Today is Friday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2018. There are three days left in the year.

Today is Friday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2018. There are three days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1612: Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observes the planet Neptune, but mistakes it for a star.

1694: Queen Mary II of England dies after more than five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III.

1832: John C. Calhoun becomes the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down because of differences with President Andrew Jackson.

1895: The Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Louis, have the first public showing of their movies in Paris.

1945: Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance.

1981: Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American “test-tube” baby, is born in Norfolk, Va.

1999: Clayton Moore, television’s “Lone Ranger, dies in West Hills, Calif., at 85.

2017: Twelve people die in a Bronx apartment building fire, the deadliest residential fire to hit New York City in at least a quarter century. ( Officials said it was caused by a 3-year-old boy playing with stove burners. A 13th victim died of his injuries days later.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Two sites in Youngstown and two in Lords- town remain in the running for a $60 million super-maximum prison planned by the state of Ohio.

A 25-year-old Youngstown woman serving 5 to 25 years for manslaughter will be permitted to attend a private viewing of her parents and five children who died in a Dec. 22 fire in Youngstown, but she will not be permitted to attend the funeral.

The Mahoning Valley Management Association, which once had 4,500 members, more than any similar organization in the world, and which flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, is disbanding. The last 91 members of the club agree to donate a majority of the club’s assets to the YMCA’s Camp Fitch.

1978: Youngstown firefighters rescue Miles Reed, 56, from the second floor of his burning home on Fleming Street.

Youngstown Municipal Airport is slated to receive a new radar system, one that is designed to reduce midair collisions such as that at San Diego that killed 144 people. That crash involved a 727 jetliner and a twin-engine Cessna in which Martin Kazy, a pilot instructor from Lake Milton, was flying.

A new Ohio law gives police and courts more power to combat domestic abuse and increases the penalties.

1968: A crowd of 1,500 gives three standing ovations to 100 young singers who participated in “Sing Out Youngstown” at Calvary Temple. Jeanne Weickenand is the director.

A rapid thaw and more than an inch and a half of rain in 24 hours turns local streams, ditches and sewers into turbulent freshets that flood homes and streets.

The Rev. Stephen Pressey, former curate of St. James in Cleveland, is named vicar of St. Rocco’s Episcopal Church.

1943: During Youngstown’s three-day Christmas holiday, 2,500 soldiers, sailors and marines visited Central YMCA in Youngstown for special events.

Tech Sgt. Rudy Fabec is home on furlough near McKinley Heights after spending three years in the armed forces. He has been in the Caribbean Sea area for many months.

Mrs. Edward Welsh Jr., Genesee Drive, welcomes Delta Delta Delta Sorority alumnae for a delightful bridge supper at her home. Three pledges are guests: Jean Dalrymple, Donna Jean Richard and Pat Thomas.