Today is Saturday, Dec. 29, the 363rd day of 2018. There are two days left in the year.

Today is Saturday, Dec. 29, the 363rd day of 2018. There are two days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1170: Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is slain in Canterbury Cathedral by knights loyal to King Henry II.

1808: The 17th president of the United States, Andrew Johnson, is born in Raleigh, N.C.

1845: Texas is admitted as the 28th state.

1890: The Wounded Knee massacre takes place in South Dakota as an estimated 300 Sioux Indians are killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.

1940: During World War II, Germany drops incendiary bombs on London, setting off what would become known as “The Second Great Fire of London.”

1975: A bomb explodes in the main terminal of New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people.

1978: During the Gator Bowl, Ohio State University coach Woody Hayes punches Clemson player Charlie Bauman, who’d intercepted an Ohio State pass. (Hayes was fired by Ohio State the next day.)

2006: Word reaches the United States of the execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

2017: Puerto Rico authorities say nearly half of the power customers in the U.S. territory still lack electricity, more than three months after Hurricane Maria.

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: The Woodside Inpatient Futures Committee releases a 25-page report recommending that patients at the psychiatric hospital on Youngstown’s South Side be shifted to private caregivers and the hospital be closed.

This is the last day of full production at the Sealy Stearns & Foster furniture plant in Columbiana. The company, which has been in business since 1921, manufactured sofa beds.

The Harlem Globetrotters delight their fans during an appearance at Youngstown State University’s Beeghly Center.

1978: County Engineer Michael Fitas warns Mahoning County commissioners that the county’s bridges are in such disrepair that they are a critical safety problem and there is not enough money to make repairs.

The Ohio Edison Co. will ask the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for a $125 million per year rate hike.

Atty. Don E. Tucker, vice president and general counsel of Commercial Shearing Inc., is elected chairman of the board of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce.

1968:Some 60,000 Youngstown district workers in basic steel and fabricating will get bigger paychecks and longer vacations under a new United Steelworkers union contract.

Gale force winds from a massive storm front west of Youngstown slams into the district, causing thousands of dollars in damage to the New Middletown Plaza opened two years ago. A 100-foot antenna tower is blown down at the Uptown Cab Co., 2626 Hillman St.

The Ohio Turnpike Commission says free coffee will once again be served New Year’s Eve at 16 service plaza restaurants.

1943: Federal Government employees in Youngstown will put in a full day Jan. 1, but most other public agencies – state and local – will be closed New Year’s Day.

Marine Pvt. Andrew Polmaskitch Jr., 21, of Youngstown is reported killed in action in Tarawa.

Contributions to the Community War Chest campaign total $693,028, which is $9,946 over the goal. Judge John Ford is re-elected president of the Community Chest.