Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 14, the 349th day of 2016. There are 17 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1799: The first president of the United States, George Washington, dies at his Mount Vernon, Va., home at age 67.
1916: President Woodrow Wilson vetoes an immigration measure aimed at preventing “undesirables” and anyone born in the “Asiatic Barred Zone” from entering the U.S. (Congress overrode Wilson’s veto in Feb. 1917.)
1964: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, rules that Congress is within its authority to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against racial discrimination by private businesses (in this case, a motel that refused to cater to blacks).
2006: A British police inquiry concludes that the deaths of Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, in a 1997 Paris car crash were a “tragic accident,” and that allegations of a murder conspiracy were unfounded.
2012: A gunman with a semi-automatic rifle kills 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., then committs suicide as police arrive; 20-year-old Adam Lanza also had fatally shot his mother at their home before carrying out the attack on the school.
2015: Bill Cosby fires back at seven women who were suing him for defamation, accusing them in a federal countersuit of making false accusations of sexual misconduct for financial gain.
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1991: Employees at McDonald Steel Corp. vote 77-55 against joining the United Steelworkers union. David Houck, company president, said the vote demonstrates the faith employees have in management.
Eight of nine Cardinal Mooney High School students who spoke as St. Charles School as part of the DARE program say they have been offered alcohol at parties and say it is easier for teens to get alcohol than drugs.
Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Kenneth Valez, 23, is treated at St. Elizabeth Hospital for cuts and bruises suffered when a hit-skip driver struck him while he was investigating an accident on Market Street near the Southern Park Mall.
1976: The Niles Area Chamber of Commerce elects Nancy Stauffer to lead it during 1977, making her the first woman to be elected president of the chamber.
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Anthony Celebrezze swears in newly elected and re-elected Mahoning County public officials during the Mahoning County Democratic Party’s Christmas Party at the Fountain South.
Hearn Paper Co. re-elects J.E. Bakalik president and announces three promotions: J. Lawrence Ortz, vice president; Bryan K. Reed, treasurer and Gabriel Covas as general sales manager.
1966: New school levies in Youngstown and Struthers are defeated while Poland’s school levy passes by 34 votes. About 600 Struthers students stayed out of school to protest the defeat.
Stolen merchandise valued at more than $25,000 taken in burglaries over a four-year period are recovered by Boardman police, who arrested two former members of their department.
North and South Side hospital operations will return to normal after an agreement between the Youngstown Hospital Association and the General Duty Nurses Association.
General Motors plans to build a new sports car for the Pontiac Motor Division at Lordstown.
1941:After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, renewed attention is being paid to a Feb. 23, 1939, vote in which the House of Representatives rejected President Roosevelt’s call for $5 million to build an air base on Guam. The only Ohio congressman supporting the president was Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown.
Readers will be able to follow the war on a special map in The Vindicator that shows the entire theater of war.