YEARS AGO
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 31, the 31st day of 2017. There are 334 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1606: Guy Fawkes, convicted of treason for his part in the “Gunpowder Plot” against the English Parliament and King James I, is executed.
1865: The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in passing the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery, sending it to states for ratification. (The amendment was adopted in December 1865.)
1917: During World War I, Germany serves notice that it is beginning a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1929: Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his family are expelled from the Soviet Union.
1958: The United States enters the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satellite into orbit, Explorer I.
1961: NASA launches Ham the Chimp aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral.
1971: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa blast off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon.
1990: McDonald’s Corp. opens its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow.
2007: Delaware Sen. Joe Biden formally launches his second bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
2012: Republican Mitt Romney routs Newt Gingrich in the Florida primary, rebounding from an earlier defeat.
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1992: Federal and local authorities storm three Youngstown locations to plug what they believe is a major pipeline for cocaine. A pound of suspected cocaine, 15 firearms and four bombs are confiscated.
Dr. Anthony Stocks, YSU economics professor, and Dr. Kenneth Mayland, chief economist for Society Bank, predict local economic growth and the addition of 2,000 jobs in 1992.
1977: National Guard helicopters are in the air in the Salem area to help stranded motorists and homeowners as snow and bitterly cold conditions continue.
Jeff Covington’s pair of free throws with 31 seconds on the clock clinches a 73-71 victory for Dom Rosselli’s Penguins over Wright State, giving Youngstown State University its 13th victory.
Youngstown Patrolmen Franklin Palmer and Patrick Gallagher are injured after their cruiser collides with a car they were chasing from the scene of a burglary at Sturgeon’s Market, 1451 Elm St.
1967: A general downward trend in interest rates charged by Youngstown banks is expected after Mahoning National Bank drops its prime rate from 6 percent to 53/4 percent.
North Side Hospital is recruiting nurses and will reopen its 1-East nursing unit with 32 beds.
William Nelson, Youngstown’s Lyndon B. Johnson Science Scholar, is full of enthusiasm about his two-week seminar on space technology in Australia.
1942: Mahoning County commissioners allot $315,000 worth of fire insurance on all county buildings to 21 different insurance agencies.
The fifth annual campaign to raise $5,000 for the Youngstown College Library fund begins in February. The four previous drives reached their goals.
Relocation of 12.9 miles of state Route 5 in the vicinity of Ravenna Arsenal is included in a $3 million road construction program undertaken by the state highway department near military ordnance plants and airfields.