Saturday, December 31, 2016
Today is Saturday, Dec. 31, the 366th and final day of 2016.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1775: During the Revolutionary War, the British repulsed an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Quebec; Montgomery was killed.
1879: Thomas Edison first publicly demonstrates his electric incandescent light in Menlo Park, N.J.
1904: New York’s Times Square has its first New Year’s Eve celebration, with an estimated 200,000 people in attendance.
1946: President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
1969: Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, is shot to death with his wife and daughter in their Clarksville, Pa., home by hit men acting at the orders of UMWA president Tony Boyle.
1972: Major League baseball player Roberto Clemente, 38, is killed when a plane he’d chartered and was traveling on to bring relief supplies to earthquake-devastated Nicaragua crashed shortly after takeoff from Puerto Rico.
2001: New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani spends his final day in office praising police, firefighters, and other city employees in the wake of 9/11, and says he had no regrets about returning to private life.
VINDICATOR FILES
1991: Mahoning County Common Pleas Court judges sign a court order authorizing pay raises for some court employees after county commissioners resist appropriating additional money for court operations.
Kevin Tarpley, a former Youngstown resident who works with a national youth organization based in Massachusetts, warns that the violence that has resulted in 59 homicides in the city in 1991 is going to get worse.
Ohio Gov. George Voinovich signs an executive order mandating that state agencies cut $196.3 million from their budgets.
1976: Several schools in Mahoning and Columbiana counties may have to close in February if Columbia Gas Co. has to further reduce natural gas allocations.
Fourteen Youngstown policemen, including two sergeants, are notified by Chief Donald G. Baker that disciplinary action is being instituted against them for violating departmental rules.
Mahoning County Sheriff Michael Yarosh adds 15 men to his roster, including his son, Michael, and Keith Hanni, son of Atty. Don L. Hanni.
The Youngstown district moves into 1977 with a snapback in steel production, improving orders and the possibility of an increase in employment.
1966: A proposed merger of Automatic Sprinkler Corp. of America and Scott Industries Inc. of Lancaster, N.Y., is approved by Scott directors. Scott manufactures protective breathing devices, aviation equipment and hydraulic cylinders.
Campbell police officers, seeking higher pay, report off sick, following the lead of Struthers safety forces who had the “blue flu” for two days.
Robert E. Sprinkle is installed as the 20th president of Uptown Kiwanis Club at the Golden Drumstick, succeeding Charles Shellog Jr.
1941: Jerry Pascarella, youthful Youngstown man who has been operating as a one-man vice squad against slot machines in the city, spends the night in city jail “for his own protection” after he receives a threat on his life.
The family of Carl Sirovica of Youngstown, mourning for two weeks the news he was killed at Pearl Harbor, has received word that he is alive and not injured.
Rayen’s alumni, boasting some of the district’s top talent, defeat the Rayen School’s cagers, handing them their first defeat in five games. James Nard, Jack Slifka and Dom Rosselli were outstanding.