YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2015. There are 21 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1520: Martin Luther publicly burns the papal edict demanding that he recant or face excommunication.

1817: Mississippi is admitted as the 20th state of the union.

1905: The O. Henry short story “The Gift of the Magi” is published in the New York Sunday World Magazine under the title “Gifts of the Magi.”

1906: President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.

1931: Jane Addams becomes the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; the co-recipient is Nicholas Murray Butler.

1948: The U.N. General Assembly adopts its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

1950: Ralph J. Bunche is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive the award.

1964: Martin Luther King Jr. receives his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, saying he accepted it “with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind.”

1984: South African Bishop Desmond Tutu receives the Nobel Peace Prize.

1994: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin receive the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East.

2005: A Nigerian jetliner crashes while landing in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, killing all but two of the 110 people on board.

A U.N. conference on global warming ends in Montreal with an agreement by more than 150 nations (not including the United States) to open talks on mandatory post-2012 reductions in greenhouse gases.

Actor-comedian Richard Pryor, 65, dies in Encino, Calif.

2010: The Norwegian Nobel Committee honors Chinese literary critic Liu Xiaobo, imprisoned for urging political reform, by presenting his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize diploma and medal to an empty chair.

2014: Current and former CIA officials push back against the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report released the day before that concludes that the United States had brutalized scores of terror suspects during interrogations, calling the report a political stunt by Senate Democrats, which tarnished a program that saved American lives.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Seven women from Mahoning and Trumbull counties are among 115 women seeking clemency from Gov. Richard F. Celeste on grounds that they suffered from battered-woman syndrome when they committed violent crimes.

More than half of 600 members of the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants surveyed say they believe business conditions will worsen in the first half of 1991.

Frank Hiland of Greene Township, Trumbull County, files suit in federal court claiming that state and federal governments have changed the boundaries on lakefront property at Mosquito Creek State Park, cutting 7 acres off what should be a 29-acre plot of his property.

1975: A homemade pipe bomb explodes in a planter in the concourse of Eastwood Mall, scattering dirt for 40 feet and damaging ceiling tiles. Police cordoned off the southeast corner of the mall adjacent to the Sears store for about a half-hour while debris was cleaned up and a search was made for other explosives.

Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter believes that a 40 percent rate hike being sought by the Ohio Edison Co. can be negotiated downward.

Directors of Microdot Inc., parent of Valley Mould & Iron Co. of Hubbard, launch an effort to stave off a proposed takeover by General Cable Corp. that sent the price of Microdot stock up by $5.

1965: The Ohio State University trustees vote 7-1 to build a $300,000 residence for university president Novice G. Fawcett.

Sharon City Council adopts a $1.6 million budget for 1966 that includes 5 percent pay raises for all city employees.

Two Youngstown policewomen working for a month on a variety of tips arrest a South Side woman in the case of “Baby Doe,” a male infant left on the steps of the St. Patrick Rectory on Nov. 15.

1940: Directors of the Mahoning County Chapter for Infantile Paralysis and others are invited to St. Elizabeth Hospital to inspect the physiotherapy Department. Sister Germaine, hospital superintendent, conducts the tour.

“Red” Pugh’s basket in overtime gives the Spartans a 22-20 victory over the Shamrocks in the East Side Federation basketball circuit at Lincoln Gym.

Youngstown City Council votes 4-3 to table an ordinance that would set a minimum fine of $200 for violating city gambling ordinances.