Today is Saturday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2005. There are 21 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2005. There are 21 days left in the year. On this date in 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize during ceremonies in Oslo, Norway.
In 1869, women are granted the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory. In 1898, a treaty is signed in Paris officially ending the Spanish-American War. In 1931, Jane Addams becomes a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honored. In 1948, the U.N. General Assembly adopts its Universal Declaration on Human Rights. In 1950, Ralph J. Bunche is presented the Nobel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive the award. In 1958, the first domestic passenger jet flight takes place in the U.S. as a National Airlines Boeing 707 flies 111 passengers from New York to Miami in about 21/2 hours.
December 10, 1980: The Metropolitan Savings & amp; Loan Co. purchases the Central Tower Building for $650,000 at a sheriff's sale The appraised value of the property, which will be known as Metropolitan Tower, was $825,000.
Liberty Township trustees reject the Little Squaw Creek Development Co.'s proposal to develop nearly 30 acres fronting Church Hill Road into offices and apartments. The company says it may revive efforts to annex the land to Girard.
State Sen. Harry Meshel of Youngstown convenes Ohio Senate Democrats at a meeting at Mohican State Park to discuss their response to Gov. James A. Rhodes' plan to eliminate an estimated $400 million budget deficit in 1981.
December 10, 1965: Sharon City Council adopts a $1.6 million budget for 1966, which includes a 5 percent pay raise for city employees.
Youngstown Auxiliary Bishop James W. Malone is returning from Rome and will report to priests of the diocese on the Vatican Council II sectional meetings he attended.
A spectacular meteor over Lake Erie causes some alarm among those who saw objects in the sky. Police report receiving a number of calls from worried spectators.
December 10, 1955: Three boys guilty of releasing the box cars that killed a Youngstown couple in July are sentenced to the Boys Industrial School, but are released on probation by Judge Henry P. Beckenback. The boys, two of them aged 11 and one 13, are warned that at the first bad report they will be sent to detention. A fourth boy was exonerated by the other three.
A 17-year-old Detroit youth who was clocked driving 105 mph on the Ohio Turnpike is fined $25. The boy's mother and father were asleep in the backseat and said they were unaware of how fast their son was driving.
Judge Herman M. Rodgers orders picketing activities restricted at the strikebound Sharon Works of Westinghouse Electric Corp.
December 10, 1930: Youngstown Police Chief Paul Lyden says that as long as bootlegging is going on in the city he will not cut the size of the department's vice crews.
The Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co. of Cleveland announces that because of the general business conditions, negotiations aimed at a merger with the Newton Steel Co. of Youngstown have been suspended.