Today is Tuesday, Dec. 6, the 340th day of 2005. There are 25 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 6, the 340th day of 2005. 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 1790, Congress moves from New York to Philadelphia. 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 1969, a concert by The Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, Calif., is marred by the deaths of four people, including one who is stabbed by a member of the Hell's Angels.
December 6, 1980: Youngstown could lose half the $2.7 million in federal funds it receives to operate the WRTA, its public transportation system, under a new funding formula approved by the House of Representatives.
Youngstown firemen rescue a 77-year-old widow from her barricaded second floor bedroom after a burglar broke into her home at 23 N. Belle Vista Ave and looted it before touching off a fire to hide the burglary.
William G. Lyden Jr., president of the Lyden Oil Co., is honored as Man of the Year by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Educational Foundation.
December 6, 1965: Three Mahoning County jail prisoners surrender and return to their cells within minutes after an attempted jailbreak. One of the men is wounded in the leg during a struggle between another prisoner and a deputy over the deputy's gun.
About 200 people attend a conference on race and poverty at Cardinal Mooney High School. Thomas Gee, deputy executive secretary to Sargent Shriver, head of the Office of Economic Opportunity, says the poor have a hard time finding adequate, safe and sanitary housing, and racial minorities who can afford to move to better neighborhoods are frozen out by racial discrimination.
Mary Kincaid, 33, of Hubbard, en route home from Gambier with her prize-winning Doberman pinscher, is killed instantly on Interstate 71 in Medina County in a head-on collision with a wrong-way driver. Her dog, Rex, was also killed in the crash.
December 6, 1955: Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan asks City Council to increase the city's income tax by not more than 5 mills to finance the city's 1956 budget of $10 million. The budget includes a 10 percent pay increase for city employees.
Henry A. Roemer Jr. resigns as president and a member of the board of directors of Sharon Steel Corp. His father, Henry A. Roemer, will assume the presidency and continue as chairman of the board.
Directors of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District caution Youngstown and Niles that only a limited supply of water is available to the two cities. The statement was prompted by a protest by the Ohio Water Service Co. against Niles' plan to sell water to Girard.
December 6, 1930: Mahoning County Sheriff Adam Stone withdraws his raiding deputies from Youngstown, turning over to the city police department the job of conducting raids on the city's bootleggers.
Warren F. Perry, secretary of the Mahoning Valley Industrial Council, will maintain his home in Youngstown, at least for the present, after assuming his duties as executive secretary of the Ohio Manufacturers Association.
Burglars batter their way into the Erie Railroad freight and passenger depot in Cortland and take $18 in cash and a case of steel wool. Trumbull deputies say the methods used to crack the safe are the same as those used by a burglary gang in Warren.