Today is Saturday, Nov. 29, the 334th day of 2008. There are 32 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Nov. 29, the 334th day of 2008. 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 1530, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, onetime adviser to England’s King Henry VIII, dies. In 1864, a Colorado militia kills at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre. In 1908, New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. is born in New Haven, Conn. In 1924, Italian composer Giacomo Puccini dies in Brussels, Belgium, before he could complete his opera “Turandot.” (It is finished by Franco Alfano.) In 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews. In 1961, Enos the chimp is launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbits earth twice before returning. In 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announces he is leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.

November 29, 1983: The wives of city councilmen Richard Hughey, D-1st, and Herman P. Starks, D-2nd, are cashing in 12 weeks and 26 weeks of vacation time, respectively, that they say they have accumulated while serving as council aides.

A group of parents tells the Youngstown Board of Education that they favor magnet schools at the high school level.

Trumbull County commissioners approve a budget of $135,000 for 1984 for the Trumbull County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

November 29, 1968: The first-ever ecumenical Thanksgiving service at St. Columba Cathedral is attended by 300 Protestants and Catholics.

Televisions, radios and stereo components valued at $30,000 that were taken in a burglary at Exhibitors Service Co., 3733 Hubbard Road, are recovered by police in a barn just outside the Hubbard limits.

November 29, 1958: Seven inches of steady snow on the Friday after Thanksgiving create one of the longest rush hour traffic jams downtown Youngstown has seen since the blizzard of 1950.

Wladislau Matysic, 51, a P&LE section hand cleaning ice and snow from railroad switches near the Struthers yard, is killed by a passing train when he slipped on the ice.

Joseph P. Kittredge, 87, of Highland Road, Sharon, who gained fame for many inventions to improve the process of manufacturing steel railroad car wheels, dies in Sharon General Hospital of a stroke.

November 29, 1933: A Youngstown Teachers Credit Union is formed to lend money to school teachers and board of education employees at an interest rate of 1 percent per month.

The Pennsylvania Legislature approves creation of a liquor control board that will operate state stores to sell liquor when prohibition is lifted in the state.

An exhibition of portraits painted by D. Norman Tillman, local Negro artist who has attained a high place in art circles, will be exhibited at the West Federal YMCA. Tillman studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the South Boston School of Fine Arts.

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