Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 14, the 348th day of 2010. There are 17 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1799: The first president of the United States, George Washington, dies at his Mount Vernon, Va., home at age 67.

1910: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is created in Washington, D.C. as industrialist Andrew Carnegie presents a gift of $10 million for its founding.

1939: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.

1981: Israel annexes the Golan Heights, which it had seized from Syria in 1967.

1985: Former New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris, who’d hit 61 home runs in the 1961 season, dies in Houston at age 51.

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1985: The 7th District Court of Appeals reverses Struthers Municipal Court Judge Robert Kalafut’s ruling that the statute under which two men were charged with smuggling beer into Ohio from Pennsylvania was unconstitutional.

A Lawrence County man accused of holding three people hostage for 1 Ω hours in the New Castle office of U.S. Rep. Joseph Kolter, D-Pa., has refused to eat or drink during the four days since his arrest.

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1970: Thomas Baird, 15, a Boardman High School freshman found beaten Dec. 3 on Lake Park Road, dies in South Side Hospital.

Hundreds of Ursuline High School students make good on their pledge to “Walk Miles for the Poor,” covering a 20-mile route through the city and raising $3,000 in pledges.

1960: The Boardman Branch of the Public Library is closed indefinitely in the aftermath of damage by vandals estimated at $10,000.

Anthony Vivo says when he takes office Jan. 1 as Mahoning County clerk of courts he will keep all of the incumbent 38 employees and hopes to add to the staff, which he believes is undermanned.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, D-Youngstown, who was an early supporter of John F. Kennedy meets with the president-elect to discuss, among other things, the possibility of serving as secretary of labor.

Atty. John H. Oesch, former Fifth Ward city councilman, is elected president of the Organization of Protestant Men.

1935: Five liquor raiders, headed by Robert Seward, dapper chief of District No. 11, destroys a 1,000-gallon rye whisky still cleverly hidden in a cave five miles south of Burghill. Two men are arrested and 2,000 gallons of moonshine are confiscated.

“Good Samaritan” safecrackers fail to open a safe at the Shell Petroleum Co. on Worthington Street, but are kind enough to leave a note warning that the safe was already packed with “soup,” meaning nitroglycerine. An expert is brought in from Canton to neutralize the explosives.