Years Ago

Today is Monday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2013. There are 29 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1804: Napoleon crowns himself emperor of the French.

1823: President James Monroe outlines his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.

1859: Militant abolitionist John Brown is hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry the previous October.

Artist Georges-Pierre Seurat is born in Paris.

1927: Ford Motor Co. formally unveils its second Model A automobile, the successor to its Model T.

1939: New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field (later LaGuardia Airport) goes into operation as an airliner from Chicago lands at one minute past midnight.

1942: An artificially created, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is demonstrated for the first time, at the University of Chicago.

1954: The Senate votes to condemn Wisconsin Republican Joseph R. McCarthy for conduct that “tends to bring the Senate into disrepute.”

1961: Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares himself a Marxist-Leninist who would eventually lead Cuba to Communism.

1969: The Boeing 747 jumbo jet gets its first public preview as 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, fly from Seattle to New York City.

1970: The Environmental Protection Agency begins operating under director William Ruckelshaus.

1980: Four American churchwomen are raped and murdered outside San Salvador. (Five national guardsmen are convicted in the killings.)

2001: In one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in U.S. history, Enron files for Chapter 11 protection.

2003: The Supreme Court rules unanimously that after knocking, police don’t have to wait longer than 20 seconds before breaking into the home of a drug suspect.

Authorities in Ohio announce that they have linked 12 shootings along a 5-mile stretch of interstate around Columbus, including one that killed a woman and another that broke a window at an elementary school. (A suspect, Charles A. McCoy Jr., later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and 10 other charges, and was sentenced to 27 years in prison.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1988: A group of 175 landowners in Columbiana County says a 380-mile pipeline from Defiance, Ohio, to Clinton County, Pa., that they opposed has been abandoned by ANR Pipeline Co.

The city of Warren buys 14 acres on the south side of South Street at Pine Avenue as the site of a proposed $1 million operations complex.

Boardman High’s Dough Velasquez, Warren Harding’s Clayton Waite and Warren Western Reserve’s Marcus Butler are named to the Associated Press Division I All-Ohio High School football squad.

1973: Religious organizations in the area present the 20th annual “Keep Christ in Christmas” on Federal Street in downtown Youngstown. The 100-voice choir of St. Dominic School, directed by Sister Celeste, sings “Go Tell it on the Mountain” and other selections.

Several Youngstown area residents are subpoenaed to testify before a special Crawford County, Pa., grand jury to hear possible obstruction of justice in the unsolved murder of Phillip Earl Cownden, 31, of Youngstown, whose body was found in French Creek near Meadville.

Bruce Zoldan, 25, of Boardman earns the gratitude of the family of Sen. Ted Kennedy for a trick mechanical toy sent to Edward M. Kennedy Jr., whose leg was amputated Nov. 17. The boy has enjoyed tricking visitors with the toy, which flies open to reveal a “mongoose.”

1963: One man is killed and five others are injured when a boiler explodes in the Julian Bakery at 123 N. Hine St., causing $200,000 in damage. Alfonso Sorriento, 39, a baker, is pronounced dead at St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Atty. Anthony T. Kryzan, 57, government, church and civic leader, dies at his home.

The Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce releases a report showing nine areas in which the city of Youngstown could save money, including consolidation of transportation services and centralized purchasing..

1938: John Black Jr., 6, of Sharon drowns after falling through thin ice on the Shenango River at a spot near the water works where a local Gospel Mission baptizes converts during winter months.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube adds an open hearth at Brier Hill, bringing 57 of the Mahoning Valley’s 83 open hearths into operation, the highest level of production in 1938.

Legislation will be presented to Youngstown City Council to authorize the purchase of six acres of land at Belmont Avenue and Tod Lane as the site for a new city swimming pool.