YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Dec. 5, the 340th day of 2016. There are 26 days left in the year.

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1791: Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna, Austria, at age 35.

1831: Former President John Quincy Adams takes his seat as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

1933: National Prohibition ends as Utah becomes the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment.

1955: The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge to form the AFL-CIO under its first president, George Meany.

1988: A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicts PTL founder Jim Bakker and former aide Richard Dortch on fraud and conspiracy charges. (Bakker was convicted on all counts; Dortch pleaded guilty to four counts and cooperated with prosecutors in exchange for a lighter sentence.

2013: Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first black president, dies at age 95.

2015: In the wake of a commando-style shooting rampage by a Muslim extremist couple in Southern California that left 14 people dead, The New York Times calls for more gun regulation in its first Page 1 editorial in 95 years.

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1991: A flagship Phar-Mor store, a Service Merchandise store and a Sun TV and Appliance outlet are expected to open in September 1992 in the Shops at Boardman Park, which is being built on Route 224.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant and Mahoning and Trumbull county officials will meet to begin planning how to spend $25 million in bridge and road projects that will be part of the $15 billion federal highway and mass-transit bill.

Youngstown City Council approves a moratorium on new garbage-disposal sites, including hazardous waste and demolition material.

1976: Several hundred people brave freezing weather for the annual “Keep Christ in Christmas” ceremony on Federal Plaza.

The cornerstone for the new basic medical science facility of Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine at Rootstown will be laid Dec. 16.

Cardinal Mooney High School’s speech team wins first-place honors over 31 other schools in a tournament at Toledo Witmer High School.

1966: Six-year-old Timmy Gardner is killed while sled riding in Salineville when his sled coasted out of an alley and under the wheels of a car.

Two sophomores at Cardinal Mooney High School receive Eagle Scout awards: William Mills and Bob Zebracki.

Forty teenagers agree to form a Teenage Council that will meet weekly and discuss grievances, tension and surly attitudes that have developed among gangs of youths in the city.

1941: Campbell Mayor Anthony F. Pacella orders Police Chief John Oshelski to investigate a 16-year-old girl’s allegation that city police officers visited a house of prostitution in which she was forced to work. The girl was turned over to juvenile authorities after a raid by county deputies.

Two carloads of apples grown in the Columbiana-Mahoning County district are ready for shipment from Salem to Great Britain under the lend-lease act.

Howard J. Welsch, Youngstown masonry contractor, places third in the U.S. mixed-pairs bridge tournament at Richmond, Va. He played with Mrs. Albert Rockwell of Warren, Pa.