YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 4

Today is Friday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2019. There are 361 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers his State of the Union address in which he outlines the goals of his “Great Society.”

1896: Utah is admitted as the 45th state.

1904: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Gonzalez v. Williams, rules that Puerto Ricans are not aliens and could enter the United States freely.

1935: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, calls for legislation to provide assistance for the jobless, elderly, impoverished children and the handicapped.

1960: Author and philosopher Albert Camus dies in an automobile accident in France at 46.

1974: President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

2002: Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Ross Chapman, a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier, is killed by small-arms fire during an ambush in eastern Afghanistan; he is the first American military death from enemy fire in the war against terrorism.

2014: The city center of Iraq’s Fallujah falls completely into the hands of fighters from the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State in Iraq.

2018: The Trump administration moves to vastly expand offshore drilling .

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: The 35-foot Chief Wahoo is removed from the roof of Cleveland Stadium as the Indians prepare to move to Gateway Stadium. The rendering, which has become more controversial since its installation in 1962, will be put into storage.

Warren Patrolman Morris Hill returns from sick leave to find himself in a new position riding a desk next to the elevator in the municipal building. He says he’s being punished for speaking out against racial discrimination in the department.

Pollster Gordon Black says that after 15 years of doing business in New York state, he is opening an office on Windham Court in Boardman that will employ 50 people conducting consumer-satisfaction research, product evaluations and public-opinion polls.

1979: A federal grand jury indicts four Youngstown men accused of accepting $7,000 in exchange for their promise to fix criminal cases in Mahoning and Trumbull courts.

Mercer County, Pa., Common Pleas Judge John Q. Stranahan asks Sheriff Paul Ague to review all valid pistol permit holders, noting that there are 3,827 permits in the county, and many were issued on vague reasons for the need to carry a firearm.

Goodwill Industries Inc. unveils plans for a $1.5 million renovation and expansion program at the Goodwill Center on Belmont Avenue.

1969: Faculty and students at Volney Rogers Junior High pay tribute to Frank E. Platenak, a teacher who was killed in the crash of an Air Force Reserve C-119 plane in Puerto Rico on Dec. 14, with a memorial service and establishment of a scholarship.

The Liberty Township Volunteer Fire Department buys its first ambulance, a 1969 Oldsmobile, for $11, 390.

Youngstown records its first traffic fatality of the new year. Robert Summers, 21, is a passenger in a high-performance car that went out of control on West Rayen Avenue and was wrapped around a utility pole.

St. Elizabeth Hospital announces it has raised the charge on all rooms by $5 a day to cover increases in wages. Private rooms will be $51 a day; semi-private, $45, and wards, $41.

1944: Friends of Youngstown’s new mayor, Ralph O’Neill, convince him to take off his hat while at his desk. O’Neill was known for wearing his hat all day long.

The Board of Education authorizes a survey of Youngstown public schools to develop a post-war strategy.