Years Ago

Today is Friday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2010. There are 21 days left in the year.

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1520: Martin Luther publicly burns the papal edict demanding that he recant, or face excommunication.

1884: Mark Twain’s novel “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is first published, in Canada as well as England (however, the book is not released in the United States until February 1885).

1906: President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.

1910: The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the population of the United States stands at 91,972,266.

The opera “La fanciulla del West” (The Girl of the Golden West), by Giacomo Puccini, has its world premiere at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.

1931: Jane Addams becomes the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (the co-recipient is Nicholas Murray Butler).

1950: Ralph J. Bunche is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive the award.

1964: Martin Luther King Jr. receives his Nobel Peace Prize.

1984: South African Bishop Desmond Tutu receives the Nobel Peace Prize.

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1985: The Mahoning County Board of Elections is sorting through ballots that were rejected election night in the Boardman Township trustee elections and find that about 40 percent of the first 400 ballots they examined showed marks for four candidates, while voters were permitted to vote for a maximum of three.

LTV Steel Co. announces a “survival plan” to cut costs and increase sales in an effort to keep the company’s Warren plant open.

1970: A bomb damages the home of builder Irving Lev on Goleta Avenue. Police believe the bombing may be linked to the burning of a home Lev was building for a Negro family in Liberty Township.

The large Baltimore & Ohio Railroad roundhouse off Edgewood Street on Youngstown’s East Side is destroyed by a fire that broke out shortly after 3,000 district railroad workers join a nationwide walkout. Damage is estimated at $100,000.

1960: Burglars ransack the offices of two South Side insurance companies and a South Side car dealer, smashing open two safes and escaping with more than $600.

Fire causes nearly $25,000 in damage to the Kelly-Ward-Varley post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at 2225 Glenwood Ave.

1935: Youngstown and Warren leaders unite behind a Vienna Township site for a proposed huge regional airport that would have facilities for landing planes carrying 40 or 60 passengers.

County Prosecutor J.H. Leighninger warns workers in the Courthouse that if they are going to play the bug, they better buy their numbers outside the building.