YEARS AGO FOR DEC. 6

Today is Thursday, Dec. 6, the 340th day of 2018. There are 25 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1790: Congress moves to Philadelphia from New York.

1865: The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, is ratified as Georgia becomes the 27th state to endorse it.

1884: Army engineers complete construction of the Washington Monument by setting an aluminum capstone atop the obelisk.

1907: The worst mining disaster in U.S. history occurs as 362 men and boys die in a coal mine explosion in Monongah, W.Va.

1923: A presidential address is broadcast on radio for the first time as President Coolidge speaks to a joint session of Congress.

1989: Fourteen women are shot to death at the University of Montreal’s school of engineering by a man who then took his own life.

2008: President-elect Barack Obama says in a Saturday radio and internet address that he’d asked his economic team for a recovery plan to save or create more than 2 million jobs.

2017: President Donald Trump declares Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital.

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1993: Thomas Engstrom and James Cherrington are buying the 75-year-old Paramount Theater building on West Federal Street and say only that they have unspecified plans that include its restoration and reopening it as a theater.

The Packard Electric Division of General Motors and IUE Local 717, which represents about 6,700 workers in the Warren area, are reported close to a new local agreement.

A group of Poland Village residents are trying to save the century-old “Caleb-Lewis House” at 9 College St. by moving it.

1978: Dorothy Lynch of Youngstown receives confirmation from the State Department that her mother, Virginia Taylor, 87, formerly of Warren, was among those who died in the mass suicide at the Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana.

Girard Fire Capt. Ralph Ruggiero is being credited with saving the life of Oliver Wick, 24, who was asleep in a burning house at 408 S. State St.

A motion by a group of Minnesota nuns that owns 4,000 shares of stock calling for Lykes Corp. to commit itself to helping reopen the Campbell Works of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. fails, but the nuns are encouraged that the resolution got 47.8 percent of the vote.

1968: Mahoning County Joint Vocational School board votes to proceed with the sale of $3.5 million in bonds provided by passage of the vocational school levy in November.

Carolyn Falk, reigning Salem basketball queen, will crown her successor at a dance in the high school cafeteria after the Cardinal Mooney-Salem game.

Cheryl Locke, 18, of Austintown is crowned Miss Mahoning County Junior Miss in a competition involving 15 girls at Boardman High School. The contestants select Trudy Stevens, a senior at The Rayen School, as the most popular girl.

1943: Two years after Pearl Harbor, Youngstown and Mahoning County have sent an estimated 24,000 recruits to service training camps.

The recent citywide religious survey reached 125,000 people. Of this number, 11,680 families gave definite information about Protestant church affiliation. About 9,000 Catholic and 750 Jewish families were surveyed.

Namid Club’s December dance party was a festive affair for 35 couples at Stambaugh Auditorium. Hosts and hostesses for the evening were Mr. and Mrs. F. Gibson Head, Dr. and Mrs. V.C. Hart and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Powell.