Saturday, December 24, 2016
Today is Saturday, Dec. 24, the 359th day of 2016. There are seven days left in the year. This is Christmas Eve; the Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, begins at sunset.
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On this date in:
1865: Several veterans of the Confederate Army form a private social club in Pulaski, Tenn., that was the original version of the Ku Klux Klan.
1906: Canadian physicist Reginald A. Fessenden becomes the first person to transmit the human voice (his own) as well as music over radio, from Brant Rock, Mass.
1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe as part of Operation Overlord.
1968: The Apollo 8 astronauts, orbiting the moon, read passages from the Old Testament Book of Genesis during a Christmas Eve telecast.
2015: Christian faithful from around the world descend on the biblical city of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations as an outburst of Israeli-Palestinian violence dampens the typically festive mood.
VINDICATOR FILES
1991: Trumbull County commissioners name four members to the new two county airport authority: A.C. Charnas, John Latell, Dan Lewis and Chester Amedia. Charnas is Commissioner Chris Lardis’ cousin and Latell is Commissioner Anthony Latell’s son. Commissioner Arthur Magee, who voted against using county money for the airport, was not given a chance to nominate anyone.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency grants a permit to operate a treatment plant for contaminated soil in Lowellville. The plant will be operated by a division of Gennaro Pavers Inc. of Warren.
Armed with search warrants signed by Judge Michael Gerchak, Boardman police raid three video stores in the township, confiscating 75 tapes that they deemed obscene.
1976: The Ohio Supreme Court rules that the state’s bonding authority may not lend its funds for private home construction or rehabilitation.
Robert D. Mummert, a widely known Sebring- area Democratic leader, is killed in a two-vehicle crash in Smith Township.
Pre-Christmas new domestic car sales hit the second-fastest rate in history, with the four U.S.-carmakers selling 223,556 cars in the Dec. 11-20 span.
1966: After reading a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story about 13-year-old Debbie Cormier’s desire for a horse, Edward J. DeBartolo gives her Whirlimate, a 7-year-old gelding, grandson of Whirlaway. Debbie has been handicapped in her walking since an accident.
Policemen and firemen in Warren are back on the job, ending a three-day sickout and opening the way for contract negotiations.
More than 600 youngsters are guests of East Palestine First National Bank Christmas matinee at the newly remodeled East Palestine Theater.
1941: “Sledge Hammer Jerry” Pascarella swings into action again, smashing a slot machine at the Jones Drug Store on Market Street, taking $256.50 in coins from the machine, which he will turn over to the Chamber of Commerce for the “Mile of Dimes” campaign.
Youngstown Steel Door Co. employees pledge a day’s pay to the Red Cross War Chest fund.
The chapel-naming contest sponsored by The Vindicator in conjunction with the Trinity Methodist Church building program is over and the winners for the name “Little Chapel of Friendly Bells” are Mrs. Eva Sutherland and Mrs. Stephen Glazzy.