Today is Wednesday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 2005. There are 10 days left in the year. Winter arrives at 1:35 p.m. Eastern time. On this date in 1620, Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower go ashore for the
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 2005. There are 10 days left in the year. Winter arrives at 1:35 p.m. Eastern time. On this date in 1620, Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower go ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Mass.
In 1914, the first feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance," is released. In 1942, the Supreme Court rules all states have to recognize divorces granted in Nevada. In 1945, Gen. George S. Patton dies in Heidelberg, Germany, of injuries from a car accident. In 1948, the state of Eire (formerly the Irish Free State) declares its independence. In 1968, Apollo 8 is launched on a mission to orbit the moon. In 1971, the U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim to succeed U Thant as Secretary-General. In 1978, police in Des Plaines, Ill., arrest John W. Gacy Jr. and begin unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy is later convicted of murdering. In 1988, 270 people are killed when a terrorist bomb explodes aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the ground.
December 21, 1980: Authorities say the 10 persons who died of smoke inhalation during early-morning fires in Youngstown over a period of four days could have escaped injury had their homes been equipped with smoke detectors.
State Sen. Harry Meshel says he will work to overturn Gov. James A. Rhodes' veto of a high-speed rail test track in Northeast Ohio.
It's still up in the air whether Ohio will lose two or three seats in the U.S. House of Representatives based on the most recent national population estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau.
December 21, 1965: Herman J. Spoerer of Canfield, widely known civic leader and steel executive, will retire as vice president-industrial relations of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., wrapping up a 48-year career with the company.
A 24-year-old ex-convict and a suspect in illegal drug traffic is arrested on an open charge after Youngstown Intelligence & amp; Security Squad officers and federal narcotic agents find a cache of alleged narcotics in his North Side hotel room.
A federal food stamp plan will be extended to welfare recipients in Mahoning and Trumbull counties, federal authorities say. It will take a few months to get the program into operation.
December 21, 1955: The Ford Foundation will sell 10.2 million shares of Ford Motor Co. stock in the largest equity stock issue in history. The company announces its earnings for the first nine months of 1955 were $312 million and the company has amassed a surplus of capital and earnings totaling $1.8 billion.
Telephone service has been discontinued at 6 of 11 known gambling spots named in The Vindicator as doing an estimated $3 million annual lottery business.
Youngstown officials push a dying fireman to retire from his job so that a new man could be appointed to his job before the Civil Service eligibility list expires Dec. 23. Patrick Casey, 60, signed the papers from his bed in St. Elizabeth Hospital, where he is being treated for cancer. Joseph Falcony, who was at the top of the old eligibility list but far down the new list, was appointed to Casey's job.
December 21, 1930: About 28,000 automobiles in Mahoning County will be without new license tags and will cease operating Jan. 1, W. H. Loller, deputy state automobile registrar, estimates. Only 13,000 1931 licenses have been issued.
Five masked men enter the Jim Munsene house on Pine St., Warren, line up 100 visitors, search them and depart with a sum reputed to be in excess of $3,000.
Though bleeding from a gun-battered head and dodging a deluge of bullets, Nick Rimedio, meat dealer at 2010 W. Federal St., uses a huge cheese knife to sever the ear of one of two gunmen who tried to rob his shop. The robbers fled empty-handed. A police check of area hospitals did not turn up the injured men.