YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2015. There are 28 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1818: Illinois is admitted as the 21st state.

1828: Andrew Jackson is elected president of the United States by the Electoral College.

1833: Oberlin College in Ohio – the first truly coeducational school of higher learning in the United States – begins classes.

1947: The Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire” opens on Broadway.

1960: The Lerner and Loewe musical “Camelot” opens on Broadway.

1965: The Beatles’ sixth studio album, “Rubber Soul,” is released in the United Kingdom by Parlophone (it was released in the U.S. by Capitol Records three days later)

1967: Surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard perform the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who lived 18 days with the new heart.

2005: Economic officials from the world’s richest countries resume their pressure on China to adopt a more flexible exchange rate as they conclude a meeting in London.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Hubbard Mayor Albert Sauline threatens to block renewal of the TCI Cablevision franchise unless the company makes officials available to respond to complaints about fuzzy reception, outages, rude personnel and rate increases.

If Mahoning residents think they’re seeing a lot of Christmas decorations for early December, they’re not imagining things. Temperatures in the 70s the last week of November had people hanging lights on their homes and trees.

John Mandopoulos, president of the Warren police union, disputes reports of retiring police officers “burning off” vacation time. “I don’t know of one person who has used sick time without being sick,” Mandopoulos says.

1975: In an unusual move, officials of the Mahoning County Tuberculosis Clinic ask county commissioners to initiate proceedings to reduce the clinic’s $400,000 levy by $100,000 for one year.

A hearing will take place at Apple Creek State Institute to determine what disciplinary action to take against three employees who apparently were negligent in allowing an inmate to rip out the fingernails of a 26-year-old Youngstown woman.

Ohio Edison Co. will sell its downtown office building at 25 E. Boardman St. and move its division office into City Centre One on Federal Plaza East.

1965: Boardman Township trustees vote a 7-percent, across-the-board raise for 53 township employees.

The William Cafaro Co. will sponsor the Miss Ohio pageant at the American Mall in Lima, Ohio. The winner will compete in the Miss USA pageant.

Amelia Picciochi, who has devoted a lifetime of humanitarian service to the aged ill, taking in those who have no money and no place to go, is arrested for operating an unlicensed nursing home in Wick Oval.

1940: A $25,000 suit charging “unlawful and forcible arrest and detention” is filed by Helen Ingle against four alleged owners of the Jungle Inn gambling den. The defendants are Donald Caputo, Emanuel Dupuy, Ed A. Flannigan and Mike Farah.

The Vindicator conducts a campaign to raise $1,000 for a Christmas party and gifts for 150 Youngstown National Guardsmen stationed at Camp Shelby.

Congressman Vincent Harran of Iowa comes to Youngstown to praise U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan at Kirwan’s 54th birthday party at the Hotel Ohio.