YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 19

Today is Friday, Jan. 18, the 18th day of 2019. There are 347 days left in the year.

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On this date in :

1778: English navigator Captain James Cook reaches the present-day Hawaiian Islands, which he named the “Sandwich Islands.”

1904: Actor Cary Grant is born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England.

1919: The Paris Peace Conference, held to negotiate peace treaties ending the First World War, opened in Versailles, France.

1936: Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling, 70, dies in London.

1967: Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the “Boston Strangler,” is convicted of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. (Sentenced to life, DeSalvo is killed in prison in 1973.)

1975: The situation comedy “The Jeffersons,” a spin-off from “All in the Family,” premieres on CBS-TV.

1991: Financially strapped Eastern Airlines shuts down after more than six decades in business.

1993: The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is observed in all 50 states for the first time.

2001: President Bill Clinton, in a farewell from the Oval Office, tells the nation that America has “done well” during his presidency, with record-breaking prosperity and a cleaner environment.

2005: The world’s largest commercial jet, the Airbus A380 “superjumbo” capable of flying up to 800 passengers, is unveiled in Toulouse, France.

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1994: The National Weather Service says a minus 10 reading at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport broke a record for the date set in 1977 when the temperature was -6.

Anthony Vivo, Mahoning County’s clerk of courts for 33 years, dies in Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, after exploratory surgery. He was 78.

Mt. Calvary Pentecostal Church buys the Idora Park property from Consumers United Insurance Co. for $1. The church had lost the park to foreclosure five years before.

1979: Niles City Council considers annexing Waddell Park from Weathersfield Township so it will be patrolled by city police after the rape of a 7-year-old girl at the park.

Dr. David Levy, family physician in practice for 44 years, moves to the new Family Practice Center at St. Elizabeth Hospital, where he will help train a new generation of family doctors.

Sea World of Ohio at Aurora had attendance of 1,298,418 in 1978, down 1.9 percent from a year earlier.

1969: Spec. 5 John Mirich, 22, of Elm Street, Struthers, dies in a helicopter accident on a flight between Saigon and Cambodia.

The first step toward possible establishment of a medical school at Youngstown State University is introduced at a meeting of the Mahoning Medical Society.

Donald Glass, manager of the Youngstown Municipal Airport for 10 years, announces his resignation to take a higher-paying post at the Reading, Pa., Airport Authority.

1944: Frank Kills, former president of the Youngstown Shrine Club and past commander of St. John’s Commandery 20, Knights Templar, is installed as potentate of Al Koran Shrine in a ceremony in Cleveland.

Former city councilman Owen James volunteers for evangelistic service. While at class, his car is towed to a garage on Rayen Avenue. While walking there, he is attacked, beaten and robbed.

Esther Hamilton writes that Jack Hynes, manager of the Paramount Theater, has faced the challenge of finding lodging for a “Porgy and Bess” cast of 90, orchestra of 20, and one auxiliary cast member, a goat. Now he’s trying to get seats for everyone who wants to see the show.