YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Dec. 2, the 337th day of 2016. There are 29 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1804: Napoleon crowns himself emperor of the French.

1816: The first savings bank in the United States, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opens for business.

1927: Ford Motor Co. unveils its Model A automobile that replaced its Model T.

1954: The U.S. Senate passes, 67-22, a resolution condemning Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., saying he had “acted contrary to senatorial ethics and tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”

1961: Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares himself a Marxist-Leninist who would eventually lead Cuba to Communism.

1982: In the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implant a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Dr. Barney Clark. (He would live 112 days with the device.)

2006: Fidel Castro fails to attend a military parade marking the 50th anniversary of the formation of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces, raising questions about his ability to return to power.

2015: A couple who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State opens fire at a holiday banquet for public employees in San Bernardino, Calif., killing 14 people and wounding 21 others before dying in a shootout with police.

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1991: Unions representing 1,200 hospital workers at Northside and Southside medical centers say it doesn’t appear that new contracts will be reached with Western Reserve Care System without a strike.

Quarterback Bernie Kosar leads the Cleveland Browns to a 31-0 whitewash of the Indianapolis Colts.

The two lawyers who successfully represented black Mahoning County residents in a federal- court challenge of the constitutionality of two Mahoning County Ohio House districts are seeking more than $600,000 in fees and costs. Robert Douglas and Percy Squires say it took 2,000 hours of work.

1976: An acetylene torch ignited some combustible insulation material in the partially rebuilt Penn-Ohio Truck Stop in North Lima, causing an estimated $200,000 in damage.

The Youngstown Area Urban League asks the Youngstown Board of Education to review its selection of security guards at city schools following complaints about overzealous behavior at Rayen and East high schools.

Brothers Carmen and Michael Pachell have 80 years between them working for the U.S. Steel Corp. When added to the years of their late father and three brothers who have retired, the Pachell family has a combined 211 years with the company.

1966: North and South Side Hospital are operating satisfactorily on a reduced-patient basis despite the mass resignation of registered nurses. The patient load was reduced from 411 to 210.

Mahoning County Commissioner John Palermo is elected president of the Ohio State Commissioners Association.

Twenty-two new patients joined the multiple sclerosis program during the past year, making a total of 240 served by the Tru-Mah-Col Chapter of the National MS Society.

1941: The first step toward replacing the police department’s rickety radio cruisers with 26 new cruiser is taken when council passes legislation for a $35,000 bond issue.

Mearl Butler, deputy Mahoning County auditor, elected clerk-treasurer of Youngstown Board of Education to succeed Enoch Williams.