YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 12

Today is Saturday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2019. There are 353 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1828: The United States and Mexico sign a Treaty of Limits defining the boundary between the two countries.

1915: The U.S. House of Representatives rejects, 204-174, a proposed constitutional amendment to give women nationwide the right to vote.

1932: Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate after initially being appointed to serve out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus.

1945: During World War II, Soviet forces begin a major, successful offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe.

1959: Berry Gordy Jr. founds Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit.

1966: The TV series “Batman,” starring Adam West and Burt Ward as the Dynamic Duo, premieres on ABC, airing twice a week on consecutive nights.

1971: The groundbreaking situation comedy “All in the Family” premieres on CBS-TV.

1998: Linda Tripp provides Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

2014: Officials announce that Iran has agreed to limit uranium enrichment and to open its nuclear program to daily inspection by international experts.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Austintown trustees approve creation of an enterprise zone that will allow for tax abatements for businesses. The area is bounded by Mahoning Avenue and Lipkey, Silica and Meridian roads.

Toys R Us, the giant retailer that operates a distribution center in Youngstown, announces an expansion program that will add 115 stores to the chain, including sites in the Middle East. About 20 percent of the company’s sales are in foreign countries.

East Side leaders say they should be involved in planning for a proposed super-max prison so that if Youngstown wins the project, East Siders will get priority on jobs.

1979: Trumbull Common Pleas Judge David McLain issues a temporary restraining order permitting Medicaid payments to resume to two Trumbull County nursing homes. The payments had been suspended by the Ohio Department of Public Welfare.

The Ohio Bell Telephone Co. will spend more than $21 million in the Youngstown district in 1979. One project involves removing cable from beneath the Market Street Bridge before it is demolished.

James “Peeps” Cononico, a federal parolee and long-time area underworld figure, is shot in the chest as he walked from his pickup truck to the front door of the Mahoning County Residential Treatment Center at 1764 Market St., where he had been serving his probation.

1969: Pictured returning home from Vietnam is Sgt. James Dunn, who was greeted by his wife, Helga, and son, Jim, whom he was seeing for the first time.

Youngstown State University has charted a $73 million construction course for the next six years. The state is being asked to provide all but $7 million of the cost for 15 major new buildings.

A survey shows that almost a fourth of 4,000 Youngstown-area senior high students and adult school employees say they are “hooked” on cigarettes. The highest percentages were at Mooney and the lowest in Sebring and West Branch.

1944: Control of Youngstown College and complete financial responsibility for the institution is passed to the board of governors of Youngstown College Corp. as trustees of the YMCA vote to separate the two institutions.

Sheriff Ralph Elser says he will have no comment on his meeting with Judge Adrian Newcomb during which he was threatened with being held in contempt of court for balking at releasing gamblers for the holidays from the county jail.