YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 14

Today is Monday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2019. There are 351 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1784: The United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War; Britain follows suit in April 1784.

1898: Author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson – better known as “Alice in Wonderland” creator Lewis Carroll – dies in Guildford, Surrey, England, less than two weeks before his 66th birthday.

1967: The “Summer of Love” unofficially begins with a “Human Be-In” involving tens of thousands of young people at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

1970: Diana Ross and the Supremes perform their last concert together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.

1994: President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign an accord to stop aiming missiles at any nation.

2014: Sporadic violence flares across much of Egypt as a two-day referendum on a new constitution begins.

2018: On the defensive in the wake of disparaging comments about Haiti and African nations, President Donald Trump told reporters, “I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed.”

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1994: Waste Management of Ohio-Youngstown says it will open an office in Youngstown and hire 12 residents if it gets the city’s trash-collection contract.

The week of Jan. 18-22 has been declared YSU Week by the Youngstown Post Office and its branches and stations in honor of Youngstown State University’s national championship football team.

Mike Soroka, a 1980 graduate of Campbell Memorial High School, is named varsity football coach of his alma mater.

1979: Dr. H.W. Paxton, U.S. Steel Corp.’s vice president of research, says a proposal to convert properties of the former Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. into a national steel research center is “ill-considered.”

Hubbard High School history teacher Frank J. Quartino has supervised the recording of oral histories of 27 Hubbard veterans of the Vietnam War. Many of the interviews were conducted by Quartino’s students and the recordings are on file at the Hubbard High media center.

The Youngstown Hospital Association has located about 500 of 3,000 former YHA patients who received X-ray treatments decades ago to treat thymus gland enlargement in infancy. The search began after a “60 Minutes” report on increased cancer rates among patients receiving such treatments.

1969: Youngstown police arrest 23 juveniles while breaking up a violent gang fight at the Lake Glacier Boat House involving students from Chaney and Campbell Memorial high schools. About 60 people were involved, but most escaped.

Marine Pfc. Abron E. Davis, 21, a 1967 graduate of East High School, is Mahoning County’s first Vietnam combat fatality of 1969 and the 63rd of the war.

Damage is expected to reach $50,000 in a two-alarm blaze that struck the Western Auto store on Market Street. Four other establishments suffered smoke and water damages.

Ten-year-old Eugene Straub of Salem is killed when his sled ran off his front yard and was hit by a car on Teagarden Road.

1944: Nearly 20 congressmen arrive in Youngstown to join U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan on two days of touring the Mahoning Valley and its war plants, which will culminate with the dedication of the Mosquito Creek dam.

Major John Willard, commanding officer of the Keystone Ordnance Works in Mercer, Pa., announces operations at the plant where TNT has been made will be discontinued Jan. 16.

A two-alarm fire destroys Clear Silk Hosiery Store, West Federal Street, and damages two adjoining buildings. Estimated loss: $75,000.