YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 2015. There are 10 days left in the year. Winter arrives at 11:48 p.m.

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On this date in:

1620: Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower go ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Mass.

1864: During the Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman conclude their “March to the Sea” as they capture Savannah, Ga.

1914: The first feature-length silent film comedy, Mack Sennett’s “Tillie’s Punctured Romance,” starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin, premieres.

1937: Walt Disney’s first animated feature, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” has its world premiere in Los Angeles.

1945: U.S. Army Gen. George S. Patton, 60, dies in Heidelberg, Germany, 12 days after being seriously injured in a car accident.

1968: Apollo 8 is launched on a mission to orbit the moon.

1988: Some 270 people are killed when a terrorist bomb explodes aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage to the ground.

2005: The Senate rejects opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

2010: The Census Bureau announces that the nation’s population April 1, 2010, is 308,745,538, up from 281.4 million a decade earlier.

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1990: Staff Sgt. Leonard Scott of Warren, serving with Ohio’s 324th Army National Guard military police unit in Austintown, is awarded the Guard’s Valley Forge Medal for Heroism for rescuing a baby from a burning home in Kelheim, Germany.

Fifteen Warren city firefighters file suit in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court seeking to block the city from enforcing its residency rule.

Trumbull Savings & Loan Co. sues OhioBanc Corp. for $7 million contending the Youngstown company “maliciously” criticized Trumbull’s banking practices in a lawsuit filed in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. The two companies had been in merger talks.

1975: Employment at the General Motors Lords-town assembly plant, Fisher Body fabricating plant and Packard Electric Division plants in Warren totaled 19,674 in 1975, down from 23,534 a year earlier. Still, GM contributed nearly $401 million to the area’s economy in 1975.

“Winter Self Portrait” by Bertram Hartman, one of the artist’s most- significant works from the 1930s, is a gift to the Butler Institute of American Art from Mr. and Mrs. Nahum Tschacbasov of New York. Joe Erdelac of Cleveland gave an imposing canvas by Shirley Aley Campbell that depicts five people involved in the arts, including institute director Joseph G. Butler.

The Akron Zips rally in the second half to hand the YSU Penguins their first basketball defeat of the season, 64-62, while winning the Youngstown Classic before 4,000 fans at Beeghly Center.

1965: Guy J. Harris of Birmingham, Ala., is the new manager of the Hotel Pick Ohio, succeeding Alan Kelling, who has transferred to a Pick hotel in East Lansing, Mich.

The federal food-stamp program will be extended to Mahoning and Trumbull counties, but local authorities say it will take a few months to begin operations.

The Mahoning Welfare Advisory Board recommends that $33 per day be established as the payment to Youngstown hospitals for treatment of welfare clients.

1940: Seventy-three men of Company H, 145th Infantry and Headquarters Battery, arrive in the Mahoning Valley from Camp Shelby, Miss., to spend the Christmas holidays with their families.

Six fire companies wage a six-hour battle to control a fire at Republic Steel Corp.’s Bessemer plant near South Avenue. Molten steel burned through a mixer, pouring on the ground with a loud explosion.

It will be a bleak Christmas for Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wagner and their three sons after Henry, 7, runs into Kyle Street in front of the Wagners’ home while playing “kick the stick” and is crushed by a truck.