This Day in History

Today is Thursday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2010. There are 29 days left in the year.

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1823: President James Monroe outlines his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.

1859: Militant abolitionist John Brown is hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry the previous October.

1927: Ford Motor Co. formally unveils its second Model A automobile, the successor to its Model T.

1942: An artificially created, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is demonstrated for the first time, at the University of Chicago.

1954: The Senate votes to condemn Wisconsin Republican Joseph R. McCarthy for conduct that “tends to bring the Senate into disrepute.”

1969: The Boeing 747 jumbo jet gets its first public preview as 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, fly from Seattle to New York City.

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1985: The impending sale of the long-unused LTV Corp. property between Market Street and South Avenue downtown gives new life to an old idea: a dog-racing track.

About 75 production workers strike the Borden Dairy and Services Inc. plant on Market Street.

A windstorm with gusts to 58 mph sweeps through the Youngstown area, knocking down trees and scattering debris.

1970: The Union National Bank opens a new Canfield branch office at 34 N. Broad St.

James M. Dawson, vice president and economist of National City Bank of Cleveland, tells an Early Bird Breakfast of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce that business is likely to improve in 1971.

A 16-year-old Griffith Street youth is committed permanently to the Ohio Youth Commission in Columbus after pleading guilty to unarmed robbery and assault on a Vindicator sports stringer after a football game.

1960: A jump in Mahoning County’s population from 299,175 to 300,450 will mean substantial pay raises for most county officials, whose salaries are tied to the county’s size. Commissioners will see their pay jump from $8,150 to $9,400, while the prosecutor will go from $10,500 to $11,500.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan marks his 74th birthday at lunch with friends in downtown Youngstown.

Bessemer Limestone & Cement Co. is honored for completing more than a million man hours of accident free work at its quarries and plants.

1935:Republic Steel Corp. announces that its universal plate mill in Youngstown has been converted to electric drive at a cost of $285,000.

George J. Renner Jr., who founded the Renner Brewery 50 years ago, dies at his home at Park and Michigan avenues after a long illness.

Dale Cox, Cleveland Plain Dealer writer, disputes dreary predictions of Fortune magazine regarding the future of steel in the Mahoning Valley, declaring the Valley will be making steel for generations to come.