YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 10

Today is Thursday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2019. There are 355 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1776: Thomas Paine anonymously publishes his influential pamphlet, “Common Sense,” which argues for American independence from British rule.

1860: The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Mass., collapses and catches fire, killing up to 145 people, mostly female workers from Scotland and Ireland.

1863: The London Underground has its beginnings as the Metropolitan, the world’s first underground passenger railway, opens.

1870: John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

1946: The first General Assembly of the United Nations convenes in London.

1967: Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first black person elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, takes his seat.

2000: America Online announces it is buying Time Warner for $162 billion.

2006: Iran resumes nuclear research two years after halting the work to avoid possible U.N. economic sanctions.

2018: Immigration agents descend on dozens of 7-Eleven stores nationwide before dawn to check on the immigration status of employees.

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1994: Youngstown’s homicide rate, which skyrocketed from 19 in 1990 to 59 in 1991, is slowly receding, with 53 in 1992 and 48 in 1993.

Mahoning County Juvenile Court Judge James McNally says he’s working on a modified “boot camp” concept that would offer 12 to 16 hours of instruction a day to some juvenile offenders but would not house them overnight because of the additional cost.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge William G. Houser says he will retire at the end of his current term on Dec. 31, closing out more than 40 years of public service.

1979: Former state Rep. Margaret Dennison is appointed a Trumbull County commissioner by the county’s Republican Central Committee, filling a vacancy created when Lyle Williams took his seat in Congress. She is believed to be the first woman to serve on the Trumbull County board.

Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp says the state has no environmental objections to U.S. Steel Corp. building a mammoth steel plant in Conneaut.

The 7th District Court of Appeals rules that a trial must be held in a suit filed by the Animal Charity League challenging the legality of using strychnine-laced corn to reduce Youngstown’s downtown pigeon population. The suit says the practice is inhumane and possibly dangerous to the public, but Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt declared it reasonable without holding a trial.

1969: The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. board of directors rejects a merger offer from Lykes Corp., a New Orleans holding company.

Mahoning County has lopped $1.4 million in property valuation for 12 downtown property owners who for years have fought the Mahoning Board of Tax Revision, claiming values too high.

WYTV (Channel 33) will not return to the air until its 600-foot transmission tower is ruled able to withstand 125 mph winds. The tower has been undergoing repairs.

1944: George E. Beil, yeoman first class, one of four brothers in the service, is reported killed in the collision of his Navy patrol ship, the St. Augustine, with a merchant vessel in the Atlantic, 60 miles off Cape May, N.J.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Chicago district works at Indiana Harbor, Ind., has been selected to receive the Army-Navy “E” production award for outstanding war production.