YEARS AGO FOR DEC. 15

Today is Saturday, Dec. 15, the 349th day of 2018. There are 16 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1791: The Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, goes into effect after ratification by Virginia.

1890: Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members are killed in Grand River, S.D., during a confrontation with Indian police.

1938: Groundbreaking for the Jefferson Memorial takes place in Washington, D.C., with President Franklin D. Roosevelt taking part in the ceremony.

1960: Teflon-coated skillets first go on sale, at Macy’s flagship store in New York City.

1961: Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death by an Israeli court for crimes against humanity. (Eichmann was hanged 51/2 months later.)

1967: The Silver Bridge between Gallipolis, Ohio, and Point Pleasant, W. Va., collapses into the Ohio River, killing 46 people.

1995: European Union leaders meeting in Madrid, Spain, choose “euro” as the name of the new single European currency.

2013: Nelson Mandela is laid to rest in his childhood hometown, ending a 10-day mourning period for South Africa’s first black president.

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: A plan by several Warren city councilmen to strip council President Joe H. Williams of the power to appoint committees and committee chairmen is racially motivated, Williams alleges. A few members of council agree.

Youngstown City Council members say a proposal for a daytime curfew on school days proposed by Superintendent Alfred Tutela wouldn’t deter truancy unless there were sufficient resources for proper enforcement.

U.S. Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, says that eight times between 1948 and 1952, radiation was released on the ground or into the air in the western United States to test how a cloud of fallout moved.

1978: A federal grand jury in Cleveland indicts four Columbiana County truck drivers accused of vandalizing a truck that was on the road while the Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers had called a strike.

Treasury agents arrest four Youngstown men on warrants charging illegal possession of firearms, including an M-2 carbine, which is a fully automated submachine gun.

A. Irvine Kinston, 77, retired Youngstown banker who began his career at the age of 15 as a messenger and worked his way up to president and CEO of Dollar Savings and Trust Co., dies at his Brantford Drive home.

1968: Mahoning County Prosecutor-elect Vincent Gilmartin names three assistant prosecutors: Edward A. Flask, Lloyd R. Haynes and Michael W. Kosach.

George P. Millich, formerly of Youngstown, an assembly mechanic, and Dolores J. Bender, formerly of Poland, a secretary in the engineering department of North American Rockwell’s Space Division, are playing roles in the assembly of the Apollo spacecraft in which U.S. astronauts will travel to the moon.

The Trumbull County Children’s Home, its front and rear yards already eliminated to provide parking for Trumbull Memorial Hospital, will be razed as soon as a new home can be built.

1943: Pvt. Kenneth A. Jeffries, 19, of 105 Wick Oval, Youngstown, is reported among 16 soldiers killed in the crash of a bomber near Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Law Director John Willo announces the last two land-acquisition agreements needed to complete the city’s $4 million street-widening program have been signed by property owners and the city.

Youngstown’s three hospitals are filled to capacity – although some decline is reported – in the mild form of a respiratory ailment similar to influenza, which has reached epidemic proportions in the city.