YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 5

Today is Saturday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2019. There are 360 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1066: Edward the Confessor, King of England, dies after a reign of nearly 24 years.

1781: A British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va.

1943: Educator and scientist George Washington Carver dies in Tuskegee, Ala., at age 80.

1983: President Ronald Reagan announces he is nominating Elizabeth Dole to succeed Drew Lewis as secretary of transportation; Dole became the first woman to head a Cabinet department in Reagan’s administration, and the first to head the DOT.

1994: Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, former speaker of the House of Representatives, dies in Boston at age 81.

1998: Sonny Bono, the 1960s pop star-turned-politician, is killed when he struck a tree while skiing at the Heavenly Ski Resort on the Nevada-California state line; he was 62.

2009: President-elect Barack Obama meets with congressional leaders, declaring the national economy was “bad and getting worse” and predicting lawmakers would approve a mammoth revitalization package within two weeks of his taking office.

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1994: Youngstown’s unemployment rate is 13.1 percent for November 1993, a 2 percent decrease from a year earlier, but still the highest for any Ohio city.

Youngstown’s first homicide of 1994 is Lester B. Lockhart, 27, whose body was found with three bullet wounds at 71 W. Delason Ave. The city had 48 homicides in 1993, the first on Jan. 2.

Speaking to the Curbstone Coaches at the Wick-Pollock Inn, New Castle’s Chuck Tanner talks about managing the Pittsburgh Pirates from a 3-1 deficit to win the 1979 World Series against the Baltimore Orioles.

1979: After eight years and over $1 million in legal costs, the battles over damage claims for those shot by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University end in a $675,000 settlement.

Members of the Brookfield Federation of Teachers have paid $15,410 in contempt fines levied by Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Donald Ford for a five days of striking in early 1978. A $4,000 payment is due in three months as the BFT and individual teachers pay off fines of about $35,000.

The body of Ronald Thomas Jr., 11, is recovered from beneath Lanterman Falls in Mill Creek Park four days after he fell from an inner tube that he and two other boys were riding in Mill Creek.

1969: The 600-foot transmission tower of WYTV (Channel 33) at 3800 Shady Run Road settles 15 inches on its concrete base when a porcelain insulator supporting the 20-ton structure shattered.

Cadet Patrolman Richard Dixon of Niles is one of the first area law-enforcement officers to complete instruction from the Ohio Peace Officer Training Council.

Workmen are clearing debris after three cars of an Erie Lackawanna Railway freight train tore through Taylor-Winfield Corp. causing some $500,000 in damage to the plant and its equipment.

Paul W. Brown, 53, former Youngstown attorney, is sworn in as Ohio’s attorney general. Brown was appointed by Gov. James Rhodes to replace William Saxbe.

1944: One Youngstowner is saved and two others apparently lost on Christmas Eve when the U.S.S. Leary, a destroyer, sinks after being torpedoed in the North Atlantic. The survivor is Maurice Morrison. Missing are Alonzo Jacque and Stanley Prokop.

The Mosquito Creek Dam and Reservoir will be formally dedicated Jan. 15, less than six months after construction began on the Mahoning Valley’s largest reservoir.

Atty. J.C. Argetsinger, vice president and general council of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., is reappointed a director of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce.