This Day in History

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2010. There are 37 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1863: The Civil War Battle of Lookout Mountain begins in Tennessee; Union forces succeed in taking the mountain from the Confederates.

1859: British naturalist Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species,” which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection.

1944: During World War II, U.S. bombers based on Saipan attack Tokyo in the first raid against the Japanese capital by land-based planes.

1950: The musical “Guys and Dolls,” based on the writings of Damon Runyon and featuring songs by Frank Loesser, opens on Broadway.

1963: Jack Ruby shoots and mortally wounds Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy.

1971: Hijacker “D.B. Cooper” parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 over Washington state with $200,000 dollars in ransom — his fate remains unknown.

1987: The United States and the Soviet Union agree on terms to scrap short- and medium-range missiles.

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1985: Two Mahoning Valley organized crime kingpins had rival mobster Charles Carabbia killed because, among other things, they suspected him of keeping $60,000 earmarked for James A. Traficant Jr., a Cleveland mob boss tells the FBI.

Bill Narduzzi, head coach of Youngstown State University’s football team for 11 seasons, is told that Athletic Director Joe Malmisur has recommended that Narduzzi’s contract not be renewed.

1970: Atty. Henry C. Robinson, 53, of Boardman is unanimously recommended by the Mahoning County Republican Executive Committee for appointment as county judge to succeed the late Judge Bruce R. Black.

General Motors announces an average $24 increase in the price of new cars on the same day its new contract with the United Auto Workers goes into effect.

Youngstown police follow footprints in the snow from the burglary of a house at 42 N. Hine St. to the burglar, who is arrested at Augusta Avenue near Penn Avenue.

1960: A.S. Glosssbrenner, president and CEO of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., predicts a long and prosperous future for the Youngstown district and the steel industry.

Shoppers can begin their nightly Christmas shopping the Friday after Thanksgiving when stores will open at 9:30 a.m. and will remain open until 9 p.m.

The government estimates that it takes $220 to $280 a month to support a retired couple aged 65 or more on a modest but adequate urban living level.

1935: Marcel Salzinger, internationally known baritone, will open the season’s concerts at the Butler Art galleries. Local soprano, Grace Straw, will also perform.

A crowd of 12,000 sees the Rayen School gridders defeat South High, 7-0, in the 23rd annual meeting between Youngstown’s oldest scholastic teams.

Steve Veljacic, 58, a hired man on the farm of John Pleasac, Poland Center-New Middletown Road, dies of severe burns after being found about a mile from the farmhouse. Authorities are baffled.