Today is Friday, Dec. 26, the 360th day of 2003. There are five days left in the year. This is the

Today is Friday, Dec. 26, the 360th day of 2003. There are five days left in the year. This is the first day of the weeklong African-American holiday Kwanzaa. This is Boxing Day.
On this date in 1776, the British suffer a major defeat in the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War. In 1799, former President George Washington is eulogized by Col. Henry Lee as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen." In 1893, Chinese leader Mao Zedong is born in Hunan province. In 1917, during World War I, the U.S. government takes over operation of the nation's railroads. In 1941, Winston Churchill becomes the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress. In 1944, in the World War II Battle of the Bulge, the embattled U.S. 101st Airborne Division is relieved by units of the 4th Armored Division. In 1972, the 33rd president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, dies in Kansas City, Mo.
December 26, 1978: Production at the closed Jones & amp; Laughlin conduit plants in Niles and New Kensington, Pa., could be resumed as early as March if several things fall into place.
An eight-year-oild Hubbard girl is killed and a Masury boy is injured in separate snowmobile accidents in Brookfield Township on Christmas Day.
Sarah Joy Wasson of Canfield is the first baby born on Christmas Day in a Youngstown hospital, arriving at St. Elizabeth Hospital at 12:37 a.m. All told, there were 10 Christmas babies born in Youngstown.
December 26, 1963: Two person die and seven are injured in an explosion and fire at a Conneaut home that turned a Christmas family reunion into a tragedy. Killed were Ralph Finlaw, 33, who was renting the house, and his uncle, Wilbur Finlaw, 63, of Colebrook.
In Washington, D.C., hundreds of people file past the grave of President John F.. Kennedy to pay their respects on a frigid Christmas Day.
Police are called to two downtown Youngstown theaters, the Paramount and the Warner, to deal with young troublemakers who were scuffling among themselves, shouting and using foul language.
December 26, 1953: The U.S. Navy abandons its search for crew members of a naval weather plane that disappeared over the Philippine Sea Dec. 15. Among the crew was Lt. (j.g.) Fred Troescher of Youngstown.
An avalanche of late Christmas mail arriving from out of town by truck and rail forces Youngstown Postmaster John Doyle to recall about 200 of the temporary workers who had been on duty.
Twenty-three people die and some 200 are injured in a stampede from a church in Toluca, Mexico, at the end of Christmas Mass. The crowd of 3,000 panicked when the lights in the church went out because someone stepped on a wire. Most of the congregation were country folk unaccustomed to electric lighting.
December 26, 1928: Youngstown Municipal Judge Peter Mulholland and the city finance department apparently reach an agreement over the judge's purchase of a $203 court chair, but no one is talking. A hearing in the case is canceled without any warning or word.
A report by a distinguished panel for the Federal Council of Churches of Christ warns that changing attitudes on love and marriage threaten the nation's 27 million homes. Growing divorce rates, the emancipation of women and the "aproning" of husbands as wives work outside the home, and over-stimulation of sexual emotions by movies and the press are among the factors cited as endangering marriage.
A Youngstown woman is in custody after setting fires to two homes, one of which almost brought the death of a man. Police said the woman acted out of revenge after the man with whom she had been living threatened to bring his wife into the home.