Thursday, January 31, 2019
Today is Thursday, Jan. 31, the 31st day of 2019. There are 334 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1606: Englishman Guy Fawkes, convicted of high treason for his part in the “Gunpowder Plot,” is set to be hanged, drawn and quartered, but he breaks his neck after falling or jumping from the scaffold.
1865: The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in passing the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery, sending it to states for ratification.
1950: President Harry S. Truman announces he has ordered development of the hydrogen bomb.
1961: NASA launches Ham the Chimp aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral.
1971: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa blast off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon.
2005: Jury selection begins in Santa Maria, Calif., for Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial. (Jackson was later acquitted.)
2018: A train carrying dozens of Republican members of Congress to a strategy retreat crashes into a garbage truck in rural Virginia, killing one person in the truck and injuring others; there are no serious injuries aboard the chartered Amtrak train.
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1994: Bernie Kosar, fired by the Cleveland Browns on Nov. 8 after clashing with Coach Bill Belichick, gets a Super Bowl ring as back-up quarterback on the Dallas Cowboys, who defeated Buffalo 30-13 in Super Bowl XXVIII.
Ten inmates at the Trumbull Correctional Institution repair desks, chairs and dividers for Horace Mann Elementary School in Warren in the prison’s “Adopt a School” program.
Frankie Randall of Warren upsets Julio Cesar Chavez in the World Boxing Council super-lightweight championship match in Las Vegas. It was the first time Chavez lost in his career.
1979: Dr. Thomas A. Shipka of the Youngstown State University faculty takes out candidate petitions for the Democratic nomination for Youngstown mayor.
One gunman stands guard over nine employees while an accomplice forces the manager of Holowach’s Sparkle Market on South Meridian Road to clean out the cash registers and a safe.
The Niles Classroom Teachers Association easily defeats its rival labor organization, the Niles Federation of Teachers, in a vote to determine representation for more than 200 Niles teachers.
Judy Becker, a junior at McDonald High School, is leaving to spend a year in Colombia under an exchange program sponsored by the Girard-Liberty Rotary Club.
1969: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. directors are reported to have reached an agreement with Lykes Corp. on its latest proposal to merge with Sheet & Tube. Investors are enthusiastic.
General Motors Lordstown plant resumes operations after a two-day wildcat strike that idled 5,000 workers ends on orders from top officials of the United Auto Workers.
A steady four-day downpour amounts to slightly more than a third of the normal rainfall for the month bringing Meander Reservoir to 99 percent of capacity and only 2 inches below the flashboards.
1944: Youngstown Fire Department engineers Frank R. Ellis, 47, and Charles F. Young, 67, are promoted to captains. Young, who joined the department in 1907, has a son who is a policeman and two daughters married to firemen.
Sale of the Warren City Tank & Boiler Co. plant for $16 million is in the negotiation stage. The plant would be used in peace time for production of farm tractors.
Contributions to the 1944 campaign of the friends of Youngstown College Library will make possible a new building, which is sorely needed. About $7,000 is being spent yearly for books and periodicals.