Today is Friday, Dec. 23, the 358th day of 2016

Today is Friday, Dec. 23, the 358th day of 2016. There are eight days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1788: Maryland passes an act to cede an area “not exceeding ten miles square” for the seat of the national government; about two-thirds of the area becomes the District of Columbia.

1823: The poem “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” is published in the Troy (N.Y.) Sentinel; the verse, more popularly known as “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” later would be attributed to Clement C. Moore.

1928: The National Broadcasting Co. sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast network.

1941: During World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrender to the Japanese.

1968: Eighty-two crew members of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo are released by North Korea, 11 months after they had been captured.

2006: The U.N. Security Council votes unanimously to impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment; Iran immediately rejects the resolution.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Warren Municipal Judge Lynn B. Griffith, who was asked by Bloomfield-Mespo teachers and the school board to help determine whether teachers should receive their first pay raise in five years, says that the district’s financial problems are real, but there are ways to pay the teachers more.

Mahoning and Trumbull county commissioners begin funneling money to a regional airport authority that will oversee Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Youngstown State University football players are back on campus and are showing off the NCAA Division 1-AA national trophy after they defeated Marshall 25-17 in a nationally televised game.

1976: Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter proposes a 1977 budget that has a $1.7 million deficit and would require the layoff of 163 regular and CETA employees.

Wayne Johnson, an 18-year-old Akron Buchtel High School basketball player is pronounced dead at Trumbull Memorial Hospital where he was taken after collapsing following a collision with a teammate during a game at Warren Harding High School.

John Fromel, a career Youngstown city police officer, is named by Mahoning County Sheriff-elect Michael Yarosh as his chief deputy.

1966: A well-dressed bandit takes $500 from a Hotel Ohio cashier, and one hour later a man brandishing a revolver takes $300 from a Tod Hotel clerk and escapes in a cab.

Molten iron spilling from a blast furnace tap hole showers sparks on a construction shed that burned in the Republic Steel Plant near Stop 5.

Mae Turner, head of the day division of the Youngstown University secretarial school, is appointed head of both the day and night divisions, succeeding Robert Craig.

Stephen Baytos sells the Voyager Motor Inn to the owners of the Ohio Hotel. The price for the Motor Inn and four others out of state was $13 million.

1941: H. Ross Packard, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and an infantry captain in World War I, is named executive secretary of the Mahoning County Office of Civilian Defense.

George C. Brainard, president of General Fireproofing Co., is named chief of the office of production and management, tools and equipment section, succeeding Mason Britton, who returned to McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.

The Pennsylvania and Erie railroads are delivering $58,000 to employees in the Youngstown district in time for Christmas under terms of a recent agreement with various unions.