Today is Friday, Dec. 6, the 340th day of 2002. There are 25 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Dec. 6, the 340th day of 2002. There are 25 days left in the year. On this date in 1889, Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, dies in New Orleans.
In 1884, Army engineers complete construction of the Washington Monument. In 1921, British and Irish representatives sign a treaty in London providing for creation of an Irish Free State. In 1923, a presidential address is broadcast on radio for the first time as President Coolidge speaks to a joint session of Congress. In 1947, Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated by President Truman. In 1957, America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit blows up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. In 1957, AFL-CIO members vote to expel the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. (The Teamsters are readmitted in 1987.) In 1973, House minority leader Gerald R. Ford is sworn in as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew. In 1982, 11 soldiers and six civilians are killed when an Irish National Liberation Army bomb explodes in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland.
December 6, 1977: C. Roman Smith Jr., whose father, the late C.R. Smith, founded Adamas Lapidary and Gem Shop at 8391 Market St. Ext., Boardman, nearly 30 years ago as an art and hobby center, has developed into the finest one of its kind in this part of the country.
Ronald Carabbia of Poland is indicted by a federal grand jury in Cleveland in the bombing assassinations of Cleveland waterfront boss Danny Green and Teamster leader John Nardi.
Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent E. Gilmartin will launch a prove into violations of state election laws on the basis of an investigation by the Board of Elections which claims 51 false registrations and at least two people voting twice in November.
December 6, 1962: Winter muscles its way into the Youngstown district with up to 5 inches of snow and another 4 to 8 inches are on the way.
Two former Youngstown city officials pay back $1,377 in travel expenses that state examiners said they received illegally while serving under former Mayor Frank R. Franko. The money was spent on trips to two conventions not directly related to city business and a football weekend in Philadelphia.
Smog deaths rise to 66 in London, England, from a polluted fog that has enveloped the city for three days. Some officials fear a repeat of 1952, when 4,000 persons were killed by a sulfurous smoke.
December 6, 1952: A natural gas explosion reduces a three-story home on Pittsburgh's North Side to rubble, killing all six children in the family. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moulis ranged in age from 5 to 14 years old. The force of the blast blew the parents from the building and trapped the children inside.
William Carney, 39, a Youngstown fireman, dies when flames gut his home at 3190 Oak St. Extension. The fire apparently began near a couch where Carney was sleeping, but the cause has not been determined.
The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority is temporarily halted from taking possession of, or paying for, 18 acres of privately owned property it is trying to get from St. Stephen's club for a slum elimination project.
December 6, 1927: An Alliance ice delivery man has asked police to mount a search of his daughter, age 12, and a 21-year-old boarder in the family home, who disappeared Nov. 30.
Youngstown City Council passes a resolution urging immediate construction of a dam on Meander Creek to create a reservoir as a domestic water supply for Youngstown and Niles.
Henry Clemens is the fourth Youngstown policeman killed on duty in five years. His family will be the first to benefit under a $5,000 insurance policy established by former Chief Kedgwin Powell for all city police officers.
Several students at Mount Union College face expulsion and possible arrest as a result of a raid on the college library and desecration of the traditions of the school which was meant as a practical joke. The miscreants took thousands of volumes from the shelves and piled them about the room A stuffed ape from the museum was seated on a stack of bibles, a copy of Darwin's "Origin of Species" in its paws.