YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 3

Today is Thursday, Jan. 3, the third day of 2019. There are 362 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1521: Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X.

1777: Gen. George Washington’s army routs the British in the Battle of Princeton, N.J.

1938: The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1959: Alaska becomes the 49th state as President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a proclamation.

1967: Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, dies in a Dallas hospital.

1977: Apple Computer is incorporated in Cupertino, Calif., by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Makkula Jr.

2008: Illinois Sen. Barack Obama wins Democratic caucuses in Iowa, while Mike Huckabee wins the Republican caucuses.

2018: President Donald Trump signs an executive order disbanding the controversial voter fraud commission he set up to investigate the 2016 presidential election.

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1994: Youngstown State University’s Center for Urban Studies surveyed 526 Mahoning Valley homeowners who left the area in 1989 and 1990. Among their reasons: declining housing values, school quality and the safety of streets and neighborhoods, garbage collection and fire protection.

Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, broke with President Bill Clinton on the trade treaty with Mexico, but was one of the president’s biggest supporters, voting with him 97 percent of the time. Ohio’s other Sen., Howard Metzenbaum, voted with Clinton 92 percent.

Robert Froom of Boardman donates to the Mahoning Valley Historical Society a Whiffle pinball machine that was invented by his father, Earl, and produced in a plant at 51 S. Forest Ave., Youngstown.

1979: The 44-member commission studying segregation in Warren city schools presents three desegregation proposals to the board of education.

Wayne L. Hays, a powerful congressman who resigned after a sex scandal two years ago, is sworn in as a member of Ohio’s 113th General Assembly, representing the 99th district in southeast Ohio.

A gunman hijacks a Dollar Savings & Trust Co. shuttle van after ramming the truck from behind on McGuffey Road at Route 616, but abandons the vehicle about a mile away after finding that it contained no cash, only canceled checks and computer printouts.

1969: Youngstown City Council adopts a new zoning ordinance under which anything in a zoning district that is not explicitly allowed is prohibited unless there is a zone change. The law replaces one in effect since 1929.

Signal Companies Inc. announces at its Los Angeles headquarters that it has sold 1 million shares of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. stock to Lykes Corp. of New Orleans.

Private contracting of garbage and rubbish collection in Youngstown has been proposed again by the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce to reduce city expenditures and improve efficiency.

1944: Five Youngstown district WACs are stationed at Daytona Beach: Pvt. Mary L. Scanlon, Pvt. Rosalie Ellis, Pvt. Victoria Spatts, Pvt. Virginia Sutton and Pvt. Katherine Rigelsky.

Negotiations for a new contract covering about 20,000 employees of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. are resumed by a committee of the United Steelworkers of America and company executives. J.C. Argetsinger heads company negotiators.

Lt. Gen William Knudsen arrives in Youngs-town to present the Army-Navy “E” production pennant to General Fireproofing Co.