Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Dec. 1, the 335th day of 2013. There are 30 days left in the year.

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1824: The presidential election is turned over to the U.S. House of Representatives when a deadlock develops between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay. (Adams ends up the winner.)

1860: The Charles Dickens novel “Great Expectations” is first published in weekly serial form.

1913: The first drive-in automobile service station, built by Gulf Refining Co., opens in Pittsburgh.

1941: Japanese Emperor Hirohito approves waging war against the United States, Britain and the Netherlands.

1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin conclude their Tehran conference.

1955: Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus. Mrs. Parks is arrested, sparking a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks.

1958: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Flower Drum Song” opens on Broadway.

1969: The U.S. government has its first draft lottery since World War II.

1973: David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, dies in Tel Aviv at age 87.

1989: In an extraordinary encounter, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev meets with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.

1992: In Mineola, N.Y., Amy Fisher is sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison for shooting and seriously wounding Mary Jo Buttafuoco. (Fisher serves seven years.)

2000:Vicente Fox is sworn in as president of Mexico, ending 71 years of ruling-party domination.

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1988: Youngstown Councilman Charles P. Sammarone, D-5th, agrees to meet with representatives of the Mahoning Valley Landlords Association to discuss their call for a delay in the city’s implementation of a landlord-registration ordinance.

Mahoning County commissioners are considering creating a convention authority that would increase the bed tax on motels from 3 percent to 7 percent.

Some Boardman residents in the 700 block of Indianola Road are upset by a well drilled behind their homes by Everflow Eastern Inc., which put together a tract of 40 acres required for a well.

1973: Youngstown area legislators will meet with Gov. John J. Gilligan to learn why funds appropriated to begin two new medical schools are being withheld by the Ohio Board of Regents.

Salem City Council and the Chamber of Commerce are bombarded with telephone calls after city officials and civic leaders decide to turn off Christmas lighting because of the energy crisis.

Market Street Ext. just south of the Ohio Turnpike looks like a parking lot as tractor-trailers line up waiting for diesel fuel to be delivered after the last of five truck stops in the area runs out of fuel.

1963: Responding with a record outpouring of generosity, 3,000 patrons who packed Stambaugh Auditorium turn in $64,960 at Esther Hamilton’s 33rd annual Alias Santa Claus Club show. Edward J. DeBartolo Sr. was the night’s top “candy butcher,” raising $7,100.

At least one Trumbull County commissioner, Joseph Baldine, is giving up a drive to have the county’s 57-year-old courthouse razed and a new courthouse constructed. Commissioner Robert E. Hagan may follow Baldine’s example. Roy Stillwagon never favored the idea.

A spry Colorado farmer who is celebrating his 103rd birthday, Fred W. Brushner, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, four years before President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

1938: Speaking at the annual dinner meeting of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, Alexander Kerensky, prime minister of the first Russian Republic after the fall of the czar, said German imperialists supported the Bolsheviks over democrats in Russia because they feared a free Russia more than they feared a Bolshevik Russia.

Youngstown City Council votes unanimously to sell $350,000 in bonds to finance the city’s share of a $1.2 million airport in Vienna Township, Trumbull County.

Fred L. Roose, district director of the WPA in Akron, says the Works Progress Administration spent nearly $15 million in Mahoning County over three years, with local government contributing about $2 million.