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Today is Sunday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2006. There are 21 days left in the year. On this date in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
In 1896, Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel prizes, dies in San Remo, Italy, at age 63. In 1931, Jane Addams becomes the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (the co-recipient that year was Nicholas Murray Butler). 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. In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. receives his Nobel Peace Prize. In 1986, human rights advocate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts the Nobel Peace Prize.
December 10, 1981: Youngstown City Council approves two pay increases to the salary of Mayor George Vukovich, which will bring his pay to 44,950 in 1982 and 47,950 in 1983.
Slumping sales in rail cars force Midland-Ross Corp. to announce it will close two additional foundries that produce steel casting for the rail industry through the end of the year. One of those foundries is its Sharon, Pa., facility, which employs 600.
Commercial Shearing Inc. agrees to acquire the business assets of two British companies, Lucas Industrial Equipment Ltd. and Keelavie Ltd., which will add about 350 employees to the company's worldwide workforce of 2,000.
December 10, 1966: A mother of nine is sentenced to a year in federal prison for aiding and abetting an attempted holdup of the McGuffey Plaza Branch of the Dollar Savings and Trust Co.
A 43-year-old Wheeling, W. Va., man is charged in Youngstown Municipal Court with larceny by trick in connection with the peddling of nude pictures from a Southern Blvd. storefront. Police said the man sent letters to college students promising nude pictures in exchange for 5, but actually delivered pictures of scantily clad women so as to avoid being charged with distributing obscene material.
A large wooden barn on a farm operated by Russell Barger on Tippecanoe Road near Leffingwell is destroyed by fire. Loss of the barn, machinery and 2,500 bales of hay is estimated at 10,000.
December 10, 1956: Two Youngstown boys, Robert Commins and John Nocera, are looking forward to playing in the Rose Bowl game with their Iowa Hawkeyes, following an 8-1 season and Big Ten championship.
Cardinal Mooney High registers its first basketball victory in history, rolling over Beaver Local of Columbiana County, 56-16. Jim Traficant paced the winners with 26 points.
Secretary of State Ted Brown and a crew of 11 assistants go to work at the Mahoning County Board of Elections, checking ballots in the recount that gave Sheriff Paul J. Langley, Democrat, a 211-vote victory over G. Stanley Kreiler. Election night results had given the Republican a 23-vote victory.
December 10, 1931: Owners of American and National League baseball teams agree to cut the player limit for each team from 25 to 23 in an economy move that will save each team about 10,000.
Congressman John G. Cooper of Youngstown seeks to have a Beaver, Mahoning and Shenango rivers canal project included in the harbors and rivers appropriations bill.
Overnight mail from New York to Youngstown is delayed about five hours when the Youngstown-bound Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train from New York was stopped because of a freight spill near Altoona, Pa.
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