Years Ago

Today is Friday, Dec. 31, the 365th and final day of 2010.

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On this date in:

1775: The British repel an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Quebec. Montgomery is killed.

1879: U.S. inventor Thomas A. Edison gives first demonstration of his electric incandescent light at Menlo Park, New Jersey.

1961: Lebanon’s army prevents a coup attempt in Beirut by the Syrian Popular Party.

The U.S. Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion in foreign aid.

1966: United States says it will halt bombing of North Vietnam when Hanoi gives assurance that it will discuss peace terms seriously.

1974: Private U.S. citizens are allowed to buy and own gold for the first time in more than 40 years.

1978: Taiwanese diplomats strike their colors for the final time from the embassy flagpole in Washington, marking the end of diplomatic relations with the U.S.

1987: Violent protests erupt in Jerusalem’s West Bank as Palestinians prepare to observe the Jan. 1 anniversary of the PLO’s main guerrilla group.

1988: India and Pakistan agree not to attack each others’ nuclear facilities.

1991: Representatives of North Korea and South Korea agree not to use nuclear weapons.

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1985: Consumers in Trumbull County will be paying less when they go to the store as the county’s 0.5 percent sales tax expires, after generating $3.1 million over its seven months of existence.

The Ohio High School Athletic Association rules that Marcel Driver, a 17-year-old Detroit youth who transferred to the Boardman Local School District, is ineligible to play basketball in Boardman.

Youngstown City Council rejects Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro’s request for pay raises for Finance Director Gary Kubic, from $34,787 to $45,000, and for Law Director Edwin Romero, from $45,000 to $50,000.

1970: Thomas J. Carney Jr., a Boardman trustee, is elected president of the Mahoning Valley Mass Transit Authority, succeeding J. Phillip Richley, Ohio’s new director of highways.

Mayor Jack C. Hunter proposes that city residents be able to pay their water bills at bank branches throughout the city.

The statue of the Christ child and the manger have been stolen from Central Square, Youngstown Park Superintendent Edward Finamore reports.

1960: Donald Lloyd Bostweick, 44, of 2706 Bears Den Road, an architect and engineer who designed more than 18 district buildings and was a director of the Architects Society of Ohio, dies in Northside Hospital.

Mahoning County’s two Democratic commissioners say they will elect Republican Edward Gilronan chairman of the board for 1961.

Blair Associates of Providence, R.I., is hired by Youngstown City Council for $26,000 to prepare a development plan for McGuffey Heights, one of the improvement projects included in a $6.5 million urban renewal bond issue.

A hooded gunman binds and gags four people and escapes with $7,000 from the Kroger food store safe at the Mahoning Plaza.

1935: Walter F. Buehrle, Mill Creek Park policeman, and five others are credited with saving six people from the icy waters of Lake Glacier. Saved were Mabel Poghen, 31, and her children, Evangeline, 14, and James, 9, and Cyril Ackerman, 16, Paul Lanterman, 13, and Robert Diamond, 18.

Mayor-elect Lionel Evan tells his cabinet during a meeting at the Youngstown Club that 63 city jobs will be eliminated.

The New Year will begin with Youngstown district mills operating at 62 percent with the resumption of two open hearths at the Warren plant of Republic Steel Corp.