YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 6

Today is Sunday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2019. There are 359 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1759: George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis are married in New Kent County, Va.

1838: Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail give the first successful public demonstration of their telegraph in Morristown, N.J.

1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlines a goal of “Four Freedoms”: Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear.

1945: George Herbert Walker Bush marries Barbara Pierce at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, N.Y.

1974: Year-round daylight saving time begins in the United States on a trial basis as a fuel-saving measure in response to the OPEC oil embargo.

1994: Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the leg by an assailant at Detroit’s Cobo Arena; four men, including the ex-husband of Kerrigan’s rival, Tonya Harding, go to prison for their roles in the attack.

2014: The U.S. Supreme Court stays a decision by a federal judge striking down Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage so that the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver could decide the issue. (In June 2014, the Court of Appeals overturned the ban; in October, the U.S Supreme Court turned away appeals from five states seeking to preserve their bans, including Utah.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Mahoning Valley legislators offer mixed reviews of Gov. George Voinovich’s State of the State message in which he called for metal detectors and drug-sniffing dogs in schools and the streamlining of death-sentence appeals.

The Rev. Arthur V. Swinehart, 75, who served Austintown Community United Church for nearly five decades, dies in Southside Medical Center after a long illness. He had been chaplain of the Austintown Fire Department and president of the Youngstown Ministerial Association, among many religious and civic services.

Some 2,400 United Auto Workers at the General Motors metal-fabricating plant at Lordstown will vote Jan. 18 on whether to adopt a three-crew, two-shift work schedule that has proved successful at other GM facilities.

1979: United States Steel Corp. reaches a $1 billion contract with China to develop the largest iron ore mining facility in the world in northeastern China near the country’s steel producing region of Anshan.

Youngstown will ask the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to take over maintenance of Lake Milton Dam and to limit the fluctuation of the level of the lake.

The Lakeview Assembly of God will build a new $200,000 sanctuary and educational wing on Mahoning Avenue in Lake Milton.

1969: Rates for private duty nurses in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties have been increased to $30 a day for registered nurses and $22.50 for practical nurses.

James Noel, 30, a Negley brick punt worker, and his two small daughters are in fair condition in Salem City Hospital with burns received in a fire at their farmhouse off Negley-Peace Valley Road.

A group of 29 Mahoning Valley Vocational School students are questioned for several hours and then returned to the school after Mahoning County deputies could not determine who tossed a firecracker on a Greyhound bus during a field trip.

1944: Cyril Miller, 49, a meter reader for the East Ohio Gas Co. for more than 17 years, dies of rabies in St. Elizabeth Hospital, five weeks after being bitten by a dog while reading a gas meter at a Vestal Road home.

Ida Minerva Tarbell, former teacher at Poland Academy, America’s outstanding biographer of Abraham Lincoln and dean of American women writers, dies of pneumonia at age 86.

Maj. Thomas Kenny of 166 Wesley Ave., Youngstown, tells an Associated Press reporter in Britain that he met his “most difficult mission” during a terrific air battle while making a bombing run over Keil. Kenny has flown 19 missions, including Schweinfurt.