Years Ago

Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2009. There are 40 days left in the year. On this date in 1934, the Cole Porter musical “Anything Goes,” starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, opens on Broadway.

In 1922, Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia is sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. In 1927, picketing strikers at the Columbine Mine in northern Colorado are fired on by state police; six miners are killed. In 1942, the Alaska Highway is formally opened. In 1959, former heavyweight champion boxer and actor Max Baer dies in Hollywood at age 50. In 1969, the Senate votes down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, 55-45, the first such rejection since 1930. In 1973, President Richard Nixon’s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals the existence of an 181‚Ñ2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate. In 1979, a mob attacks the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans. In 1980, 87 people die in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas.

November 21, 1984: James J. Cappy, owner of Cappy Realty, is appointed to succeed Thomas J. Barrett as Boardman Township trustee.

The Youngstown Civil Service Commission overturns the firing of Health Commissioner Neil H. Altman by the Youngstown Board of Health.

A flawed Medicare system and never-ending technological advances are responsible for the increase in medical costs, Dr. Edward Annis, former head of the American and World medical associations, tells the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce annual dinner.

November 21, 1969: Warren school teachers agree to return to the classroom during a hearing before Common Pleas Judge Lynn B. Griffth Jr. on an injunction against a walkout sought by the board of education.

Youngstown Mayor-elect Jack C. Hunter names David A. O’Neil, former 1st Ward councilman, city water commissioner.

November 21, 1959: The federal government will contribute at least $150,000 toward a hospital as part of the new Mahoning County Home. County voters approved a $1.5 million bond issue for construction of the home.

Ohio Gov. Michael DiSalle, accompanied by little Patty Butch of Warren, Ohio Poster Child, signs a proclamation declaring Nov. 22-28 “Muscular Dystrophy Week.”

November 21, 1934: Carl Jagger, 28, father of four, dies of burns suffered when the family’s Youngstown home was destroyed by fire.

Three-year-old Frank Parisi of N. Garland Ave. is rushed to Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh where he is being prepared for an operation to remove a peanut from his lung.

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