YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 1, the 335th day of 2015. There are 30 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1824: The presidential election is turned over to the U.S. House of Representatives when a deadlock develops among John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay. (Adams ended up the winner.)

1860: The Charles Dickens novel “Great Expectations” is first published in weekly serial form.

1862: President Abraham Lincoln sends his Second Annual Message to Congress, in which he calls for the abolition of slavery, and goes on to say, “Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves.”

1921: The Navy flies the first nonrigid dirigible to use helium; the C-7 travels from Hampton Roads, Va., to Washington, D.C.

1934: Soviet communist official Sergei M. Kirov, an associate of Josef Stalin’s, is assassinated in Leningrad, resulting in a massive purge.

1942: Nationwide gasoline rationing goes into effect in the United States.

1955: Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, is arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus; the incident sparks a yearlong boycott of the buses by blacks.

1965: An airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States begins in which thousands of Cubans are allowed to leave their homeland.

1969: The U.S. government has its first draft lottery since World War II.

1990: British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel between their countries finally meet after knocking out a passage in a service tunnel.

2005: A roadside bomb kills 10 U.S. Marines near Fallujah, Iraq.

2010:President Barack Obama’s bipartisan deficit commission unveils its recommendations including lower income taxes, fewer tax breaks and higher age for retirement benefits.

2014: President Obama, after meeting with mayors, civil-rights leaders and law- enforcement officials at the White House, asks federal agencies for concrete recommendations to ensure the U.S. wasn’t building a “militarized culture” within police departments.

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1990: Citing reduced commercial activity nationwide, Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. says it will cut its corporate staff in January and will not be issuing Christmas bonuses or hosting holiday parties.

Brentwood Originals lays off about 120 people hours after Gov. Richard Celeste toured the plant and extolled the jobs created there. A company spokesman says the company traditionally has laid off workers after Christmas orders have been filled and that they probably would be called back in the new year.

Davis International of Youngstown expects to sign a $4 million contract with Soviet Union officials to build a slaughterhouse in Leningrad.

1975: Keith Boldt, a 21-year-old Boardman sailor home on leave, is robbed of $25 and beaten after hitchhiking home from a South Avenue tavern.

Visiting Judge Merle Hoddinott of Monroe County will rule on what would be an equitable distribution of water-rate increases between county and city users after city and county officials fail to reach a negotiated agreement.

Pennsylvania state police say criminal charges may be filed against a 13-year-old Milford , Pa., boy who shot and killed two men while hunting. The boy said he thought he saw a bear and fired. One bullet passed through both men, who were walking single-file.

1965: An elderly Salem couple and a woman living on a farm near East Palestine die in fires. Dead are Mr. and Mrs. Gottfried Ryser, 80, and Miss Connie Hickman, 25.

The Ohio Turnpike is on track for record annual revenue of $30 million.

Delores Carr of Fowler Township receives the Meritorious Service Award from the Greater Youngstown Crime Clinic. She pulled Robert Emery from his wrecked and burning truck near her Warner Road home.

1940: Sixty-seven triumphant years of street car service in Youngstown will end Dec. 8 when the last Campbell car leaves Central Square and clatters toward Wilson Avenue.

Named to The Vindicator’s All-City Scholastic team for 1940: Nate Laskin, Bill Richards, Guy Massocco, William McMillen, Bob Probyn, Casper Diana, Ed Finamore, Jack Slifka, Al Perl, Talmadge Jackson and Ernest Deak.

A collection of 79 works of art from 79 countries in which the International Business Machine Corp. does business is on exhibit at the Butler Institute of American Art.