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Local history
50 years ago: 1974
Lafferty Trucking Co. was to shut down and Ward Trucking Co. and Drenning Leasing Co. were taking a "wait-and-see" posture due to an impending strike by independent owner-operator truckers to protest the high cost of fuel and 55-mile-an-hour speed limit. Violence against moving truckers was a main concern.
25 years ago: 1999
Nelson W. Baker Jr., 27, Patton, was nominated to receive a Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Award. He died trying to save 14-year-old Ryan Sharp from drowning in Chest Creek in December. Sharp also died.
10 years ago: 2014
The former Lakemont Elementary School, built in 1906, had been converted into eight apartments called the Legacy Suites at Lakemont by developer Nate Diehl, an almost two-year effort. The building had also housed Penn Mont Academy.
-- Compiled by Tim Doyle
World history
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2024. There are 336 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
On Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
On this date:
-- In 1649, England's King Charles I was executed for high treason.
-- In 1911, James White, an intellectually disabled young Black man who had been convicted of rape for having sex with a 14-year-old white girl when he was 16, was publicly hanged in Bell County, Kentucky.
-- In 1945, during World War II, a Soviet submarine torpedoed the German ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea, killing 9,000, most of them war refugees; roughly 1,000 people survived.
-- In 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
-- In 1968, the Tet Offensive began during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese towns and cities.
-- In 1969, The Beatles staged an impromptu concert atop Apple headquarters in London that would be their last public performance.
-- In 1972, 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot and killed by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
-- In 1993, Los Angeles inaugurated its Metro Red Line, the city's first modern subway.
-- In 2005, Iraqis voted in their country's first free election in a half-century; President George W. Bush called the balloting a resounding success.
-- In 2006, Coretta Scott King, widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, at age 78.
-- In 2017, President Donald Trump fired Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates after she publicly questioned the constitutionality of his controversial refugee and immigration ban and refused to defend it in court.
-- In 2020, health officials reported the first known case in which the new coronavirus was spread from one person to another in the United States.
-- The Associated Press