Years Ago
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2011. There are four days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1904: James Barrie’s play “Peter Pan: The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” opens at the Duke of York’s Theater in London.
1932: Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City.
1945: Twenty-eight nations sign an agreement creating the World Bank.
1968: Apollo 8 and its three astronauts make a safe, nighttime splashdown in the Pacific.
1979: Soviet forces seize control of Afghanistan. President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown and executed, is replaced by Babrak Karmal.
1985: Palestinian guerrillas open fire inside the Rome and Vienna airports; 19 victims are killed, plus four attackers who are slain by police and security personnel.
2007: Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in Pakistan by an attacker who shoots her after a campaign rally and then blows himself up.
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1986: A 42-year-old Youngstown man is arrested on charges of attempted murder and felonious assault in Greenville, Pa., for the shooting of a 3-year-old boy and his mother.
Niles police confiscate gambling equipment — dice and card tables and poker machines — during raids at 10 sites.
Rachel Hanni, 1-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don L. Hanni III, and granddaughter of Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman Don L. Hanni Jr., is Youngstown’s New Year’s baby.
Conversion of the Pollock mansion across Wick Avenue from Youngstown State University into an inn is slated to begin after approval of financing for the $4.2 million project.
1971: Gary Bryner, president of United Auto Workers Local 1112 at Lordstown, says any problems on the assembly line are being caused by a speed- up ordered by General Motors.
Patricia Garasic, a graduate of Poland Seminary High School, is appointed assistant director in the public relations department of the American Nurses Association in New York City.
Pymatuning State Park Superintendent Ray Azzato announces that there will be no snowmobiling on the ice of Pymatuning Lake.
Mayor Jack C. Hunter says during his swearing-in ceremony for a second term that the state and federal governments have been ignoring the needs of American cities.
1961: Gov. Michael DiSalle names John J. Leskovyansky to a Youngstown Municipal Court judgeship, replacing Forrest J. Cavalier, who was elected to the Common Pleas Court.
Gary Lee and Kathy Mack, seniors at Mathews High School, reign as king and queen at the annual homecoming dance.
1936: Mahoning County Sheriff Ralph Elser sends his deputies out to conduct raids on gambling resorts and to warn operators that slot machines will not be tolerated in taverns and clubs where they have been sprouting up.
Youngstown merchants report shoppers on the first Saturday after Christmas were still imbued with the holiday spirit and eager to spend.