YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 29

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2019. There are 336 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1820: King George III dies at Windsor Castle at age 81; he is succeeded by his son, who becomes King George IV.

1845: Edgar Allan Poe’s famous narrative poem “The Raven” is first published in the New York Evening Mirror.

1919: The ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launched Prohibition, is certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk.

1936: The first inductees of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, are named in Cooperstown, N.Y.

1963: The first charter members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame are named in Canton, Ohio.

1998: A bomb rocks an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing security guard Robert Sanderson and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons.

2009: President Barack Obama signs The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, giving workers more time to take their pay discrimination cases to court.

2018: The Cleveland Indians announce they will remove the Chief Wahoo logo from their uniforms in the coming baseball season.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Isam K. Salman, 32, owner of the Midway Market at Elm Street and New York Avenue, and Hayder Al Turk, 30, a clerk, are found shot to death behind the counter.

One of three Austintown teenagers charged in the beating death of Rose Bertolini, 72, of Austintown will be tried as an adult. Judge James McNally will rule later on whether the other two are candidates for rehabilitation as juveniles or should also be tried as adults.

Two Warren Board of Education members are discussing creation of a second junior high building because of excessive fights and disturbances at Western Reserve Junior High.

1979: Youngstown Mayor J. Phillip Richley suggests that the city charter be amended from seven ward councilmen to a combination of ward representatives and some number of councilmen-at-large, who would represent needs of the total community.

A wildcat strike stemming from layoffs shuts down Conrail operations at General Motors huge Lordstown plant.

1969: A yearlong program of community beautification gains the village of Poland an award from the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix up Bureau as one of the 10 best in the nation.

Youngstown State University expects to be “on the air” before summer with its own noncommercial FM radio station, but the outlook for bringing an educational television station to the campus is still uncertain.

The YMCA’s $2 million development fund campaign should be completed by the end of March, and the site cleared and work on the new building under way in the summer.

1944: Aroused by two successive cases of parental neglect, in which children were not receiving even bare necessities of life, Judge Henry Beckenbach lashes the parents verbally and advocates punishment for them at a whipping post.

The eighth annual President’s Birthday Ball attracts 2,000 to Stambaugh Auditorium to raise money for the county infantile paralysis fund.

Pfc. William Day, 24; Pfc. Harold Day, 18; and Lt. Frederick Day, 27, sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Day, New Springfield, are in the service, two in the South Pacific and one in Chicago in the Naval Reserves.