Sunday, December 27, 2009
Today is Sunday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2009. There are four days left in the year. On this date in 1968, Apollo 8 and its three astronauts make a safe, nighttime splashdown in the Pacific.
In 1831, naturalist Charles Darwin sets out on a round-the-world voyage aboard the HMS Beagle. In 1904, James Barrie’s play “Peter Pan: The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” opens at the Duke of York’s Theater in London. In 1927, the musical “Show Boat,” with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opens at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York. In 1932, Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City. In 1945, 28 nations sign an agreement creating the World Bank. In 1959, the Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants 31-16 to win the NFL championship. In 1985, Palestinian guerrillas open fire inside the Rome and Vienna airports; a total of 20 people are killed, including four of the attackers, who are slain by police and security personnel. In 2007, opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in Pakistan by an attacker who shoots her after a campaign rally and then blows himself up.
December 27, 1984: Mahoning County commissioners vote to approve a 1985 general fund budget of a record $20.5 million.
Three men apprehended by Brookfield police following a car chase are believed to have been responsible for as many as 100 car thefts in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania over two months.
The Trumbull County Budget Commissioner certifies income of $12.4 million for the 1985 general fund, down slightly from a year earlier.
December 27, 1969: Faulty timers on vaults at Home Savings & Loan Co. that failed to open the morning after Christmas have been repaired. Tellers were left without cash until an emergency money supply arrived from the Union National Bank. The vaults opened about noon.
Two men claiming to be armed subdue six employees and four customers at a Cleveland suburban branch of the Broadview Savings & Loan Co. and escape with $7,177.
Ed Moore, who was an All-City choice when he played at Cardinal Money High School, will be playing in the Rose Bowl when his University of Michigan Wolverines face Southern California.
December 27, 1959: Two new ideas in iron and steel making, using streams of natural gas in blast furnaces and shooting streams of natural gas and oxygen into electric furnaces, are being studied by Youngstown district steel executives.
James P. Griffin, District 26 director of the United Steelworkers of America, sees little hope for success when bargaining sessions open in Washington, D.C.
The great need for discipline taught by the U.S. service academies is emphasized by U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan in a talk to district cadets at the sixth annual luncheon at the Colonial House in Youngstown.
December 27, 1934: Ray Noble, former Mahoning County Relief director, returns from assignment as director of 17 counties to temporarily assume command in Youngstown in the absence of George Brooks, who is on a leave of absence.
The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra is planning a series of four concerts at Stambaugh Auditorium beginning Feb. 3.
Mahoning County commissioners advertise for bids for a new bridge over the Mahoning River at Struthers, which is expected to cost $48,000.