YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Dec. 6, the 340th day of 2014. There are 25 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1790: Congress moves to Philadelphia from New York.

1884: Army engineers complete construction of the Washington Monument

1897: The worst mining disaster in U.S. history occurs as 362 men and boys die in a coal mine explosion in Monongah, W. Va.

1947: President Harry S. Truman dedicates Everglades National Park in Florida .

1957: America’s first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit fails as Vanguard TV3 rises about 4 feet off a Cape Canaveral launch pad before crashing down and exploding.

1964: The animated puppet special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” first airs on NBC-TV.

1989: Fourteen women are shot to death at the University of Montreal’s school of engineering by a man who then took his own life.

2004: Ohio certifies President George W. Bush’s 119,000-vote victory over Democratic nominee John Kerry, even as the Kerry campaign and third-party candidates prepare to demand a statewide recount.

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1989: The Greater New Castle Ministerial Fellowship announces its opposition to a proposed off-track betting parlor to be operated in the Westgate Plaza by Ladbroke Racing.

The Packard Electric Division of General Motors announces its second new joint venture in a week, a partnership with Carthew and Travaglini LTD to build a plant in Australia.

A day after the Youngstown Board of Education upheld the expulsion of a 15-year-old East High ninth-grader for carrying a gun, juvenile court authorities are saying armed high schoolers may be a bigger problem than realized.

1974: Teachers of the Jackson-Milton school system set up picket lines at the high school after an impasse in negotiations between the Jackson-Milton Education Association and the Board of Education.

Youngstown officials are stunned by bids for rehabilitation of the Lake Milton dam that came in at $728,000, more than 60 percent more than the estimate.

Advertisement: Appearing at Cherry’s “Top of the Mall” for one night only, comedian Rodney Dangerfield, direct from the “Johnny Carson Show.”

1964: Esther Hamilton’s “candy butchers” raise $63,805 for needy families at her annual charity benefit show, “Alias Santa Claus.” Edward J. DeBartolo was the top “butcher,” followed by J. Ross Philips, Marvin Itts and Walter Paulo.

Warren officials get the go-ahead from Urban Renewal Commissioner William L. Slayton for a multimillion- dollar revitalization of downtown.

1939: The estate of Henry Stambaugh, estimated at $1 million, is left in trust to his widow with a provision that at her death it will be divided in three parts, with one of those parts going to the Stambaugh Auditorium Association.

Raymond Moley, a former New Deal brain-truster for the Roosevelt administration and now a bitter foe of it, tells the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce annual meeting it calls for a turn from the socialized state and a firm stand against entering the European war.

The Federal Communications Commission grants a permit to increase the night power of WFMJ Radio from 100 to 250 watts.