YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Dec. 30, the 365th day of 2016. There is one day left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

1865: Author Rudyard Kipling is born in Bombay, India.

1916: Grigory Rasputin, the so-called “Mad Monk” who wielded considerable influence with Czar Nicholas II, is killed by a group of Russian noblemen in St. Petersburg.

1936: The United Auto Workers union stages its first “sit-down” strike at the General Motors Fisher Body Plant No. 1 in Flint, Michigan. (The strike lasted until Feb. 11, 1937.)

1979: Broadway composer Richard Rodgers dies in New York at age 77.

1994: A gunman walks into a pair of suburban Boston abortion clinics and opens fire, killing two employees.

1999: Former Beatle George Harrison fights off a knife-wielding intruder who’d broken into his mansion west of London and stabbed him in the chest.

2006: Iraqis awake to news that Saddam Hussein had been hanged earlier that morning.

2015: Bill Cosby is charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004; it is the first criminal case brought against the comedian.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: A day-after the Washington Post highlighted Youngstown’s record-setting number of murders, city police find the city’s 59th homicide victim, Sheran Dean, 39, who was found with three gunshot wounds in the 400 block of Breaden Street.

Reid Dulberger, executive director of the Regional Growth Alliance, the economic development arm of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce, says the local economy should mirror the national economy, which is stagnant but appears headed for slow growth.

Mahoning County commissioners adopt a 1992 general-fund budget that rolls back payrolls in some departments to 1988 levels but allows criminal justice offices to retain their salaries at 1991 levels.

1976: A dozen employees in the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Department who have not been offered jobs by Sheriff-elect Richard Jakmas say they and their union are planning a court challenge of any firings.

Municipal Judge Leo Morley administers the oath of office to Mahoning County’s new sheriff, Michael Yarosh on the same day that 19 deputies and officers – about a third of the force – receive termination letters.

Austintown police arrest six people, four of them juveniles on charges in a series of burglaries and acts of vandalism in the township, including vandalism at Fitch High School and the Timber Lane home of Norma Mahone, widow of a Vietnam War pilot.

1966: St. Elizabeth Hospital’s “cutie parade,” a pre-surgery hospital tour to quiet children’s apprehensions is the subject of a feature article in Parade magazine.

Local 47, Building Service and Maintenance Employees, AFL-CIO, sets up strike machinery against Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital following a unanimous strike vote of its members.

E.H. Duncan Inc. of North Main Street, Poland, purchases the building formerly occupied by the Poland Seed Co. at 108 S. Main St. for $85,000 and will use it to expand its business.

1941: Youngstown may become the first city in Ohio to get an air raid alert in case planes approach from the Atlantic Ocean.

Mr. and Mrs. August Kramer of Youngstown, who were mourning the reported death of the son, Donald, at Pearl Harbor receive a postcard from Donald three days after the bombing saying he is all right.

Commercial Shearing and Stamping employees are giving a day’s pay to the Red Cross War Chest, announces Charles B. Cushwa, company president.