YEARS AGO FOR DECEMBER 20

Today is Wednesday, Dec. 20, the 354th day of 2017. There are 11 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1812: German authors Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm publish the first volume of the first edition of their collection of folk stories, “Children’s and Household Tales.”

1924: Adolf Hitler is released from prison after serving nine months for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.

1946: The Frank Capra film “It’s A Wonderful Life,” starring James Stewart and Donna Reed, has a preview showing for charity in New York, a day before its official world premiere.

1976: Richard J. Daley, the mayor of Chicago since 1955, dies in office at age 74.

1995: In Bosnia-Herzegovina, NATO begins its peacekeeping mission, taking over from the United Nations.

2012: The State Department acknowledges major weaknesses in security and errors in judgment exposed in a scathing independent report on the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, assault on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya.

2016:President Barack Obama designates the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing.

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1992: Janine Marie Carnino-Haghverdi and her four children, Nicholas, 7; Maryem, 14; Louis, 17; and Teddy, 15, get out of Iran after 10 years and are living in Brookfield.

Youngstown State University turns a 28-0 blowout into a 28-28 bid to repeat as NCAA Division 1-AA national champs, but loses to Marshall, 31-28, on a last-second field goal by a kicker who had never tried a college field goal.

A 13-member task force appointed by Gov. George Voinovich is searching for a potential site for a low-level radioactive waste dump. Ohio is part of a six-state compact, and one of those states must provide a dump site.

1977: A C.D. Ambrosia Trucking Co. tractor-trailer goes out of control on the Madison Avenue Expressway and slams into the home of Mrs. Anna Stahl, 515 Andrews Ave., reducing the home to rubble. Mrs. Stahl was injured.

Mahoning County commissioners apply for a $100,000 Economic Development Agency grant to finance a study of how to revitalize the Mahoning Valley economy.

Three men disarm a guard and rob the Dollar Savings & Trust Co.’s Belmont Avenue branch. FBI agents arrest three suspects about two hours later on Wirt Street, about eight blocks from the bank.

1967: A retired Youngstown contractor, Clarence Hill, 60, and his wife, Harriet, 63, are killed instantly when their car is rammed broadside by another car at West Boulevard and Shields Road in Boardman Township.

The Youngstown Board of Control authorizes $3 million for construction of the Madison Avenue Expressway.

Youngstown police warn parents to help combat a new teen craze of swallowing an asthmatic compound that may cause death or insanity.

1942: Gasoline panel members of Mahoning County rationing boards are checking motorists holding “B” and “C” coupon books. They are checking basketball games and nightclubs for violators.

The Mahoning County Red Cross sets a record in the final day of blood collection for men in the armed forces with 153 pints from district donors. The three-day total is 407 pints.

Berlin Reservoir gates will be closed Feb. 1 and the new 27-billion gallon reservoir will begin filling up to assure adequate water for Mahoning Valley industry during next summer’s dry season.