Thursday, December 27, 2018
Today is Thursday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2018. There are four days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1831: Naturalist Charles Darwin sets out on a round-the-world voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.
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.”
1968: Apollo 8 and its three astronauts make a safe, nighttime splashdown in the Pacific.
1970: The musical play “Hello, Dolly!” closes on Broadway after a run of 2,844 performances.
1979: Soviet forces seize control of Afghanistan. President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown and executed, is replaced by Babrak Karmal.
2001: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld announces that Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners will be taken in the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
2008: Israel bombs security sites in Hamas-ruled Gaza in retaliation for rocket fire aimed at civilians in southern Israeli towns, opening one of the Mideast conflict’s bloodiest assaults in decades.
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1993: Girard Municipal Court Judge Anthony Bernard is ending his 12-year career on the bench and a legal career that spanned almost 50 years. His son, Michael, will assume the judgeship.
Rudolph A. Schlais, general manager of Packard Electric, says 1993 was the most challenging year he’s seen, but Packard still managed to increase its worldwide market share by 2 percent. He says future prospects in China are almost unlimited.
Clem Zumpella, retired Struthers High principal, is the commissioner of the newly formed Metro Athletic Conference, which is comprised of Canfield, Girard, Poland, Salem, Struthers, Niles and Howland.
1978: The Boardman Board of Education slashes the school system’s budget, eliminating 75 jobs and busing for all high school students.
The East Ohio Gas Co. announces plans to spend $2.9 million for capital improvements in its Youngstown-Warren district in 1994.
Triplets are born to Mr. and Mrs. David McCowin of South Beaver Township, Beaver County, Pa., in the Rochester Unit, Medical Center of Beaver Township. They are Rachel Anne, Jarrod Paul and Amanda Leigh.
1968: The three Burdman brothers have taken an option to buy the 13-story Wick Building, a landmark at West Federal and North Phelps streets that was built in 1910, at a purchase price in excess of $300,000.
William L. Spencer is elected president of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce, succeeding Atty. James Bennett Jr.
A 10-year-old Shenango Township girl is in critical condition in St. Francis Hospital after being accidentally shot. Mabel McKinnis and her sister, Mary, were playing with their brother, Daniel, when a 12-gauge shotgun discharged, wounding both girls. Mary is in satisfactory condition.
1943: Henry A. Roemer, chairman of the board of Pittsburgh Steel Co., resigns as an officer and director and is returning to his duties as chairman and president of Sharon Steel Corp.
Several hundred students and 40 teachers, most of them victims of the flu, are absent from public schools as classes resume after Christmas.
Two Leavittsburg men are reported to be among the Navy men killed when two Navy planes collided at sea near Miami, Fla. Dead are Seamen 1st Class Glenn Vessey Jr. and William Perry, aviation ordnance mate 3rd class.