YEARS AGO FOR DECEMBER 10

Today is Sunday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2017. There are 21 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1520: Martin Luther publicly burns the papal edict demanding that he recant parts of his 95 Theses, or face excommunication.

1690: Massachusetts Bay becomes first American colonial government to issue paper money.

1817: Mississippi is admitted as the 20th state of the Union.

1869: Women are granted the right to vote in Wyoming Territory.

1898: A treaty is signed in Paris officially ending the Spanish-American War.

1901: First Nobel Peace Prizes are awarded to Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy.

1906: President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.

1931: Jane Addams becomes the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; the co-recipient is Nicholas Murray Butler.

1946: Newspaperman Damon Runyon, known for his short stories featuring colorful Broadway denizens, dies at a New York hospital at age 66.

1950: Ralph J. Bunche is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive the award.

1964: Martin Luther King Jr. receives his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, saying he accepts it “with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind.”

1967: Singer Otis Redding, 26, and six others are killed when their plane crashes into Wisconsin’s Lake Monona; one passenger, Ben Cauley, survived.

1972: Baseball’s American League adopts the designated hitter rule on an experimental basis for three years.

1978: “Superman: The Movie,” directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder premieres at the Uptown Theater, Washington, D.C

1987: President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev conclude three days of summit talks in Washington.

Violinist Jascha Heifetz dies in Los Angeles at age 86.

1994: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin receive the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East.

1996: South African President Nelson Mandela signs the country’s new constitution into law during a ceremony in Sharpeville.

2007: Suspended NFL star Michael Vick is sentenced by a federal judge in Richmond, Va., to 23 months in prison for bankrolling a dogfighting operation and killing dogs that underperformed (Vick served 19 months at Leavenworth).

Madison Square Garden and New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas reach an $11.5 million settlement of a sexual harassment case brought by former team executive Anucha Browne Sanders.

Cristina Fernandez is sworn in as Argentina’s first elected female president.

Former Vice President Al Gore accepts the Nobel Peace Prize with a call for humanity to rise up against a looming climate crisis and stop waging war on the environment.

2012: President Barack Obama tells auto workers in Michigan that he will not compromise on his demand that tax rates go up for the top 2 percent of American earners to help reduce the deficit.

A judge announces that former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a New York City hotel maid have signed a settlement of her sexual-assault lawsuit stemming from a May 2011 encounter.

Marijuana for recreational use becomes legal in Colorado.

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1992: Rudolph A. Schlais Jr., general manager of Packard Electric, says General Motors’ plan to invest in its automotive components divisions with the strongest worldwide growth potential reaffirms Packard’s commitment to the global marketplace.

Youngstown records its 50th homicide of the year when Jibril Allah, 18, is shot to death while using the telephone at a Kimmel Brook Homes apartment.

The potential consolidation study for the Youngstown, Warren and Niles chambers of commerce is nearly complete and will be presented to the board of the three organizations by the end of the year.

1977: Sgt. Anthony Bond of the Youngstown Auto Theft Bureau, says the arrest of two East Side men has dismantled a ring that stole cars from the Eastwood and Southern Park malls.

The Rev. Inez Ellis is ordained to the ministry by the ecclesiastical committee of the Pentecostal House of Prayer.

Members of United Auto Workers Local 1112 at the Lordstown General Motors Assembly Plant vote overwhelmingly to retain Marlin “Whitey” Ford as president in a special election ordered by a Public Review Board.

1967: Paul Behun, a service station operator for 20 years, is named Campbell’s postmaster, succeeding Michael Reichert

James K. Pruett, 27, of Youngstown, whose six- month jail term for unarmed robbery was postponed so that he could be home for Christmas, is fatally shot at his father-in-law’s home on Old Furnace Road.

Hickory Township officials approve a change in zoning regulations to permit limited commercial development along the Shenango Valley freeway.

Trumbull County commissioners turn down a commercial offer in deference to history, rejecting a local developer’s purchase of the 135-year-old Kinsman House and adjoining property.

1942: Registration of 18-year-old boys for military service will begin in Youngstown and continue through Dec. 31. This is the sixth registration since the Selective Service System was established in 1940.

Boardman High School’s football team goes through its schedule of nine games without suffering a tie or defeat, allowing only Newton Falls to score one touchdown while scoring 349 points during the season.

William B. Gillies, vice president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., is elected president of the Chamber of Commerce.