Monday, November 30, 2009
Today is Monday, Nov. 30, the 334th day of 2009. There are 31 days left in the year. On this date in 1782, the United States and Britain sign preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
In 1803, Spain completes the process of ceding Louisiana to France, which had sold it to the United States. In 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens — better known as Mark Twain — is born in Florida, Mo. In 1874, British statesman Sir Winston Churchill is born at Blenheim Palace. In 1900, Irish writer Oscar Wilde dies in Paris at age 46. In 1936, London’s famed Crystal Palace, constructed for the Great Exhibition of 1851, is destroyed in a fire. In 1949, Chinese communist troops capture Chongqing. In 1966, the former British colony of Barbados becomes independent. In 1981, the United States and the Soviet Union open negotiations in Geneva aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe. In 1999, the opening of a 135-nation trade gathering in Seattle is disrupted by at least 40,000 demonstrators, some of whom clashed with police. In 2004, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announces his resignation.
November 30, 1984: A leak from a chemical tanker stopped in Route 11 near I-80 causes the evacuation of 200 Girard and Liberty Township residents from their homes.
The unexpected resignation of E. Bradley Jones as chairman of LTV Steel Corp., the nation’s No. 2 steelmaker, is seen as another blow to the Mahoning Valley’s glimmering hopes of remaining a viable force in the basic steel industry.
Samuel E. Paul, a stockbroker for Prescott, Ball and Turbin, is elected president of the Austintown Community Council, succeeding Edward Price.
November 30, 1969: Two armed bandits shoot a customer at the Lawson Dairy Store on McGuffey Road after hitting another and threatening two women clerks. They escape with about $500 from a cash register.
Mahoning County commission President George Bindas launches a battle to get 20 percent of state sales tax revenue for local governments.
Youngstown Hospital Association increases its room rates at both its North and South units $5 a day. The new rates will be $47 a day for a bed in a ward, $51 for semi-private and $58 for private.
November 30, 1959: Major crimes in Youngstown declined by about 10 percent in the first nine months of the year, the FBI says.
Arson investigators are probing a $5,500 fire set by vandals who broke into the McKinley School. It is the most costly incident of school vandalism in city school history.
November 30, 1934: Nine thousand people, carrying newspapers and magazines to put on the wet seats of South High’s stadium, see Rayen School’s mud-smeared football warriors flash to a 19-0 victory over South, carrying with it the city championship.
The city notifies Youngstown and St. Elizabeth hospitals that the city will not pay for any charity care unless the patient is provably on relief or is recommended by the city physician.