Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Dec. 29, the 363rd day of 2011. There are two days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1851: The first Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in the United States is founded in Boston.

1890: The Wounded Knee massacre takes place in South Dakota as an estimated 300 Sioux Indians are killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.

1911: Sun Yat-sen is elected provisional president of the Republic of China.

1940: During World War II, Germany drops incendiary bombs on London, setting off what came to be known as “The Second Great Fire of London.”

1975: A bomb explodes in the main terminal of New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people.

2001: A fire in Lima, Peru, kills at least 290 people.

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1986: The Ohio Department of Highway Safety announces that 123 criminal charges are filed against 17 used car dealers for odometer fraud, including three in Trumbull County.

Three seventh graders at Boardman Glenwood Middle School, Wayne Bouni, Ed Gray and Aaron Boyarko, capture top honors in a robot olympics competition at Buhl Science Center in Pittsburgh.

1971: Mayor Jack C. Hunter submits a budget to city council calling for $24.5 million in expenditures and a projected deficit of $674,904 in the general fund.

Superior Chemical Products Co., 30 N. Watt St., purchases the old Keystone Transportation Co. property at 220 Hubbard Road for $115,000.

1961: A 14-room vacant home owned by Mario Guerrieri, owner of Acme Bonding Agency, is set ablaze with gasoline. Damage is estimated at $10,000.

Bone-chilling air from the arctic brings the Youngstown area its first taste of sub-zero weather, with the mercury dipping to -12 at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.

1936: The United States Post Office in Washington, D.C., announces that Atty. Carl Armstrong is Youngstown’s acting postmaster.

While a few slot machine operators have put away their “mechanical thieves” following Sheriff Ralph Elser’s warning, most that were installed in the city and county over the holidays are still running, with players gathered round them two and three deep.

Frank A. Hoiles, 70, publisher of the Alliance Review, is killed instantly in a two-car collision at Goshen Center Road and state Route 45.