YEARS AGO FOR DEC. 27
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2017. There are four days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1831: Naturalist Charles Darwin sets out on a round-the-world voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.
1892: The cornerstone is laid for the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City.
1904: James Barrie’s play “Peter Pan: The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” opens at the Duke of York’s Theater in London.
1927: The musical play “Show Boat,” with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opens at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York, beginning a run of 572 performances.
1932: New York City’s Radio City Music Hall first opens.
1945: The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are formally established.
1947: The original version of the puppet character Howdy Doody debuts on NBC’s “Puppet Playhouse.”
1979: Soviet forces seize control of Afghan-istan.
2007: Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, 54, is assassinated in a gun and suicide-bomb attack in Pakistan.
2016: Cavaliers superstar LeBron James is voted AP Male Athlete of the Year after bringing the NBA title to Cleveland.
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: Opponents to the conversion of the former Alliance College in Cambridge Springs, Pa., into a women’s prison say they will challenge the state’s latest efforts to bypass local zoning regulations.
Leon Stennis, who had been religion editor for The Vindicator since 1974, is named news editor in the public relations department of Youngstown State University.
The Ohio Board of Education says the Legislature should require parochial school students to pass the same ninth-grade proficiency tests given to public school students. The recommendation is attracting strong opposition from church school leaders.
1977: Mayor-elect J. Phillip Richley names Stanley Peterson, a former FBI agent, as his police chief and says he expects Peterson to reorganize a police department in need of discipline.
The Seventh District Court of Appeals negates a common pleas court injunction and says the city of East Liverpool has the right to lay off seven firemen and six police officers for lack of money.
Tammi Allen of Warren Harding High School is crowned queen of the Y-Teen formal dance at Packard Music Hall. Pam Howell of Howland, last year’s queen, places the crown on Tammi’s head.
1967: Pfc. Cornell McKnight, a Youngstown Army medic who is home recovering from shrapnel wounds received in Vietnam, is seriously injured when his car crashes into a tree on Dunlap Avenue.
Three Republican members of Youngstown City Council, William Bryant, Emanuel Catsoules and Jack C. Hunter, are sworn in at the Mahoning County Courthouse. Four Democrats – John Franken, Herman Starks, Corry Dama and John Knapp – and Council President John Hudzik are sworn in at City Hall.
1942: Mahoning County Coroner David Hauser rules justifiable homicide in the Christmas Day death of Warren Wampole, 42, who was shot by his stepson, Winfield Sloan, while Wampole was trying to drive his car into Sloan’s home.
Lt. George C. Brainard Jr., son of the president of General Fireproofing Co., is one of the officers on a three-day mission into the Guadalcanal jungle to wipe out two Japanese artillery units.
Two soldiers, one a deserter and the other AWOL, escape from the Youngstown city jail after forcing the turnkey into a cell at the point of his own gun.