YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 27, the 362nd day of 2016. There are four days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1831: Naturalist Charles Darwin sets out on a round-the-world voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.

1932: New York City’s Radio City Music Hall opens.

1945: The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are formally established.

1947: The original version of the puppet character Howdy Doody makes his TV debut on NBC’s “Puppet Playhouse.”

1979: Soviet forces seize control of Afghan-istan.

1985: Palestinian guerrillas open fire inside the Rome and Vienna airports; 19 victims are killed, plus four attackers are slain by police and security personnel.

2007: Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is assassinated during a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan after a campaign rally.

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1991: Arthur G. Young, former president and CEO of Mahoning National Bank of Youngstown, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital. He was 70.

Chuck Noll, the only professional football coach to have won four Super Bowls, retires as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Coming after a mediocre final season, the retirement was not a surprise.

The median home value in Ohio dropped 11.5 percent over a decade, from $71,770 in 1980 to $63,500 in 1990. In Mahoning County, the drop was 19.7 percent, from $59,676 to $47,900.

1976: Four W. Laclede Avenue children are in fair condition at Tod Babies and Children’s Hospital with injuries that Youngstown police say were deliberately inflicted. Police investigated after one of the children, a 7-year-old girl, turned up at a neighborhood grocery store with suspicious injuries.

Kathy Crumbley, 30, is sworn in as sheriff of Belmont County, the first woman elected sheriff in Ohio and the third female sheriff in the nation.

The Westinghouse Electric Corp.’s transformer division in Sharon receives a $2.25 million order for 22 large transformers for the U.S. government’s uranium enrichment facility at Oak Ridge, Tenn.

1966: Ohio Bell Telephone Co. says Youngs-town area residents set a record number of long-distance phone calls on Christmas day at 60,132. Of those, 47,213 were by direct dial, and 12,919 went through an operator.

A burglar escaped police bullets after attempting to enter Youngstown University’s Kilcawley Center. Patrolman Anthony Bond, working off duty, heard glass breaking and ran toward the building. As a yellow car sped away, Bond fired five shots at it.

1941: A collapsing chimney on a house being razed on Market Street near Wayne Avenue collapses, showering August Esenwein, 14, who had been playing on the roof, with bricks. He is in serious condition.

Youngstown motorists are put on notice that they won’t be able to buy new tires for the foreseeable future. Exceptions will be made for doctors, surgeons, visiting nurses, bus operators and drivers of vehicles important to public health and safety.

Lt. Col. Donald J. Lynn, executive director of civilian defense for Mahoning County, says his volunteers will be expected to work “calmly and with deliberation.”