, 77-year-old retired Youngstown patrolman, is wounded in the neck by a burglar who walked in on the night watchman as he sat in the office of Youngstown Buick at 1021 Wick Ave. He is reportedly holding his own at St. Elizabeth Hospital.
Questions are posed by the 125 people facing relocation for the proposed comprehensive mental-health center on the North Side during a meeting of the North Side Neighborhood Council at St. Augustine Episcopal Church.
Westley A. Blanton, 36, dies in his car, which caught fire while idling in the parking lot of the Wedgewood Apartments in Austintown.
1942: John L. Mayo, district SWOC director and leader of 80,000 steelworkers, is discharged as part of the battle for control of the CIO between Phillip Murray and John L. Lewis.
Youngstown council’s plan to prevent the Spagnola administration from buying heavy-type cars for police cruisers fails when the board of control awards contracts for 19 of 26 cruisers to Manning-Marino for Hudsons at $995 each.
Frank Sinkwich and Bob Dove, Youngstown All-American football stars, will be in the city to aid in the President’s Birthday Ball. John Cantwell, county chairman of infantile paralysis chapter, announces.