YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 21

YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 21

Today is Monday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2019. There are 344 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1793: During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, is executed on the guillotine.

1861: Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and four other Southerners whose states have seceded from the Union resign from the U.S. Senate.

1908: New York City’s Board of Aldermen passes an ordinance prohibiting women from smoking in public establishments.

1954: The first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched at Groton, Conn.

1968: The North Vietnamese Army launches a full-scale assault against the U.S. combat base in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, in a siege lasting 11 weeks.

1977: On his first full day in office, President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.

1997: Speaker Newt Gingrich is reprimanded and fined as the House votes for the first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct.

2003: The Census Bureau announces that Hispanics have surpassed blacks as America’s largest minority group.

2009: The Senate confirms Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state.

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1994: A study indicates 26 percent of Mahoning County adults smoke, but only three people show up for a hearing to discuss restrictions on smoking in public.

The Packard Electric Division of General Motors Corp. will move 430 final assembly jobs from the Thomas Road plant in Warren to Mexico. Packard spokesman Jim Kobus says there will be no layoffs in Warren because of the change.

Mahoning County commissioners hire Thomas F. Stanko, 39, former chief deputy in the county auditor’s office, to direct the new Office of Management and Budget.

1979: Lawrence County, Pa., will drop 7,135 voters who have not voted for two years from its rolls unless they mail back voter registration reinstatement cards by Jan. 31.

The 240,000-square-foot Trumbull County Joint Vocational School, built after voters passed a 2.4-mill levy in 1975, now has 700 students pursuing 40 different vocational programs.

A Warren policeman shoots and kills a man fleeing from a robbery at the Gray Drug store in the Austin Village Plaza after he ignored orders to stop.

1969: An $8 million village of 1,200 to 1,800 homes is planned for Lordstown Township on the west side of Meander Reservoir to provide housing primarily for General Motors plant employees.

A 16-year-old Struthers youth confesses making hundreds of obscene telephone calls to a Boardman weight-reducing salon and several dance studios. He picked sites to assure the highest chance of a woman answering the phone.

Austintown Township trustees delay for at least 20 days action on a zone change requested by Chrysler Corp. to build a dealership on 4 acres on Mahoning Avenue.

1944: Campbell City Council passes a resolution calling on Congress to rename the Mosquito Creek Reservoir to Kirwan Lake in honor of U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan.

Patrick “Pack” Scanlon, 70-year-old confessed numbers rackets leader, must serve his 90-day sentence in jail as Judge Adrian Newcomb refused probation because of poor health.

The Diocese of Youngstown buys the lot and three-story brick apartment building at 141 W. Rayen Ave. and two lots at Elm Street and Rayen Avenue. The cost is $56,750.