YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 24

Today is Thursday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2019. There are 341 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1848: James W. Marshall discovers a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern California, a discovery that leads to the gold rush of ’49.

1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill end a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.

1965: British statesman Winston Churchill dies in London at 90.

1984: Apple Computer begins selling its first Macintosh model.

1993: Retired Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall dies in Bethesda, Md., at 84.

2009: Pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who’d safely landed a crippled US Airways jetliner in the Hudson River, receives a hero’s homecoming in Danville, Calif.

2013: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announces the lifting of a ban on women serving in combat.

2014: A truck bombing struck the main security headquarters in Cairo, one of a string of bombings targeting police in a 10-hour period, killing six people on the eve of the third anniversary of the revolt that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak and left the Arab nation deeply divided.

2018: President Donald Trump tells reporters that he will be willing to answer questions under oath from special counsel Robert Mueller.

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1994: Ohio education officials are considering a plan that would allow some high school seniors to get a diploma even if they can’t pass the ninth- grade proficiency test. Statewide, 8.8 percent of seniors haven’t passed the test; in Youngstown, it is 27.5 percent.

Finding out that a white operating engineer had been reported as black puts the Mahoning County Jail construction project out of compliance with minority hiring standards for the project.

About 2 feet is being removed from the top of the Lake Newport Dam with most of the $422,000 cost being paid from a state Issue 2 grant.

1979: The Warren Board of Education orders the Desegregation Commission to continue development of two plans to desegregate city schools, including one that would institute systemwide busing.

A disgruntled customer is suspected of brutally beating Shirley Pauley, 29, as she left the Sons of Italy on Dearborn Street. Youngstown police said the man was unhappy when he was told to leave at the closing time of 1 a.m.

The Rayen School boys basketball team protects its hold on the City Series lead, sailing past Chaney, 85-46, and stretching its unbeaten streak to 11 games.

1969: Warren Mayor Raymond Schryver and representatives of Police and Firemen’s Association are to meet to discuss a sick-out by 180 members of the city’s safety forces that has gone on for almost a week.

Dr. Samuel Sheppard, beset by professional and domestic problems since his acquittal in 1966 in a retrial of a charge of murdering his wife, is opening a medical office in Columbus.

One hundred and fifty-five undeliverable 1968 Internal Revenue checks await Youngstown area taxpayers. The checks range from $1.23 to several thousand dollars.

1944: Ohio’s new 1944 license plates, white letters on a dark blue background, will become available March 1 and must be displayed by April 1. Only one plate will be available because of war shortages.

Dry weather, which has already hit Mahoning Valley war industries and damaged winter crops, may hit eastern Ohio agricultural crops next summer with a severe drought.

George A. Bowman, superintendent of Youngstown schools, is appointed president of Kent State University, subject to his release by the Youngstown Board of Education.