Today is Tuesday, Dec. 25, the 359th day of 2018. There are six days left in the year. This is

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 25, the 359th day of 2018. There are six days left in the year. This is Christmas Day.

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A.D. 336: The first known commemoration of Christmas on Dec. 25 takes place in Rome.

1776: Gen. George Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, N.J., during the American Revolutionary War.

1990: The World Wide Web, the system providing quick access to websites over the Internet, is born in Geneva, Switzerland, as computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau create the world’s first hyperlinked webpage.

2006: James Brown, the “Godfather of Soul,” dies in Atlanta at age 73.

2017: In his traditional Christmas message, Pope Francis called for a two-state solution in the Middle East, and prayed that confrontation could be overcome on the Korean Peninsula.

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1993: More than 7,000 students in grades kindergarten through sixth have gotten advice on how to handle money from employees of Dollar Savings and Trust Co. who have been going from school to school in Youngstown and the suburbs.

Slippery Rock University will sponsor three tours to Russia in 1994, one of which will include a trip on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Slippery Rock professors have been escorting tours to Russia since 1972.

A fund has been established at Dollar Bank in Youngstown for the Neely family. Wardell Neely, 71, and five of his young grandchildren were killed in a fire on Glenaven Avenue. Graves have been donated at Tod Homestead Cemetery for all of the victims.

1978: Vindicator Business Editor George R. Reiss writes: “So now finally those doleful warnings of long ago to foes of the Lake Erie-Ohio River Waterway that by killing the waterway they were helping to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs now seems to be coming true.”

The Michigan University Wolverines arrive in California to meet Southern Cal in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day. The team’s Youngstown-area contingent includes: Ed Muransky of Cardinal Mooney, Gene Bell of East Liverpool, Mike Trgovac of Austintown Fitch, assistant coach Jerry Hanlon (former Ursuline High coach), Sanford Washington of South High, Irvin Johnson of Warren Western Reserve and Bill Dufek of Kent.

Dr. James B. Birch retires after 50 years as a Youngstown pediatrician, a span that included battling polio before a vaccine had been developed.

1968: The elevation of Edwin H. Gott and Edgar B. Speer to the two top jobs in giant U.S. Steel Corp. may mean a new lease on life for U.S. Steel’s Ohio Works in Youngstown and the McDonald rolling mill. Both men started their careers at the Ohio Works.

Support of Youngstown Research and Development Co. shareholders is being sought by Seymour Malkin, New Jersey public relations firm which is trying to elect Harold Silvergate, 26-year-old Boston lawyer to the local board.

Strouss’ after-Christmas sale has children Stride Rite shoes for $6.99 a pair and Welsh strollers for $9.98.

1943: The first of 35,000 workers in Little Steel in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys walk off the job signalling a work stoppage expected to spread to 214 basic steel sites across the nation within 24 to 48 hours.

Arch Wilson, 64, Youngstown insurance man and former manager of the once-famous Salow restaurant, dies in St. Elizabeth hospital after a lengthy illness.

More than 60 relatives of 90 prisoners in the Mahoning County jail take advantage of the unprecedented Christmas invitation to share holiday meals with inmates.