YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2017. There are 336 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1820: King George III, the British monarch whose 59-year reign included the loss of the American colonies, dies at Windsor Castle at age 81; he is succeeded by his son, King George IV.

1843: The 25th president of the United States, William McKinley, is born in Niles, Ohio.

1845: Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” is first published in the New York Evening Mirror.

1861: Kansas becomes the 34th state of the Union.

1919: The ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launches Prohibition, is certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk.

1936: The first inductees of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, are announced in Cooperstown, N.Y.

1956: Editor-essayist H.L. Mencken, the “Sage of Baltimore,” dies at age 75.

1958: Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward are married in Las Vegas.

1964: Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear war satire “Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” premieres in New York, Toronto and London.

The Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.

Actor Alan Ladd, 50, dies in Palm Springs, Calif.

1966: The musical comedy “Sweet Charity” starring Gwen Verdon opens on Broadway.

1975: A bomb explodes inside the U.S. State Department in Washington, causing considerable damage but injuring no one; the radical group Weather Underground claims responsibility.

1990: Former Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial in Alaska, on charges stemming from the 1989 oil spill. (Hazelwood was acquitted of the major charges, and convicted of a misdemeanor.)

1995: The San Francisco 49ers become the first team in NFL history to win five Super Bowl titles, beating the San Diego Chargers, 49-26, in Super Bowl XXIX.

1998:A bomb rocks an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing security guard Robert Sanderson and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)

2007: President George W. Bush, deeply distrustful of Iran, tells National Public Radio “we will respond firmly” if Tehran were to escalate its military actions in Iraq and threaten American forces or Iraqi citizens.

2012: Eleven people are killed when smoke and fog cause a series of fiery crashes on I-75 in Florida.

2016: The Obama administration confirms that Hillary Clinton’s home server contains closely guarded government secrets.

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1992: Engineering is underway for a multimillion-dollar causeway to replace the Interstate 80 bridges at Meander Reservoir at a cost of $11 million beginning in 1996. Truck accidents raised concerns about polluting the area’s drinking water.

The estate of Anthony A. Foster of Youngstown is suing General Motors Corp. over a stamping accident at the Lordstown plant in 1991 that caused his death.

Gov. George Voinovich says the state will put up $175,000 to study the development potential of land along the Mahoning River.

1977: Thirty Ohio National Guardsmen are called in to augment the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department in patrolling the roads for motorists stranded by a blizzard. Nine flights at the Youngstown Municipal Airport are canceled, schools remain canceled and industries and businesses are shut down.

The Ohio Legislature shortens the mandatory school year by 15 days.

The Rev. James Latham, pastor of Foster Memorial United Presbyterian Church, is the new president of the Mahoning Valley Association of Churches.

1967: Maryland Gov. Spiro T. Agnew will speak at the Mahoning County Republican Party’s Lincoln Dinner on March 4 at the North Jackson Holiday Inn.

Duncan Chisholm of Poland leaves for Bogota, Colombia, as an American Field Service exchange student.

Auto theft – a penitentiary offense – is Youngstown’s most prevalent crime against property and is growing faster locally and nationally than any other single offense.

1942: Four graduate nurses of the Youngstown Hospital School of Nursing are among 24 nurses who land in Ireland. They are Dorothy Dibble, Florence McBride, Agnes Keane and Freda Thiel.

Ohio’s U.S. Sen. Harold Burton, R-Cleveland, is in Youngstown to speak at the McKinley Republican Banquet about not allowing inflation to get out of control.

An open hearth furnace at Republic Steel Corp.’s plant near downtown Warren suspends operations because of a lack of scrap metal.