Today is Tuesday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2005. There are 32 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2005. There are 32 days left in the year. On this date in 1963, President Johnson names a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
In 1924, Italian composer Giacomo Puccini dies in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot." (It is finished by Franco Alfano.) In 1929, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd radios that he'd made the first airplane flight over the South Pole. In 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews. In 1952, President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower keeps his campaign promise to visit Korea to assess the ongoing conflict. In 1961, "Enos" the chimp is launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbits earth twice before returning. In 1964, the U.S. Roman Catholic Church institutes sweeping changes in the liturgy, including the use of English instead of Latin. In 1981, actress Natalie Wood drowns in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, Calif., at age 43.
November 29, 1980: Youngstown police seize an estimated $10,000 worth of stolen goods in raids on two suspected fencing operations on South Forest Ave. The loot will be put on display for victims of recent burglaries to see.
The Quadland Corp. of Springfield has offered to sell Hamilton Woods on the Lake Hamilton shoreline to the village of Poland for $126,000. The woods encompasses 53 of the 783 acres Quadland purchased from Jones & amp; Laughlin Steel Corp. in January. The price works out to $2,300 an acre, slightly more than Quadland paid.
Unemployment in the Youngstown-Warren area falls from 12.8 percent in September to 11.04 percent in October, reflecting a strong showing in retail goods and services jobs.
Carolyn Ivey is crowned "Miss Cinderella" at the Cinderella Ball sponsored by the Junior Civic League at the Idora Park Ballroom.
November 29, 1965: Jesse Shwayder, 83, founder of the Samsonite Corp., announces an immediate no-smoking ban at the company's plant in Denver, Colo., which covers all 3,000 employees at the plant, even during their lunch breaks. Charles Griffin, United Rubber Workers local president, says the policy is "unfair, unjust and discriminatory. Next we'll be told what we can eat or drink."
Suzanne Rowan of Canfield and Virginia Meholin of Steubenville win district Prince of Peace speaking contests and will compete in the finals at Otterbein College.
James W. Keating of Warren is named co-chairman of the 1966 meeting of the Ohio Youth Traffic Safety Conference that will be held in Columbus.
November 29, 1955: Youngstown City Hall will close at 1 p.m. for the funeral of Thomas H. Pemberton, city parks superintendent, who died after a heart attack at his home. He was 68. Mayor Frank X. Kryzan asks that flags at all city property be flown at half-mast for 30 days.
Lake Central Airlines, which operates at Youngstown Municipal Airport, receives a permanent operating certificate from the Civil Aeronautics Board to serve Youngstown and 15 other cities.
A United Press poll of state level Democratic politicians indicates that Ohio Gov. Frank J. Lausche is no more than a remote possibility for his party's 1956 presidential nomination.
The body of Marine Sgt. William F. Hottinger, son of Mrs. Marguerite Hottinger of /Sheets St., Youngstown, is laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Sgt. Hottinger died while a captive of the Chinese Communists during the Korean War. His body was transferred from Communist Territory to Japan, where it was identified before being returned to the United States.
November 29, 1930: A shortage approaching $1.7 million in the 1931 tax needs of the Youngstown and the city school district is seen as the result of severe budget cuts made by the Mahoning County Tax Commission and prospective tax delinquencies.
A 16-year-old Youngstown youth asks the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to annul his marriage to a 21 year old woman, saying he was under her spell when he accompanied her to New Bedford, Pa., where the couple was married after he lied about his age.
American engineers, operating under the largest contract in engineering history, are overseeing construction of the Soviet Union's new steel city in the remotest depth of Russia and at the base of the most highly concentrated deposit of iron ore in the world. The Soviet five-year plan calls for construction of the largest steel-making center on earth.