Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Dec. 15, the 349th day of 2011. There are 16 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1890: Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members are killed in Grand River, S.D., in a confrontation with Indian police.

1944: A single-engine plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller, a major in the U.S. Army Air Forces, to Paris disappears over the English Channel.

1961: Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death by an Israeli court for crimes against humanity. (Eichmann is hanged 51/2 months later.)

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1986: Ravenna Arsenal Inc., a subsidiary of the Olin Corp., is proposing reactivation of a portion of the Army’s Ravenna Arsenal for production of a 120mm mortar system.

Quarterback Bernie Kosar leads the Cleveland Browns to a 34-3 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals at Riverfront Stadium to win the AFC Championship.

1971: About 3,700 workers on the assembly line at the General Motors Complex in Lordstown are sent home after four hours of work on the grounds that work assignments were not be properly performed.

R.J. Wean Jr., president and CEO of Wean United Inc., announces that Wean United will become an operating company rather than holding company with all executive staff headquartered in Pittsburgh.

1961: Greyhound Lines will drop its interurban service to concentrate on over-the-road business, leaving service between Niles, Warren, McDonald, Canfield and Austintown to the Youngstown Transit Co.

An announcement that steel operations in the Mahoning Valley will increase by seven points means the recall of hundreds of area workers the week before Christmas.

1936: Mrs. Joseph L. Smith of 1419 Sheehy St. is notified that she has won $5,000 in government bonds in a contest to name Amos’ and Ruby’s baby on the Amos ‘n’ Andy radio show. Her winning entry: Arbadella.

The Ohio Leather Co. orders the distribution of a week’s pay to about 800 employees of the Ohio Leather Co. in Girard.