YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 15

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2019. There are 350 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1559: England’s Queen Elizabeth I is crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1892: The original rules of basketball, devised by James Naismith, are published for the first time in Springfield, Mass., where the game originated.

1919: In Boston, a tank containing an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses bursts, sending the dark syrup coursing through the city’s North End, killing 21 people.

1929: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. is born in Atlanta.

1943: Work is completed on the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of War (now Defense).

1967: The Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeat the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League 35-10 in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, retroactively known as Super Bowl I.

1973: President Richard M. Nixon announces the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.

1989: NATO, the Warsaw Pact and 12 other European countries adopt a human-rights and security agreement in Vienna, Austria.

1993: A historic disarmament ceremony ends in Paris with the last of 125 countries signing a treaty banning chemical weapons.

2009: US Airways Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger ditches his Airbus 320 in the Hudson River after a flock of birds disables both engines; all 155 people aboard survive.

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1994: A one-day strike by service workers in Warren leaves roads ice-slicked, numerous fender benders and two waterline breaks.

The New Castle Chapter of People Concerned for the Unborn Child will conduct its eighth annual vigil Jan. 22 on Kennedy Square.

Protestant Family Services of Greater Youngstown, which helps poor people with food, clothing, housing and referrals, will celebrate 50 years of service with a dinner at St. John’s Episcopal Church.

1979: Members of the Youngstown chapter of the Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers end their weeks-long highway strike, which was marked by truckers parking their rigs and violence against trucks that were on the road.

A strike by 28 members of the Austintown Police Department is in its third day as trustees refuse to negotiate until the police officers return to work.

Steel imports in the first 11 months of 1978 total 19.7 million tons, which exceeds the 19.3 million tons produced by the U.S. Steel Corp., the nation’s largest domestic steel producer.

1969: Twenty-one Eagle Scouts from Youngstown will be ushers and guides in presidential and congressional boxes during the inaugural parade for President Richard Nixon.

Youngstown’s Negro community crowds New Bethel Baptist Church for a two-hour ceremony marking the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Damages and the cause are both undetermined after a 13-car derailment in Campbell of a B&O freight train. They were part of the 120-car “New Yorker” carrying freight from Willard, Ohio, to New Castle, Pa.

1944: Marine Pfc. Howard Price, 18, of Woodworth, is killed in action in the Pacific Theater, just a little more than a year after his brother, Richard Price, 23, was killed in action in New Guinea.

The Fourth War Loan Drive in Mahoning County to sell $18 million in bonds will open with a mass meeting of Mahoning County retailers in the Warner Theater. Eight thousand retailers in the county are participating.

Warren’s largest apartment building, Southview Apartments on Perkinswood Boulevard, are opening. It was designed by architect Arsene Rousseau and built under FHA supervision by Atlas Engineering Co. of Youngstown.