YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, Dec. 12, the 347th day of 2016. There are 19 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1787: Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1870: Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the first black lawmaker sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives.

1906: President Theodore Roosevelt nominates Oscar Straus to be Secretary of Commerce and Labor; Straus later became the first Jewish Cabinet member.

1915: Singer-actor Frank Sinatra is born Francis Albert Sinatra in Hoboken, N.J.

1925: The first motel – the Motel Inn – opensin San Luis Obispo, Calif.

1946: A United Nations committee votes to accept a six-block tract of Manhattan real estate offered as a gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to be the site of the U.N.’s headquarters.

1985: Some 248 American soldiers and eight crew members are killed when an Arrow Air charter crashed after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland.

2000: George W. Bush becomes president-elect as a divided U.S. Supreme Court reversed a state court decision for recounts in Florida’s contested election.

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1991: Amid angry protests, Lowellville Village Council votes 4-3 to dismiss a court case that sought to close a soil incineration plant operated by Gennaro Pavers Inc.

Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro says the time for talking is over and the city of Youngstown and Mahoning and Trumbull counties must reach an agreement for funding the Youngstown Municipal Airport or airport employees will begin losing their jobs.

About 55 employees are scheduled to return to work to restart NRM Steelastic Inc.’s Columbiana and Leetonia plants after the machinists union agrees to concessions.

1976: Heavyweight Earnie Shavers brightened his prospects of a March title bout with champion Muhammad Ali when the Warren, Ohio, slugger staged a ferocious rally to knock out Roy Williams of Philadelphia in Las Vegas.

The Youngstown Foundation distributes $502,815 to various charities, the lion’s share of $370,167 going to benefit crippled children under terms of the will of the late Elizabeth Hine Cates.

Ohio Edison estimates that a Christmas tree with 100 midget lights and an outdoor display of 100 larger lights costs about 4 cents per hour, or about $1.50 for three hours a night during the holiday season.

1966: About 150 members of the Youngstown General Duty Nurses Association and 50 family members, many of them children, march in a demonstration for two hours at North and South Side hospitals in 30-degree weather.

A 17-year-old night watchman, Kenneth Hooks, is held prisoner for eight hours while burglars load a tractor-trailer with $50,000 in merchandise, much of it cigarettes, from the Golden Dawn warehouse in Sharon, Pa.

At a meeting of the new Teen-Age Council at Hotel Ohio, 30 boys agree that girls spread rumors that cause much of the hostility between the city’s sectional “gangs.”

Three figures stolen from a Nativity display at St Paul’s Lutheran Church are recovered by police in Mill Creek Park near Bear’s Den Road.

1941: The first Youngstown-district fatality confirmed from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is E.L. McGuckin, a 19-year-old sailor from East Palestine.

Bob Dove, Notre Dame end and former South High football star, is named to Newsweek magazine’s “Super All-American Eleven.”

McKelvey’s men’s clothing sale has winter overcoats for $29.50, corduroy coats at $12.50 and formal wear for $35.