Years Ago

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2013. There are 21 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1520: Martin Luther publicly burns the papal edict demanding that he recant, or face excommunication.

1817: Mississippi is admitted as the 20th state of the Union.

1861: The Confederacy admits Kentucky as it recognizes a pro-Southern shadow state government that was acting without the authority of the pro-Union government in Frankfort.

1906: President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping mediate an end to the Russo- Japanese War.

1931: Jane Addams becomes the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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1988: The Girard Board of Education hires Anthony D’ Ambrosio as the district’s new superintendent at an annual salary of $48,000.

The Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown celebrate the 25th anniversary of their motherhouse on Shields Road.

Labor-management cooperation, which helped RMI Co. survive the double-whammy of depressed titanium sales and intense foreign competition, should help it prosper in the growing market, company and union officials say.

1973: A fire started in the Youngstown City Jail by a prisoner sends the prisoner and Patrolman Bruno Wajszczuk to St. Elizabeth Hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation.

Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice C. William O’Neill announces a strict new code of judicial conduct that bars political flower funds and kickbacks.

Two armed men wearing ski masks steal the proceeds from a Sts. Peter & Paul Church bingo game in Struthers as two bingo workers were attempting to deposit the money at a Dollar Savings & Trust Co. branch.

1963: The U.S. Senate passes a public works appropriation bill that includes $3.7 million for the West Branch Reservoir.

Six more Youngstown area gamblers are jailed for contempt of court after refusing to testify before a Mahoning County grand jury.

1938: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Henry P. Beckenbach issues a temporary restraining order barring the city from proceeding with construction of a swimming pool at Tod Lane and Belmont Avenue. Some residents filed suit claiming the pool would create a traffic hazard.

The Rt. Rev. Beverly Tucker, bishop of the Ohio Diocese of the Episcopal Church, visits Youngstown and officiates at confirmations at St. Johns, St. James and St. Andrew Episcopal churches.

Dick Stabile and his Orchestra are playing at the Nu-Elm Ballroom, coming to Youngstown directly from Chicago’s swank Edgewater Beach Hotel.