Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Nov. 28, the 332nd day of 2010. There are 33 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1520: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.

1909: Sergei Rachmaninoff plays his Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 at its world premiere in New York.

1919: American-born Lady Astor is elected the first female member of the British Parliament.

1942: Nearly 500 people die in a fire that destroys the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston.

1964: The United States launches the space probe Mariner 4 on a course to Mars.

1979: An Air New Zealand DC-10 en route to the South Pole crashes into a mountain in Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard.

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1985: Instead of firing school Superintendent Ronald Schuster, the Girard Board of Education offers him a one-year paid leave of absence and a cash settlement of $65,000.

The American Motors Corp. announces that it will stop making the Jeep CJ models, ending 40 years of production of the direct descendant of the famed World War II workhorse.

Three firefighters in the Youngstown Fire Department are promoted by Chief Gerald Kernan. Capt. Hector Colon is promoted to battalion chief, Engineer Robert Hian is elevated to captain and Fireman John Reitner to engineer.

1970: Nearly 10,000 additional strike-idled General Motors Corp. employees in the Mahoning Valley – 2,000 on Lordstown’s Chevrolet van line and 7,600 at the Packard Electric Division in Warren – are returning to work.

The traditional lighting of Youngstown’s Christmas Tree by Mayor Jack C. Hunter will be combined with the annual “Keep Christ in Christmas” program.

Warren Furnitureland opens a two-story, 18,000-foot store across from the Eastwood Mall in Niles.

1960: Four New Castle firemen are injured fighting a $125,000 fire that guts the top two floors of a three-story building in the 100 block of E. Washington St.

A Move by Mahoning County Commissioner John Palermo to shift a portion of Mahoning County’s share of the West Branch Reservoir cost to Trumbull County is being met with vehement opposition by the Trumbull County commissioners.

Mahoning County legislators are expected to give unanimous support 10 a 13-week extension of unemployment compensation to the current 26 weeks during a special session of the General Assembly called by Gov. Michael V. DiSalle.

R.C. Bowers, 72, of 238 Christian Ave., former Hubbard mayor, dies in North Side Hospital. He was mayor from 1935 to 1945 and operated the R.C. Bowers Ford dealership for 39 years.

1935: The Treasury Department in Washington approves $12 million in Works Progress Administration projects, including $390,980 for rebuilding Landsdowne Airport in Youngstown.

Youngstown district mill operations will open December at 60 percent of capacity, with prospects of reaching 70 percent by the end of the month — the highest mark since the beginning of the Depression in 1929.

Betty Carson, English teacher at Struthers High School, is directing the Struthers High School Drama Club’s production of “Stop Thief.”