Today is Monday, Dec. 1, the 336th day of 2008. There are 30 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, Dec. 1, the 336th day of 2008. There are 30 days left in the year. On this date in 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus. Mrs. Parks is arrested, sparking a yearlong boycott of the buses by blacks.

In 1824, the presidential election is turned over to the U.S. House of Representatives when a deadlock develops between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay. (Adams ends up the winner.) In 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis closes after seven months and some 20 million visitors. In 1913, the first drive-in automobile service station, built by Gulf Refining Company opens in Pittsburgh. In 1921, the Navy flies the first nonrigid dirigible to use helium; the C-7 travels from Hampton Roads, Va., to Washington, D.C. In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin conclude their Tehran conference. In 1958, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Flower Drum Song” opens on Broadway. In 1969, the U.S. government holds its first draft lottery since World War II. In 1992, in Mineola, N.Y., Amy Fisher is sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison for shooting and seriously wounding Mary Jo Buttafuoco. (Fisher serves seven years.) In 2000, Vicente Fox is sworn in as president of Mexico, ending 71 years of ruling-party domination.

December 1, 1983: A U.S. Senate subcommittee schedules three days of hearings in Washington to investigate organized crime, with a focus on Cleveland, Youngstown, Detroit and Buffalo.

Trumbull County Sheriff Richard Jakmas will enter the 1984 election year with a campaign war chest of $39,429.

Warren Safety-Service Director Stephen Papalas says the city will respond to a surge in arsons by creating a special arson investigation squad staffed by firefighter and police detectives.

December 1, 1968: Youngstown’s tax value for 1968 drops a shocking $9.6 million from the 1967 figure of $294 million. Much of the value was lost to construction of freeways in the city and clearing urban renewal land in the area of Youngstown State University.

Bob Babich, a senior from Campbell Memorial is named most valuable player on the Miami University football team. The award is presented to Babich by Miami head coach Bo Schembechler.

The toll of national traffic deaths inches past 500 in the third day of the long Thanksgiving weekend.

December 1, 1958: The Most Rev. Joseph Schmondiuk, auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Byzantine Rite, Diocese of Philadelphia, celebrates the first Byzantine rite mass at Youngstown’s new St. Columba Cathedral.

Two key figures in the Local 377 Teamsters election controversy and a Warren racketeer under deportation orders are among some 100 witnesses who will be called to tell the Senate Rackets Committee about alleged gangland infiltration of the coin-operated machine business.

The national observance of the long Thanksgiving weekend is marred by 443 traffic deaths and 51 deaths to fire.

December 1, 1933: More than 300 women are registered for CWA jobs in Youngstown as the first of those jobs are being filled. Thousands of men have been given CWA jobs in the city.

Chaney High gridders defeat East High, 19-0, before 6,000 fans in the final game of the 1933 scholastic football season.

Automobile sales in November in Mahoning County are the highest for the month since 1930, with 141 pleasure cars and 16 trucks sold. A year earlier, 42 cars and nine trucks were sold during November.