YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 6, the 341st day of 2016. There are 25 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1865: The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, is ratified as Georgia becomes the 27th state to endorse it.

1889: Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, dies in New Orleans.

1907: The worst mining disaster in U.S. history occurs as 362 men and boys die in a coal mine explosion in Monongah, W. Va.

1947: Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated by President Harry S. Truman.

1969: A free concert by The Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway in Alameda County, Calif., is marred by the deaths of four people, including one who is stabbed by a Hell’s Angel.

2006: The bipartisan Iraq Study Group concludes that President George W. Bush’s war policies have failed in almost every regard, and says the situation in Iraq is “grave and deteriorating.”

2011: Declaring the American middle class in jeopardy, President Barack Obama, speaking in Osawatomie, Kan., outlines a populist economic vision that will drive his re-election bid, insisting the United States has to reclaim its standing as a country in which everyone could prosper if provided “a fair shot and a fair share.”

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1991: The state of Ohio will add a 250-bed honor camp to the 500-bed Trumbull Correctional Institution in Warren.

A Mrs. Fields Cookies store opens inside the Boardman Phar-Mor as a test market that could result in more bakeries in other Phar-Mor stores.

Gov. George Voinovich says Ohio is willing to take care of the toxic waste that it produces, but not that produced in other states. He will seek a ban on hazardous-waste incinerators such as that under construction by Waste Technologies at East Liverpool.

1976: Ronald Baldine, a detective in the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Department, said 70 of 80 deputies have signed cards asking that the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees represent them.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Lambros orders that two of the next six people hired as Youngstown police officers be qualified black applicants and that all six be hired as soon as possible.

More than 350 people attend the lighting of Boardman’s first Christmas tree, which was donated by Mr. and Mrs. William Streiner and erected at the northeast corner of Routes 224 and 7.

1966: Wean Industries Inc. will spend $3 million to expand the McKay Machine Co. in Youngstown.

The Youngstown Board of Education will upgrade its data processing equipment in order to serve county public schools and also the Ohio Department of Education.

Ralph Dickson, general superintendent of U.S. Steel Corp. and campaign chairman for the United Appeal, receives congratulations for exceeding the drive’s $1.7 million goal.

1941: Youngtown’s 11th annual Alias Santa Claus Club show, produced by Esther Hamilton, Vindicator columnist, to raise funds for Christmas baskets for the needy, is held at Stambaugh Auditorium. Servicemen in uniform are special guests.

Cpl. Alexander David Torok is head of the Theater Guild at the Ohio 37th Division at Camp Shelby, Miss., where the Chaney High graduate is directing soldiers in a variety of plays.

Richman Brothers sale: “Standard Quality” suits and overcoats, $22.50; “Super Quality” suits and overcoats, $27.50; tuxedos, $22.50 and tails, $24.50.