Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 13, the 348th day of 2016. There are 18 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1642: Dutch navigator Abel Tasman sights present-day New Zealand.
1769: Dartmouth College in New Hampshire receives its charter.
1862: Union forces led by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside launch futile attacks against entrenched Confederate soldiers during the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg.
1918: President Woodrow Wilson arrives in France, becoming the first chief executive to visit Europe while in office.
1944: During World War II, the light cruiser USS Nashville was badly damaged in a Japanese kamikaze attack off Negros Island in the Philippines that claimed 133 lives.
1981: Authorities in Poland impose martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. (Martial law formally ended in 1983.)
1996: The U.N. Security Council chose Kofi Annan of Ghana to become the world body’s seventh secretary-general.
2003: Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, near his hometown of Tikrit.
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1991: About 75 newly elected board of education members from Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana, Portage, Geauga and Wayne counties attend a one-day orientation meeting at the Avalon Inn in Howland.
Trumbull County Sheriff Richard Jakmas tells commissioners that underfunding his department will be an open invitation to criminals to operate in the county.
Warren Councilman William D. Franklin accuses Mayor Daniel Sferra of vetoing his legislation to authorize stop signs at Adelaide Avenue and South Street in retaliation for Franklin opposing a pay raise for the mayor.
1976: The Youngstown Hospital Association says it will spend $611,706 to expand the cardiovascular laboratory and services at North Side Hospital to meet increasing demands.
A federal judge in Columbus dismisses a lawsuit filed by the Republican Party, the U.S. Labor Party and the American Party that alleged election fraud. The state’s electoral votes will go to Jimmy Carter, who had enough votes to win election without Ohio.
Cleveland Browns Coach Forrest Gregg says his team gave away the game to the Kansas City Chiefs, who shellacked the Browns, 39-14, and deprived Cleveland of its slim chance to make the playoffs.
1966: Mahoning County commissioners, fearful that the Board of Child Welfare may run out of money in 1967, calls a special meeting with the board to discuss a record $1,065,000 budget for the coming year.
Bishop James W. Malone blesses the foundation and cornerstone of the new St. Patrick Church in Hubbard.
Alma Alm is crowned queen at the St. Lucia Festival at Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Miss Alm was cited for her work in the Lutheran League.
Youngstown City Council passes two emergency ordinances providing for demolition of houses on South Avenue and Chestnut Street to provide right-of-way for the downtown loop.
1941: Harry Rownd, retired industrialist, will head the campaign to raise $170,000 as the district’s share of the national American Red Cross goal.
Boardman High School cagers storm to their third triumph, downing Austintown Fitch, 36-24. Tony Andio and Al Pastor are Boardman’s leading scorers.
Plans are complete for the annual Christmas party given by the YWCA Junior Business Women’s Club for 30 girls, age 9 to 13, from the Christ Mission.