Monday, December 29, 2014
Today is Monday, Dec. 29, the 363rd day of 2014. There are two days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1812: During the War of 1812, the American frigate USS Constitution engages and severely damages the British frigate HMS Java off Brazil.
1845: Texas is admitted as the 28th state.
1890: The Wounded Knee massacre takes place in South Dakota as an estimated 300 Sioux Indians are killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.
1916: Grigory Rasputin, the so-called “Mad Monk” who’d wielded great influence with Czar Nicholas II, is killed by a group of Russian noblemen in St. Petersburg.
1934: Japan formally renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
1939: “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara, is released by RKO Radio Pictures.
1940: During World War II, Germany drops incendiary bombs on London, setting off what comes to be known as “The Second Great Fire of London.”
1957: Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are married in Las Vegas.
1972: Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, crashes into the Florida Everglades near Miami International Airport, killing 101 of the 176 people aboard.
1975: A bomb explodes in the main terminal of New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people.
1989: Dissident and playwright Vaclav Havel assumes the presidency of Czechoslovakia.
2004: President George W. Bush assembles a four-nation coalition to organize humanitarian relief for Asia and makes clear the United States would help bankroll long-term rebuilding in the region leveled by a massive earthquake and tsunamis.
VINDICATOR FILES
1989: A West Hylda Avenue woman files suit against the city of Youngstown seeking compensation for damage to her house after police chased murder suspect Warren D. Spivey into her house and then flushed him out with a barrage of tear gas.
Even before Don L. Hanni III takes his seat on the Youngstown Board of Education, he breaks ranks with the other board members, holding a separate swearing-in ceremony at the Mahoning County Democratic Party headquarters.
Godfrey Anderson, president of Liberty Realty, says nine of the 12 apartments in his upscale Essex House apartment building overlooking the Youngstown Country Club were quickly leased at rents of $995 to $1,150 a month, primarily to active and retired area executives.
1974: Youngstown Firemen Jim Barber and Mike Drummond rescue a 47-year-old woman from the burning bedroom of her Delaware Avenue home.
Forty foreign visitors complete a week-long program at Youngstown State University, part of the eighth annual Leadership Training Seminar sponsored by the Agency for International Development.
State Sen. Harry Meshel, D-Youngstown, says he will introduced two bills in the 111th General Assembly that would repeal the Ferguson Act, which prohibits strikes by public employees but has been unevenly applied.
1964: Trumbull County receives 12.2 acres from the Brookfield Radar base. The county plans to use the land for a nursing home, with Brookfield School District receiving 7.7 acres.
Ohio Chief Justice Kingsley Taft will swear in three new justices: C. William O’Neill, 48, former governor; Tax Commissioner Louis J. Schneider Jr., 43, of Cincinnati and 7th District Appellate Judge Paul W. Brown, 49, of Youngstown.
1939: Walter Mitchell, former state tax commissioner, will serve as Mayor-elect William Spagnola’s finance director. Attorney John A. Willo will be law director and Ralph W. O’Neill will be city engineer.
Mahoning County ranked 31st among the nation’s 3,070 counties in wages paid by manufacturers, during 1937, a report made public by Secretary of Commerce Harry I. Hopkins shows.
The theft of 700 pounds of dynamite and 800 blasting caps from a WPA project in Austintown is reported to FBI agents in Cleveland by Mahoning County Sheriff Ralph Elser.