YEARS AGO FOR JAN. 30

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2019. There are 335 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1649: England’s King Charles I is executed for high treason.

1933: Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.

1948: Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, is shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

1968: The Tet Offensive begins during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launch surprise attacks against South Vietnamese towns and cities.

1969: The Beatles stage an impromptu concert atop Apple headquarters in London, the group’s last public performance.

1973: The rock group KISS performs its first show at a club in Queens, N.Y.

2006: Coretta Scott King, widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dies in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, at age 78.

2009: Michael Steele is elected the first black chairman of the Republican National Committee.

2018: In his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump calls on Congress to make good on long-standing promises to fix a fractured immigration system.

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1994: The Sharon Regional Health System, which has been expanding for a decade, now has a dozen satellite facilities throughout the Shenango Valley.

The National Rifle Association kicks off its nationwide 1994 Great American Hunters Tour at the Holiday Inn MetroPlex in Liberty Township. Twelve magnificent mounted deer heads are on display.

Stephanie J. Jones, formerly of Youngstown and daughter of 6th Circuit Appeals Court Judge Nathaniel Jones, is named by President Bill Clinton to be the education department’s representative to the six-state region headquartered in Chicago.

1979: Carolyn Lee Houlihan, an 18-year-old honor roll senior at Ursuline High School, is named Miss Ohio-USA during a pageant at the Fort Steuben Mall in Steubenville.

Principal Burton Wragg and custodian Michael Suchar are shot and killed by a 16-year-old female sniper at a San Diego elementary school. Suchar was born in Campbell, lived for many years in Kinsman and still has relatives in Trumbull County.

U.S. Rep. Clarence Brown, R-7th, Urbana, speaks at the 64th Mahoning Valley McKinley Club banquet at the McKinley Memorial.

1969: The Youngstown Foundry & Machine Co.’s Reserve Street and Boardman Street plants remain closed as 170 workmen go on a wildcat strike. Company President Bertram Parker and the International Association of Machinists urge the men to return to work.

Morton May of St. Louis, chairman of the May Department Stores Co., joins 450 Strouss Hirsh-berg Co. employees at the Mural Room to honor R. Burton Kerr, Strouss’ president who is retiring after 40 years.

A million-dollar renovation and expansion for the downtown Strouss’ store and building of a warehouse in west Austintown is revealed at a testimonial dinner for R. Burton Kerr.

1944: Two Youngstown men, Seaman Donald Barrett and Sgt. Edward Bruce, are confirmed to have died in Japanese prisoner of war camps where conditions are brutal. Other area men known to have been captured are Capts. George McMillin, Walter Bartz, Nathan Belinky and Adanto A.S. D’Amore; Sgts. Robert Davies and June Begala; Pvts. Wilbur Russell and August Battisti, and Seamen Wallace S. Boz and Chester Yannucci.

Four honorary decorations for Lt. Col. James Watt of Youngstown will be presented posthumously to his widow at the auditorium of Westinghouse Electric in Turtle Creek, Pa.

Atty. Paul Z. Hodge of Niles, former Niles city solicitor, is elected president of the Mahoning Valley McKinley Club.