YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 20

Today is Sunday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2019. There are 345 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1649: King Charles I of England goes on trial, accused of high treason (he was found guilty and executed by month’s end).

1887: The U.S. Senate approves an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.

1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first chief executive to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 instead of March 4.

1942: Nazi officials hold the notorious Wannsee conference, during which they arrive at their “final solution” that calls for exterminating Europe’s Jews.

1953: Dwight D. Eisenhower takes the oath of office as president of the United States; Richard M. Nixon is sworn in as vice president.

1964: Capitol Records releases the album “Meet the Beatles!”

1969: Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th president of the United States.

1981: Iran releases 52 Americans it has held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

1986: The United States observes the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

1989: George H.W. Bush is sworn in as the 41st president of the United States; Dan Quayle is sworn in as vice president.

1994: Shannon Faulkner becomes the first woman to attend classes at The Citadel in South Carolina. (Faulkner joined the cadet corps in August 1995 under court order but soon dropped out, citing isolation and stress from the legal battle.)

2001: George Walker Bush becomes America’s 43rd president after one of the most turbulent elections in U.S. history.

2009: Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation’s 44th, as well as first African-American, president.

Russian natural gas begins flowing into Ukraine after a nearly two-week cutoff that left large parts of Europe cold and dark.

2014: Iran unplugs banks of centrifuges involved in its most sensitive nuclear enrichment program, prompting the U.S. and the European Union to partially lift economic sanctions as a landmark deal aimed at easing concerns over Iran’s nuclear program goes into effect.

American missionary Kenneth Bae, jailed in North Korea for more than a year, appears before reporters in Pyongyang and appeals to the U.S. government to do its best to secure his release. (Bae and fellow American Matthew Miller were freed in November 2014.)

2017: Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, pledging emphatically to empower America’s “forgotten men and women.” Protesters register their rage against the new president in a chaotic confrontation with police just blocks from the inaugural parade.

2018: A dispute in Congress over spending and immigration forces scores of federal government agencies and outposts to close their doors; tourists are turned away from sites including the Statue of Liberty and Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. (Congress voted two days later to temporarily pay for resumed operations.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: James Keating, Trumbull County personnel director, says he screened more than 80 applicants for a job at the Juvenile Court and forwarded 10 names to Judge Thomas E. Schubert, who hired Ray Reber, former United Steel Workers leader, for the job of supervisor. He was not among Keating’s recommendations.

Hurt by a continuing deterioration in the titanium market, RMI of Niles reports losses of $28.9 million on sales of $127.4 million for 1993.

Two children are hospitalized for frostbite and four others are in the care of social services after police found them in a Wilson Avenue house with no heat and burst water pipes. Bitter cold has seen temperatures in minus-double-digits range.

1979: A man stopped by Ohio State Highway Patrolman Stephen Horsley on suspicion of driving a stolen car on I-80 in Austintown commandeered Horsley’s cruiser. Horsley fired on the fleeing cruiser, shattering its rear window. The cruiser was recovered on Youngstown’s North Side two hours later.

Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone urges pastors in the diocese to toll their church bells at noon Jan. 22 to mark the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on abortion six years ago.

Ohio’s former Democratic governor, John J. Gilligan, now head of the federal Agency for International Development, says the U.S. should not raise tariff walls to protect itself from imports because the country would benefit more from fair trade.

1969: Roger Steinman, 20, a junior at Youngstown State University, performs Greig’s “Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus 16,” before 2,000 people at Stambaugh Auditorium.

Dr. Jack Schreiber, who has won numerous national honors and appeared on network TV programs, is named Canfield’s “Man of the Year.”

Debaters from Austintown Fitch High School chalk up a 7-1 record to win a debate tournament sponsored by Youngstown State University’s Department of Speech and Drama.

1944: Youngstown salvage chairman James C. Ryan says Youngstown housewives are getting lackadaisical about donating tin cans to the war effort. Cans must be clean, have labels removed and be flattened after both ends have been removed. Youngstown’s record as one of the finest tin salvagers is in jeopardy.

A jury of eight women and four men acquits Sarah Rafoth, Republican judge in Precinct X of Youngstown’s 3rd Ward, of two counts of violating election laws in connection with irregularities in the November count.

Some Youngstown industrial plants may be reconverted soon to make civilian goods as part of Production Chief Donald Nelson’s plan for a limited “laboratory test” of reconversion.