Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2011. 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.

1861: The Confederacy admits Kentucky as it recognizes a pro-Southern shadow state government that is acting without the authority of the pro-Union government in Frankfort.

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.

1911: TV newscaster Chet Huntley is born in Cardwell, Mont.

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.

1967: Singer Otis Redding, 26, and six others are killed when their plane crashes into Wisconsin’s Lake Monona.

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

1986: Human rights advocate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts the Nobel Peace Prize.

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1986: Trumbull County commissioners and fair board members will meet to consider a proposal from area investors hoping to start a new auto racing program at the Expo Center.

The Limited DeBartolo Group abruptly withdraws its tender offer for Carter Hawley Hale Stores Inc. after the California company rejects a sweetened offer and announces it is spinning off its specialty store business into a publicly owned company.

The Kraynak Nursery & Garden Center on E. State Street in Hermitage, which started out as a family run nursery, has grown into one of the major tourist spots in Mercer County as it has become known far and wide for its Christmas and Easter displays.

Two first team repeaters, running back Brad Smith of Boardman and linebacker Don Jones of Austintown Fitch, head the 1986 All Steel Valley Conference football team announced by Commissioner Al Meyer.

1971: Mayor Jack C. Hunter says he will reject a salary increase of more than $4,000 approved by City Council. He says he ran for a job paying $20,000 a year, and that is what he’ll take.

Frank A. Nemec, chairman of the board and CEO of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., is elected a trustee of the Youngstown Hospital Association.

Doug Shasby, general campaign chairman of the United Appeal campaign, tells the Community Chest’s executive board that he expects to reach the $1.6 million goal when final returns are in.

1961: A.S. Glossbrenner, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., looks for a pickup in steel buying providing a relatively good first half year of 1962.

Mayor Frank R. Franko vetoes legislation granting Linde Air Co. permission to install lines under Poland Avenue to provide liquid oxygen to the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s open hearths.

Youngstown University, Christ Mission kindergarten, St. Elizabeth Hospital and the YMCA and YWCA will share equally in the estate of Alonzo G. Sharp, founder of A.G. Sharp Lumber, which is estimated at $2 million.

Mayor-elect Harry Savasten announces the appointment of Russell G. Mock as city law director and Philip A. Levy as finance director.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown is named co-chairman of the first “President Kennedy’s inaugural anniversary dinner” to be held Jan. 20 in Washington, D.C.

1936: Bill Edwards, coach of the Western Reserve College football team, unbeaten for two years, tells the Youngstown Rotary Club luncheon at the Hotel Ohio that football is a thinking man’s game and the “‘dumb football player’ tab cannot be affixed to the high school or college youth.”

One of the best choirs of Europe, the Budapest University Glee Club, will perform at Stambaugh Auditorium in January under the auspices of the Grand Committee of the Hungarian Churches and Societies of Youngstown.