Sunday, December 28, 2014
Today is Sunday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2014. There are three days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1612: Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observes the planet Neptune, but mistakes it for a star. (Neptune wasn’t officially discovered until 1846.)
1832: John C. Calhoun becomes the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down because of differences with President Andrew Jackson.
1856: The 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, is born in Staunton, Va.
1917: The New York Evening Mail publishes “A Neglected Anniversary,” a facetious essay by H.L. Mencken supposedly recounting the history of bathtubs in America.
1945: Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance.
1961: The Tennessee Williams play “Night of the Iguana” opens on Broadway.
Former first lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson, dies in Washington at age 89.
1984: The TV soap opera “The Edge of Night,” which first aired on CBS, then on ABC, ends a 28-year run with its final episode.
Movie director Sam Peckinpah, 59, dies in Inglewood, Calif.
1999: Clayton Moore, television’s “Lone Ranger, dies in West Hills, Calif., at 85.
VINDICATOR FILES
1989: Augmitto Explorations Ltd. completes an agreement to sell 75 percent of its Canadian gold mine for $2.5 million to settle its debts. The company has several hundred Mahoning Valley shareholders.
Certificate of deposit interest rates at Mahoning Valley banks range from 5.25 percent for a 28-day certificate at Farmers National Bank to 8.13 percent for a 60-month certificate at Western Reserve Bank.
1974: More than half of the Youngstown Hospital Association’s 1,800 non-nursing employees are notified that they will be laid off due to a continuing strike by nurses.
Midland, Pa., Patrolman James DiTullio, 27, is shot in the chest following an altercation at a high school basketball game. He is hospitalized in fair condition, and his 19-year-old accused assailant is in custody
Youngstown Police Chief Donald G. Baker escapes injury when the unmarked cruiser he was driving slammed into an illegally parked semi-tractor trailer at 848 Marshall St. Damage to the three-month old cruiser was estimated at $600.
1964: The 110-member Alliance High School Band leaves for Miami, Fla., to march in the Orange Bowl parade.
Cleveland’s Frank Ryan throws three touchdown passes and 40-year-old Lou Groza kicks three field goals in the Browns 27-0 victory over the Baltimore Colts.
The Vindicator receives word that the Youngstown Newspaper Guild is willing to resume negotiations in an effort to settle a strike that began Aug. 18.
1939: A Mahoning County grand jury says there is evidence of wholesale irregularities and the fraudulent marking of ballots in a Campbell Board of Education race, but there’s not enough time for the jury to return an indictment. It is recommending that the incoming grand jury take up the case.
Trains from the east are arriving in Youngstown anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours late because of heavy snowfall on the route.
Henry George Dalton, the “silent” chairman of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and one of the last of the steel and iron industry pioneers in Youngstown, dies in Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland. He was 77.