YEARS AGO
Today is Monday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2017. There are 335 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1649: England’s King Charles I is executed for treason.
1882: The 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is born in Hyde Park, N.Y.
1911: James White, an intellectually disabled black man who’d been convicted of rape for having sex with a 14-year-old white girl when he was 16, is publicly hanged in Bell County, Ky.
1933: Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.
1948: Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, is shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed.)
1962: Two members of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act are killed when their seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance at the State Fair Coliseum in Detroit.
1968: The Tet Offensive begins during the Vietnam War.
1972: Thirteen Roman Catholic civil-rights marchers are shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what would become known as “Bloody Sunday.”
2016: Two biker clubs clash during a weekend motorcycle show in Denver, resulting in a brawl that leaves one person dead and seven others shot, stabbed or beaten.
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1992: The Ohio Department of Transportation announces plans to expand parts of Interstates 80 and 76 in Mahoning and Trumbull counties to three lanes in each direction.
About 10 taverns in western Pennsylvania are banning leather jackets on motorcyclists because of the rowdy image of such gear. Motorcycle riders say they aren’t Hell’s Angels, and the policy is discriminatory.
Nearly half of the more than 300 companies responding to a Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce survey expect to add staff in 1992 and nearly two-thirds plan to invest in new equipment.
1977: A study of profits made by 12 major employers in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys by the Industrial Information Institute shows that profits for 1976 averaged 3.8 percent, far below what most people think, and below what is needed to create new jobs.
A number of Youngstown-area gas stations close after a rush of motorists causes them to run out of gas.
1967: Bill Beinecke, a 6-foot tall, 230-pound Austintown Fitch star tackle, will enroll at the University of Pittsburgh.
Four Mercer County young men nominated for admission to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point are John Burns, Sharon; Joseph Chavera, Farrell; Charles Tomich, Hickory Township and Gerald Walton, Greenville.
The Around Town Dance Club celebrates its 21st birthday at the Fonderlac Country Club.
1942: David Gundry, a Vindicator carrier and son of the president of Youngstown City Council Arthur Gundry, is given the honor of delivering a $5,000 defense bond to representatives of Youngstown Fire Fighter Association, Local 312.
Two orchestras – those of Wick Mackey and Tee Ross – will play from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. for the President’s Birthday Ball at Stambaugh Auditorium.
Two knockouts highlight the amateur boxing show at the Pyatt Street Auditorium. Ozzie Pegues floors Herman Bell, Tony Janiro decisions George Gould, and Carl Rouse scores a TKO over Frank Bernard.