Monday, November 27, 2006
Today is Monday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2006. There are 34 days left in the year. On this date in 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, are shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.
In 1701, astronomer Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius temperature scale, is born in Uppsala, Sweden. In 1901, the U.S. Army War College is established in Washington. In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad begins service at New York's Pennsylvania Station. In 1942, during World War II, the French navy at Toulon scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. In 1945, Gen. George C. Marshall is named special U.S. envoy to China to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists. In 1953, playwright Eugene O'Neill dies in Boston at age 65. In 1970, Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, is slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest. In 1973, the Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned. In 1983, 183 people are killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas airport. In 1989, 107 people are killed when a bomb blamed by police on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian jetliner.
November 27, 1981: A historical marker saluting James Heaton, founder of Niles, is erected next to the Niles Dollar Bank. Heaton built his log cabin home in what is now Heaton Park on Vienna Ave. in 1806 and manufactured the first bar of iron in Ohio three years later.
The Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce says it will support the Western Reserve Transit Authority's 2-mill levy, but only if the authority takes steps to be more efficient.
Eight people who spent Thanksgiving night camped in a park across from the White House to protest the plight of the homeless and President Reagan's budget cuts are arrested peacefully by U.S. Park Police.
November 27, 1966: The new St. John's Greek Orthodox Church on Glenwood Ave. in Boardman is open.
Bishop Theodosios, head of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Pittsburgh, presides at closing ceremonies at the old church on Woodland Ave.
The Bitter End Singers present a concert of folk, Dixieland and rock 'n' roll at Stambaugh Auditorium for Youngstown University students. The quintet has appeared twice at the Johnson White House and recently accompanied the first lady on a tour of the West.
Advertisement: 88-cents toy sale at Strouss: Soldier's helmet and pistol; friction motor Highway Patrol car; boxing gloves, fingerpaint kit, 19-piece cookware set.
November 27, 1956: The Greater Youngstown Safety Council will back an attack against traffic accidents in cooperation with the National Safety Council. Manager Charles Vimmerstedt seeks the aid of local civic and service clubs.
The Mahoning County engineer and the planning director will give further study to two different plans for sewage treatment plants in Boardman.
& quot;Evelyn and her Combo, & quot; a group of Youngstown's best-known women musicians, will play at the annual Alias Santa Claus show at Stambaugh Auditorium. Members of the quartet are Virginia Kelley, Frances Orr, Mae Fitch and Evelyn Blake.
November 27, 1931: James E. Jones, Youngstown finance director, announces purchase of the Swift & amp; Co. on Commerce St. for 80,000, clearing the way to widen Commerce from 27 feet to a 70-foot thoroughfare.
Youngstown Fire Chief Harry Callan says quick work by city firemen thwarted arsonists who set simultaneous fires at the Renner Building at Commerce and Hazel streets and at a building at 127 W. Federal Street. If the fires had taken hold, more than 1 million in real estate would have been endangered. Two men were seen running from the Renner building, but investigators have no other clues.
Nick Gialdini, 8, is killed and his sister, Carmela, 6, injured in a fire that damaged the family home at 417 S. Market St. in Girard. The fire was started by an overheated furnace.