YEARS AGO FOR DEC. 30

Today is Sunday, Dec. 30, the 364th day of 2018. There is one day left in the year.

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On this date in:

1813: British troops burn Buffalo, N.Y., during the War of 1812.

1853: The United States and Mexico sign a treaty under which the U.S. agrees to buy some 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico for $10 million in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase.

1860: Ten days after South Carolina seceded from the union, the state militia seizes the United States Arsenal in Charleston.

1916: Grigory Rasputin, the so-called “Mad Monk” who wielded considerable influence with Czar Nicholas II, is killed by Russian noblemen in St. Petersburg.

1922: Vladimir Lenin proclaims the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which would last nearly seven decades before dissolving in December 1991.

1936: The United Auto Workers union stages its first “sit-down” strike at the General Motors Fisher Body Plant No. 1 in Flint, Mich. (The strike lasted until Feb. 11, 1937.)

1940: California’s first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena, is officially opened by Gov. Culbert L. Olson.

1942: Near-riot of bobby-soxers greets the opening of Frank Sinatra’s singing engagement at the Paramount Theater in New York’s Times Square.

1965: Ferdinand Marcos is inaugurated for his first term as president of the Philippines.

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: In two cases, the Ohio Supreme Court rules that homeowners have no duty to remove snow from sidewalks and are not responsible for injuries due to falls and upholds a state law requiring women to get counseling at least 24 hours before getting an abortion.

Andre Coleman, a former Hickory High standout from Hermitage, Pa., is named Most Valuable Player in the Kansas State 52-17 victory over Wyoming in the Copper Bowl.

In an opinion column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Mahoning County Commissioner David Engler says most local residents are tired of Atty. Don L. Hanni Jr.’s style of politics. Hanni’s response is to invite Engler to run against him for chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party.

1978: Woody Hayes is fired after 28 years as coach of the Ohio State University football team a day after he struck a Clemson University player in the face in the final minutes of Clemson’s 17-15 defeat of the Buckeyes in the Gator Bowl.

Copperweld Steel Corp. of Warren is certified by the American Society of Metallurgical Engineers to produce high quality steel bars for nuclear power plant components.

About 50 members of United Steelworkers Local 1462 picket the Brier Hills offices of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. to protest the company’s plan to phase out operations at Brier Hill, which will cost 1,200 jobs by the end of 1979.

1968: Youngstown native Atty. Richard McLaughlin, general counsel for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, is praised in a Vindicator editorial for his role in ending a two-month strike by United Steelworkers at General Fireproofing.

Rising waters in the lowlands east of Mesopotamia in northern Trumbull County necessitate the evacuation of the Paul Johnson family by Red Cross officials and the Middlefield Fire Department.

Scuba divers from the Shenango Valley Underwater Rescue Squad go into Yankee Lake to search for the body of Richard Bean, a Hartford Scoutmaster, who apparently struck his head on a rock and drowned while trying to right a canoe.

A $17,700 federal grant has been approved for scholarships at Youngstown State University for students pursuing law- enforcement careers.

1943: The National Sanitary Co. of Salem is one of five companies sharing an order for 50,000 bathtubs for war-housing projects.

Youngstown has 513 cases of measles reported in December, says Dr. Robert Mossman, city health commissioner.

A 48-hour work week in the Youngstown labor area is delayed by Regional War Manpower Commission Director Robert Goodwin.