YEARS AGO FOR DEC. 2

Today is Sunday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2018. There are 29 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1823: President James Monroe outlines his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.

1859: Militant abolitionist John Brown is hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry the previous October.

1939: New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field (later LaGuardia Airport) goes into operation as an airliner from Chicago lands at one minute past midnight.

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1993: The Warren health department is trying to corral a man who has AIDS, has infected two women and a baby and says he’d like to infect as many people as possible. Deputy Health Commissioner George Lockwood says he’d like to put the man’s picture on a billboard.

Investor Victor Posner, former owner of Sharon Steel, and his son, Steven, have been barred by U.S. District Judge Milton Pollack in New York from serving as officers or directors of any public company.

1978: The Legislature sends to Gov. James A. Rhodes a bill under which the state will provide $3 million to five communities for economic development, including $525,000 for rail lines to a proposed Kmart Corp. distribution center in Bazetta Township in Trumbull County.

A team representing ICX Aviation Inc. probably will begin final negotiations with representatives of the Soviet Union in January to finally clear the way for building Americanized versions of the YAK-40 jet transport at Youngstown Municipal Airport, ICX President Dale P. Lewis says.

The Youngstown Playhouse will present its interpretation of Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” featuring Loren Schryver, Robert Vargo, Richard Smile, Ed Smith, David Holmquist and Ed Smith.

1968: ABC TV’s science editor, Jules Bergman, will speak at the Youngstown State University Artist Lecture Series on “Conquering Space and Saving the Earth” in the C.J. Strouss Auditorium.

Fifty Rayen School students march from the school down Fifth Avenue to Federal Street to protest the closing of schools for the year due to a lack of funds.

A short circuit touches off a two-alarm fire that gutted the kitchen of the Italian Restaurant on Hazel Street and caused extensive damage to adjacent businesses. The loss is estimated at $150,000.

Mahoning Common Pleas Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt rules that the city of Youngstown must issue a building permit for a gasoline station at Fifth Avenue and Federal Street or take action to appropriate the land in question.

1943: A 20-year-old Struthers man who struck and killed Joseph Leslie, 6, on Youngstown’s North Side had been on probation for manslaughter in a 1942 traffic accident in which Donald Stark, also 6, was struck and killed.

Two Camp Reynolds soldiers are killed instantly when their car overturned on a sharp curve leading to a bridge on the Sharpsville-Greenville Road, five miles west of camp.