Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2010. There are 34 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1901: The U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C.

1909: Author, poet and critic James Agee is born in Knoxville, Tenn.

1910: New York’s Pennsylvania Station officially opens, handling regular through train service from the Pennsylvania Railroad.

1970: Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, is slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.

1978: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, are shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.

1989: A bomb blamed on drug traffickers destroys a Colombian Avianca Boeing 727, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground.

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1985: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. demands to know why a federal grand jury was not called to investigate claims by a former Cleveland mob boss that Charles Carabbia was killed on the orders of rival gangsters “Jimmy” Prato and Joseph N. Naples.

Two Youngstown State University players — wide receiver Rick Shepas and punter Nick Xides — are selected to the All-Ohio Valley Conference football team.

1970: Sgt. 1.C. Daniel Jurich, former Campbell man who has been an Army career soldier for 16 years, participated in a recent futile rescue attempt at the POW camp in Son Tay, near Hanoi, his family learned.

Benjamin O. Davis Sr., the first black general in the U.S. armed forces, dies in the Great Lakes Naval Hospital at 93.

About 30 sheriff’s deputies, their wives and children establish a picket line in front of the county jail protesting what they said is the county commissioners unwillingness to grant pay hikes.

1960: Youngstown’s Edward J. DeBartolo is completing the purchase of the Randall Park track to add to his ThistleDown and Cranwood holdings.

President Eisenhower’s National Goals Commission recommends a detailed plan of improvement in American Education that will double the cost of public and private education by 1970.

1935: Philip M. Moore, Youngstown agent for State Life Insurance, is seeking nominating petitions for the congressman-at-large seat of the late Charles V. Truax on the Townsend Party ticket.

Lionel Evans tells the South Side Merchants & Civic Association that when he becomes mayor of Youngstown Jan. 1 he will begin eliminating unessential workers at City Hall and predicts he will be a very unpopular man in 60 to 90 days.

Leo Harrison, 24, identified as the man who held Youngstown Detective Harry Rowe when he was shot by John Nazdan, is being brought from Cincinnati, where he was arrested under the alias of “Mike Vince.”